The Meat Basket
Le panier à viande
Switzerland 1966. 16mm, Beta, VHS, b/w, 25 min.
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An ethnographic documentary about a local butchering tradition called the bouchoyage that is being lost. On this consecrated day of hard labor, an itinerant butcher called Tzacaion (usually a peasant) goes from farm to farm to slaughter the pigs with his own tools.
| Director | Jacqueline Veuve, Yves Yersin |
| Photography | Yves Yersin, Igal Nidam |
| Sound | Pierre Delessert |
| Editing | Yves Yersin, Jacqueline Veuve |
| Collaborators | Commentaire: Jacques Chessex |
| Duration | 25 min. |
| Format | 16mm, Beta, VHS, b/w, 24 ips |
| Versions | français |
| Festivals/Prizes | Locarno. Quality award (Swiss Federal Office of Culture). |
| Production | Milos-Films SA, Jacqueline Veuve et Yves Yersin |
| Distribution Switzerland | Aquarius Film Production, CH-1808 Les Monts-de-Corsier Tél. +41 21 921 18 20 – Fax +41 21 921 78 31 E-mail: info@jacquelineveuve.com – send a message |