Die Herren, Patric Chiha, Austria, 2005, 52’ + Casa Ugalde, Patric Chiha, France, 2004, 20'

At the «Artist's House» of the Gugging psychiatric hospital near Vienna, fourteen painters live and work. Their writing, often at the centre of their works, inspires this film which questions their singular and moving relationship to schizophrenia, to art and to Austria, marked by memories and built in isolation.

Casa Ugalde, Patric Chiha, France, 2004, 20'

A man finds an old photo album at the flea market. As he looks at the pictures, he invents a story which combines descriptions, fantasies and personal memories. Slowly, he takes the place of the photographer and tells his story, a story of passion, seduction and a lost love.