Jean-Jacques Rousseau inspires the ECAL/HEAD Master in Cinema

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau inspires the ECAL/HEAD Master in Cinema

On the occasion of the reopening of the Maison de Rousseau et de la Littérature (MRL) in Geneva on April 21, 2021, students of the ECAL/HEAD Master's degree in Cinema are presenting a series of films as part of the Parcours Rousseau, which was designed by the Zurich architect Tristan Kobler of the Holzer Kobler office and co-written by two Rousseau specialists - Martin Rueff and Guillaume Chenevière.

Collaboration (2021)

On the occasion of the reopening of the Maison de Rousseau et de la Littérature (MRL) in Geneva on April 21, 2021, students of the ECAL/HEAD (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne/Haute école d'art et de design Genève) Master's degree in Cinema are presenting a series of films as part of the Parcours Rousseau, which was designed by the Zurich architect Tristan Kobler of the Holzer Kobler office and co-written by two Rousseau specialists - Martin Rueff and Guillaume Chenevière.

This journey perpetuates and updates the thought of the famous Swiss philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by confronting it with the challenges of our time: education, nature and environment, secularism, citizenship, happiness.

From September 2020 to January 2021, fifteen students of the ECAL/HEAD Master of Cinema - five in Directing, three in Scriptwriting, four in Sound, three in Editing - have taken up the major challenge of bringing together in a coherent way the historical and literary dimension of Jean-Jacques Rousseau with a personal and creative approach through filmic objects (documentary, fiction, montage film, archive film...). Each participant took part in the conception, direction and post-production of the films - mixing teams and roles (direction, editing, sound, script...). Eleven works are thus to be discovered within the framework of the course.

CITATIONS VIVANTES
Réalisation et image: Marie Chemin
Montage: Jiahui Huang
Son: Léa Celestine Bernasconi

VISAGES MULTIPLES
Réalisation: Marie Chemin
Montage: Jiahui Huang

SANS TITRE
Réalisation: Rokhaya Balde& Balthus Kiss
Montage: Antoine Flahaut

BANANA
Réalisation: Valentina Shasivari
Montage: Selin Dettwiler

NATURE MORTE
Réalisation: Valentina Shasivari
Image: Selin Dettwiler
Montage: Antoine Flahaut
Son et montage son: Marine Maye & Yatoni Roy Cantu

DAENA
Réalisation: Leopold Helbich
Image: Matthias Joulaud
Montage: Jiahui Huang & Leopold Helbich

RETOUR EN VILLE
Réalisation: Michail Galanopoulos
Scénario: Victor Comte
Caméra: Matthias Joulaud
Montage: Selin Dettwiler
Son: Massimo Del Gaudio

VILLE CONTRE NATURE
Réalisation: Michail Galanopoulos
Montage: Antoine Flahaut

LES CHARMETTES (OU LE BONHEUR)
Réalisation et montage: Matthias Joulaud

LES IGNIFUGES
Réalisation, image et montage: Matthias Joulaud

PROMENADES
Réalisation: Matthias Joulaud
Son: Massimo Del Gaudio & Marine Maye & Yatoni Roy Cantu

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Horaires:

Mardi–Dimanche, 11h–17h30

Maison de Rousseau et de la littérature (MRL)
Grand-Rue 40
1204 Genève
http://www.m-r-l.ch

 

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