Swiss filmmaker Hannes Schüpbach's delicate silent films use layered images and impressionistic camerawork to sensually render everyday objects, familiar people, and significant moments. This program traces the evolution of his use of light and color, at times emphasizing abstraction, always evoking interior states. Portrait mariage (2000, 9 mins) chronicles the wedding of friends, and while it retains elements of home movies in its sense of spontaneity and intimacy, the emphasis is on gesture and detail, and on creating connections between images. Schüpbach characterizes Spin (2001, 12 mins) as “turning towards the interior”; its beautiful abstract images and gliding camera movement combine with a portrait of his mother to suggest the poignancy of passing time. Toccata (2002, 28 mins), Schüpbach's most complex and exquisite film, is described by him as “the surroundings meet the eye.” The title comes from tocco, which means variously to touch, a small quantity, a single brush stroke in painting, the striking of a bell or piano keys. As in his other work, Schüpbach is interested in the possibility of combining familiar images abstractly so they function metaphorically and emotionally, yet retain their identity as images, fascinating in and of themselves.