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| Swiss Made 2068 |
(part of: The Development of Necronom IV )
In 1968, Giger created a suit for a biomechanoid humanoid for Freddy Murer's short film Swiss Made 2068,(
see photos above left and right) to be worn by a human. This was Giger's first movie monster and it featured a movie camera mounted into the front of the head of the creature replacing the face. He also created a biomechanoid shell for a small dog to wear as well to go with this suit.
Giger:
The painting Necronom 4 which would later
become the Alien or part of it. it came about partly through a monster
which I had already created before for a half-hour film called Swiss
Made
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| Swiss Made 2068 |
by Freddie Murer. For that film I created a first extraterrestrial
in three dimensions. That was a figure that already had a long head with
a long occiput and one eye was the camera and on its chest there were
two spools of tape and from that there was a kind of microphone to pull
out or a kind of pull out stand. And the whole figure was made from
polyester, it was it was kind of boney and black, like some kind of
armour which merged with the trunk and the arms and legs and a belly
they were in a kind of black leather, they were kind of quilted like for
example let's say like you use for ice hockey where you have these
sausages which they make so that you can bend the arms and legs and you
are at the same time protected from the puck, from any hard shots of
anything like, and in that of style I created this extra terrestrial.
At the same time I created a dog for this film. Unfortunately it
disappeared, Dali wanted to have it and I sent it off and it
disappeared. (From a report of what Giger said in his interview with Alien Evolution)
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| Woman with Child, 1967 |
The creature was inspired by the head of his female biomechanoid in the
drawing Woman with Child from 1967. The main humanoid head has a
mechanical viewing device projecting about a foot ahead of the face of
the humanoid and the back of the head is similar in shape as well.
It always has intrigued me why this Fuchs painting from the fifties is never mentioned concerning Giger's alien:
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I mean, basically is all there. Puzzlingly, even the "Nuba anatomy" that Scott later incorporated to Giger's artwork is already there.
Other Fuchs painting from the same period:
http://beinart.org/modules/PHP-gallery/gallery_ImageView.php?gallery_id=646&image_id=1914
Thanks for this, yes I see the likelihood of this image having inspired Giger, I'll have to get a detailed close up of the image. While I am aware of Fuch's work generally I haven't really seen much of it on the Internet but really all this said by me here is a result of endless digging for things of relevance and perhaps Giger's is not one to shine too much light on the inspirations behind his work and what has been written about his work does rarely give much real insight so I'm really pleased about this as a likelihood in the trail for the source of inspiration. It is strange also how the idea of a Nubian has been something that's floating around as well as Scott had the idea of including Nubians of that kind in an earlier project of his inspired by I suppose the photos of Leni Riefenstahl and one just so happened to show up in a pub in England. I'll make sure that I look at more of Fuchs work from the fifties.
ReplyDeleteOkay, now three works by Fuchs have been added
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