Event

Friday, 19 September 2025, 18:30 pm

In the company of tentacles

Screening The Deep – Underwater Cinema

Film screening as part of the Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone exhibition
Free admission, no booking required


To accompany the exhibition Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone, Museum Tinguely presents a programme of underwater films. On four evenings, each with its own theme, visitors can look forward to scintillating cinematic deep dives between science and fiction, introduced and curated by the media theorist, curator and writer Matthias Wittmann (Basel/Mainz/Vienna).

 

In the company of tentacles

Surely no other creature is as protean, as agile, as scintillating and as vulnerable as the octopus? Repeatedly rediscovered as performance, colour spectacle and metamorphosis, the octopus has become an ‘in’ animal, thanks in no small part to cinema. Our film programme, therefore, presents the remarkable, skeletonless, eight-armed kraken from three different perspectives: that of experimental, animated and documentary film-making.

 

18:30 pm: Part I
La Pieuvre (F 1928, R: Jean Painlevé, 13 min., silent)
Les Amours de la pieuvre (F/I 1965, R: Jean Painlevé, 13 min., FR/EN Subs)
L’Hippocampe (F 1934, R: Jean Painlevé, 13 min, FR/EN Subs)
© Les Documents Cinématographiques/Jean Painlevé Archives, Paris
Malý Cousteau/The Little Cousteau (Animation, Czech Republic 2014, Jakub Kouřil, 8 Min., silent)
Oh Brother Octopus (D 2017, R: Florian Kunert, 27 Min., ID/EN Subs)
20:30 pm: Part II
Octopus! (two-part documentary/Amazon MGM Studios, GB/USA 2025, R. Niharika Desi, 2 x 40 Min., EN, narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge)
The Future is Wild – Episode 13:The Tentacled Forest (docufiction series, GB/USA/D/AUT 2002, Joanna Adams/Victoria Coules, 25 Min., EN)

 

Snacks and drinks can be purchased during the event.

 

Also part of the event series:

 

03.10.2025, 18:30 pm
>> Deep Time – Oceans & Documentary Visions in a Changing Climate

 

17.10.2025, 18:30 pm
>> Inner Space – Freediving from Obsession to Meditation

 

 

Image caption: Filmstill Ama-San (PT/CH/JP 2016, R: Cláudia Varejão), Copyright ©Vinca Film, Mira Film


Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone
11 June - 2 November 2025

Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone

A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how human beings inhabit the world and how the world, in turn, inhabits us. The comprehensive solo exhibition at Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new video works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of water—a liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate. Reflecting upon its flow and materiality, profundity and politics, its mundane and sacral dimensions, the solo show acts as a kaleidoscope, inviting us to dive deep.


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