Thomas Imbach

Thomas Imbach is a Swiss filmmaker and producer based in Zurich. Known for consistently pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, his practice explores the intersection of documentary and fiction. Through a highly personal and experimental audiovisual language, his work challenges traditional narrative structures to investigate themes of time, memory, and everyday reality. Over his career, his films have been widely screened and awarded at major international film festivals.

Nemesis explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich, and the construction of a new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history, and its replacement with total security.