CINEMA DEAD OR ALIVE?

An analytical documentation on the making of Alain Tanner's Jonas. Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (seen in the 1977 Festival). The film shows how one of Tanner's sequences is developed, the director discusses his aesthetic and philosophical approach to film making, his attitude to the use of music in the film, and many other matters, while his producer talks about the problems of financing a film of this kind.