Director of
TOTENTANZ
Pablo Sigg (b.1974, Mexico). Film director, founder of the Mexican-Swiss production office SIGGFILM. 2009-2012: produces, writes and directs Der Wille zur Macht, a documentary about the last survivors of the Aryan colony Nueva Germania in the Paraguayan jungle. Premiere in 2013 in Germany at the Dresden State Theatre, despite protests from local ultra-right wing groups. 2012-2014: produces, writes and directs I, of whom I know nothing, a film about Samuel Beckett and his British publisher John Calder. The legendary Beckett actress Billie Whitelaw appears for the last time on screen.
2011-2024: produces, writes and directs the fiction saga Lamaland, a film trilogy starring Friedrich and Max Josef Schweikhart, two descendants of the colony founded in 1886 by Friedrich Nietzsche’s sister at the southern end of the Amazon rainforest. World Premiere of TOTENTANZ at the Viennale 2023.
Films: 134 EXHIBITS (2009, K), WHAT AN EXCELLENT DAY FOR AN EXORCISM (2010), DER WILLE ZUR MACHT (2013), I, OF WHOM I KNOW NOTHING (2014), LAMALAND (TEIL 1) (2018)