Films by Tom Nitsch 

Sailors, Classics and the Walligator

From ´92 through ´95, Tom Nitsch was collecting material during various Mediterranean regattas. The result was an unconventional film with the classics in perfect counterpoint to 'push-button sailing' aboard the ultra-modern cruiser/racer Wallygator. Instead of a narration, this movie is built around a dialogue of sailors, skippers and owners generated from their remarks 'to camera'. Nitsch's genius at selecting music plays its part and the result is something not seen before in this genre - too 'avant garde' for TV - but it won gold at the world´s largest independent film festival in Houston and was declared 'Video of the Year' by the ”Kreuzerabteilung” of DSV.
This homage to boats -old and new -  and the men and women who sail them catches the spirit of the St.Tropez event, the ambience, the philosophies, from what it takes to handle these vessels to the visual joy and beauty of the spectacle.

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