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Sunday Sessions: Nemesis

Directed by: Thomas Imbach
Runtime: 2hr 11min Year: 2020
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Directed by: Thomas Imbach
Runtime: 2hr 11min Year: 2020
Country: Switzerland
Topics: Personal Stories
Last Screened: Sun 13th Mar 2022

Acclaimed Swiss filmmaker Thomas Imbach observers the destruction of Zürich's old train station from his bedroom window. In its place, a new detention centre rises.

The old freight station in Zürich is being torn down, to be replaced with a new building: a prison and deportation centre. Acclaimed Swiss filmmaker Thomas Imbach spent seven years observing this process from his bedroom window.

From his unique vantage point, he wrings life and beauty from the restless movement of machinery, the jackhammers, the cranes, the collapses, and the workers engaged in deconstruction. As the new detention centre grows in its place, the testimonies of newly arrived immigrants start to emerge.