VOICES WINTERSONG is astonishing and multifaceted: Interview, video clip and experiment. Besides that, a travel movie, concert film and a portrait. Everything merges into a convincing image of a musician, who is equally solemn and unconfident. In a better world, music television would look like this. Jörg Adolph There are many reasons to like this film. Example: Because it's crafted carefully, altogether with affection. Simple, but rich in ideas. Just as well as the songs, which are the subjects of the film. Because the filmmakers create an intimate closeness to the world of their melancholic «star», without being indiscreet. Because we get to know a singer who loves small towns, who hates to play in front of audiences. Who is not writing songs to please but to «give his feelings a soundtrack». Because we get to hear one of the most touching declarations of love for a woman - and above all we believe it. Because of one long scene, where there is only strumming on an out of tune piano. Because of the slowness and quietness that ropes us in - without getting sleepy at all... Peter Liechti WINTERSONG is not, in the first place, what you would generally expect of a music film. It's a journey into the inside of a musician. I'm taken on a journey through places, regions, biographical stages, which are the foundations of the music that envelops us. The friction or dissonance between the inner soul and outer world forms the music of a person who expresses himself because he has to. It is the unconditional, almost obsessive core located in Chris Hooson that is driving the music. The ethereal super8 pictures, which don't want to explain anything, what I not see or hear by myself concentrates to a spirit that defines the film and that let's us sometimes see into a man's hell. Or how Hooson puts it into his own terms: «you are outside, planting things in the garden, while life falls apart». Nicolas Humbert A clear vision of a film that integrates with both the inner spirit and outer reality of it's subject. As though the filmmakers and the musicians were all brothers cut from the same cloth. Peter Mettler With large sensitivity the young directors Benny Jaberg and Pascal Hofmann introduce us to the creative universe of Chris Hooson, singer and songwriter of the English Band Dakota Suite. The way in which they emphasize the music and poetry allows the audience a real insight into the creative process of an anguished but extremely inspired author. On the evidence of this school film, we can forecast a promising future. Special mention, «visions du réel» 2006, International Film Festival, Nyon