''Electroboy'' is a 2014 Swiss

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

Marcel Gisler Marcel Gisler (born 18 March 1960) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. Life Marcel Gisler was raised in the Canton of St. Gallen. Since 1981 he lives in Berlin and studied Theatre studies and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin w ...

about the life of Florian Burkhardt, alias

Electroboy Electroboy (born Florian Burkhardt 13 March 1974) is a Swiss Model (person), model, author, conceptioner, graphic designer, electronic musician and music producer. He lives in Berlin. Electroboy produces electronic trash-pop and electroclash with ...

, model, snowboard pioneer, advertiser, author, party organizer and composer during the 1990s, who now suffers from a generalized anxiety.

Production

The documentary was shot in Switzerland, Germany, India and the United States between April and July 2013. It premiered at

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

. It was released in Swiss cinemas in November 2014 and in German and Austrian cinemas in November 2015.

Reception

The Hollywood Reporter ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...

researcher Boyd van Hoeij says about the film: "A fascinating look at a complex human being’s many up and downs" and "Instead of becoming a long list of occurrences, accomplishments, reinventions and psychological challenges and transformations, the film naturally brings all these elements together to paint a picture of an extremely complex human being ..who had to try and find out the hard way who he was and what he wanted out of life." Madeleine Hirsiger from

says about the film: "...excellently and densely edited portrait leads the spectator into an anxiety from which there is no escape."

Awards

* Swiss Film Award 2015: Best Documentary and Best Editing * Zurich Film Prize 2014 * International Documentary Film Festival Munich 2015: Audience Award * Nomination for the Swiss Film Award 2015: Best Score * Selection for the European Film Award 2015: Best Documentary

References

External links

* * 2014 films 2014 documentary films Swiss documentary films 2010s English-language films 2010s German-language films Swiss German-language films 2014 multilingual films Swiss multilingual films {{Switzerland-film-stub