ARTIST NAME:    Peter Volkart
TITLE:    Terra Incognita
COUNTRY:   Switzerland
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Artist BIO
Peter Volkart was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1957. He studied art and film in New York City. Since 1990, he has worked as a freelance designer and filmmaker.

f.reck@bluewin.ch

Website: www.reckfilm.ch
FILMOGRAPHY
NEWS
Awards: 2005 - Montréal World Film Festival; 2006 - Swiss Film Prize
VIDEO SYNOPSYS
Igor Leschenko, a young physicist from Hermannstadt, dominated headlines in the late 1920s. Leschenko’s experiments made many doubt the validity of the laws of gravity. Terra Incognita is a rare film documentation portraying Leschenko’s hazardous journey to discovering the zero point of gravity.
CREDITS
Directed by: Peter Volkart
Screenplay by: Peter Volkart
Photography by: Hansueli Schenkel
Camera: Hansueli Schenkel
Edited by:
Music by: Volkart and Volkart, Paul Avondet
Cast:
Paul Avondet
Sandra Künzi
Prodution: Franziska Reck, Reck Filmproduktion 2005
Master: Mini DV
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