• 12.2.2025

    Early 2025 Update

    A bit of news before Spring comes.

    After completing last years New Values series in coproduction with the Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik, Dominic Oppliger, Jessica Huber and Kim Noble, thoughts turn to this years projects.

    For those who missed it or for those who just want to hear it again, our backstage recording of Kim Noble’s Airline Pilot Song from New Values 3 - The Call Of The Wild / Ruf der Wild­nis is now to be found online here.

    New Creation 2025
    I am currently researching a new project  which will premiere at Gessnerallee Zurich in December 2025. This will be a new performance piece with live music, as yet untitled but with an exciting group of collaborators. I will be undertaking various travels in support of this project, revisiting some distant friends too. I keep coming back to the opening lines of Dicken’s A Tale Of Two Cities:

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us,we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way  More news as it happens and things hopefully start to become clearer...

    Bagger Drama
    After picking up prizes at San Sebastian and Max Ophüls Preis Film Festivals, Piet Baumgartner’s Bagger Drama with yours truly in a leading role will open in Swiss and Spanish cinemas this spring.
    Swiss cinema start is planned for 1.5.25. More Info here

    Social Media etc..
    I have left Instagram. I will be updating my website more regularly and sending 4 newsletters a year. Otherwise come and find me over on Mastadon here

    Other links to things here

    Other than that, a sound/listening project with Dominic Oppliger, Julia Kubik and Sebastian Steffen is also slowly cooking..

    Be good to each other, support each other - these are trying times..

    Phil x