Peter Liechti film retrospective  

The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to Eastern Switzerland is “Voice Crack”, the “everyday household electronics” duo of Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechti’s vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress. “Kick That Habit” is a short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage of “Voice Crack” rehearsals and concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the fall and winter landscape of the area between Alpstein and the Bodensee.