Dada Changed My Life Click the picture to view the large image.

   The film has been made with the voluntary collaboration of many people and shot in six different languages. The film's introduction includes Dada´s history and goes on to present the performances and events which took place in the Cabaret Voltaire during the two months in which the artists occupied the house, mixed with fake interviews relating to the theme of Dada and the Cabaret Voltaire. The idea came in part from the Foundation Kroesus as a tribute to Dada: the perfect pretext for making fun of art, sex, religion, politics and society.

   Not only has the film already won a prize in an international festival, the DV AWARDS 2003 in Utah (www.dvawards.com), for best documentary but the Cabaret Voltaire is finally going to be the cultural space which the artists were fighting for. The City of Zürich and the Swatch Group (the watch-making company) have donated money and rented the Cabaret from its original owner Rentenanstalt (the Swiss Re-insurance company) creating the possibility of a temporary exhibit of the greatest collection of Dada art, lent by the Kunsthaus. This, as well as the documentary itself, has undoubtedly saved the Cabaret Voltaire.

   The film's world premiere is on the 6th of September at the Bienal de Valencia, Spain. In Spain, the film crew is also in contact with the Guggenheim (Bilbao) and the Reina Sofía (Madrid) Museums to project the documentary there. It has recently been chosen for the Official Selection at the Festival Internacional de Cine Digital Isla de la Palma, Canaria. In New York they are in contact with the Anthology Film Archives, Millennium, Ocularis, the Pioneer Theater; the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema plans to show the work along with other Dada films, music and events. In Mexico DF, el Centro de la Imagen is interested too. The film is going to be a complete success and they are managing to move it around the world.