User:Ⲩ.Ⲅ./Hugo Jaeggi – Photographer: The Dream is often real enough

Hugo Jaeggi – Photographer: The Dream is often real enough is a documentary by Matthias Leupold and Jérôme Depierre about the Swiss photographer Hugo Jaeggi.

The film focuses on Jaeggi′s photography art: the artist describes his pictures and talks about their creation. Martin Gasser, the curator of the artist′a Nachlass at the Swiss Photo Foundation, is interviewed. Jaeggi′s friend Peter Jaeggi, a Swiss journalist, is also interviewed. The title of the film refers to the ″visually powerful dreams″ that are characteristic of Jaeggi′s photographs: ″Insights into the emotional world with which he experiences family relationships and abysses in his life and continually relapses.″

Depierre and Leupold's intention was to remember Jaeggi′s photographic legacy. The photographer was known for capturing the soul of the people he photographed with a sensitive documentary eye. The film shows how Jaeggi engages with people and situations in order to create photographs that tell the “unheard”.

The film premiered on May 24, 2019 in Venice, Los Angeles and was shown on Swiss television and in program cinemas.