FILM STUDIES
Documentary film workshop with Alessandro Comodin
with Alessandro Comodin
The 2024 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin.
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Camille Anker – Once there was a storm (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
In the passenger seat, a young woman waits for the end of the road unfolding beyond the window.
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Pol Barrelet – Leave the hive (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Mila is tired of living in this small town and dreams of elsewhere. But leaving everything behind means even her closest friends.
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Mégane Brügger – Mom dances (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
What remains of a mother after years of domestic violence? What remains of her body, her dignity and her strength? Surely words, memory and a few dance steps that can still be passed down.
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Arsène Fragnière – Cartilage (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
At the end of the night, Gaël will abandon his group of friends. As the evening progresses, however, they realize that something is wrong.
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Benjamin Eggenberger – The Stork's Lair (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
An alienating love between two beings who wish to have a child but cannot.
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Maria Luiza Vaz – Where were you at night? (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Clara is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives alone with her mother in a small isolated house in the forest. Clara is full of vitality, but her depressive mother prevents her from breaking free. An encounter with a mysterious boy in the forest leads Clara to transgress her daily life.
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Hervé Ossent – The hole (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Guillaume, a young pig farmer, discovers that his father is indulging in bestiality.
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Donika Gashi – La vie de Lucy (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Lucy is a young Cro-Magnon woman, a descendant of Lucy the Australopithecus, who lives in a pre-historic, Stone Age, tribe.
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Loïc Pidoux – Betelgeuse (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Three young artists search for their place in the world, under the glow of supernova remnants.
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Matteo Friberg – Death to the hunchbacks (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Knight Borboron is poisoned and wants to apologize to Hildegund before dying.
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Naïla Ebinger – Cartilage (Direction)
with Denis Jutzeler
For my diploma project, I did the cinematography for the bachelor film of my classmate Arsène Fragnière: Cartilage.
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Léa Favre – Who goes hunting... (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Today, Lea is going in search of a subject for a documentary film. When she believes she's finally caught her prey, the roles end up being reversed. The hunter becomes the hunted.
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Fiction film workshop with Carmen Jaquier
with Carmen Jaquier
The 2023 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss director Carmen Jaquier.
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Fiction film workshop with Lionel Baier
with Lionel Baier
The 2023 fiction film workshop for 1st year students was lead by Lionel Baier.
FINE ARTS
FILM STUDIES
FINE ARTS
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Archive as a Creative Act: The Absolute Cinema of Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos Utopia
with François Bovier
Artists who produce archives from their own work approach archival activity as a creative gesture: here, the archive literally becomes a work of art. In parallel with the “archival impulse” that has run through contemporary art since the 1960s, this research project examines the “performative agency” of archives when they are constituted from “image acts”. The selected corpus is based on an extremely singular case, the cinematographic work of Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) and the Temenos archives.
FILM STUDIES
Rémi Molleyres – The wild waltz (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Joseph discovers that Félicie, his fiancée, just killed her uncle and has decided to run away. A whole life collapses for the young couple.
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Jay Holdener – There were cowboys (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Daniel back from the USA, is given a mission by a ghostly Cowboy: to steal a Chevy El Camino.
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Ilan Dubi – Before ocean (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Léon has a tough night as he runs away from home to join Olivia on her journey to the ocean.
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Ilù Seydoux – Before ocean (Sound)
with Fanny Martin
My diploma work in sound engineering involved recording and sound editing the film Before ocean, directed by Ilan Dubi.
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Adrien Beroud – Before ocean (Scriptwriting)
with Antoine Russbach
Before being adapted into a short film, "Aire de Jeux" is my Bachelor project: a feature film script, a satirical comedy in the world of contemporary theatre.
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Giulia Goy – Rose on the farm (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Rose is a young filmmaker who's looking for a job. She decides to go on a course to retrain as a farmer. This is an inceptive story that questions our relationship with the land, with art, as well as the role of filmmakers as observers of our world.
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Remo Corazza – Satellites never fall from the sky (Photography)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
My diploma work consisted in being the cinematographer on the film Satellites never fall from the sky, which I co-directed with Matias Carlier, Ecal alumni in cinema, class of 2022.
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César Cadène – Before ocean (Photography)
with Agnès Godard
My ECAL graduation project involved making the photography of the film "Before the Ocean," written and directed by Ilan Dubi, a student director. Inspired by the cinema of the Safdie brothers and John Cassavetes, this film was a real technical and creative challenge.
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Marcello Balzaretti – There were cowboys (Photography)
with Agnès Godard
Infinitely disappointed by his recent pilgrimage to the USA for which he had great expectations, Daniel, back in Switzerland, goes back to his daily routine. One day appears before him a ghostly cowboy, giving him a mission: to steal a Chevy El Camino.
FILM STUDIES
Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac
with Guillaume Brac, Karen Benainous, Marie-Eve Hildbrand
2nd year students took part in a documentary workshop led by Guillaume Brac, on the theme of friendship.
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1st year Documentary Workshop
with Benoit Rossel, Karin Sudan
1st year students took part in a documentary workshop led by Benoit Rossel, on the theme of the interview.
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Fiction film workshop with Thierry de Peretti
with Thierry de Peretti, Claire Mathon, Marion Monnier
The 2022 fiction film workshop was lead by Thierry de Peretti.
FILM STUDIES
Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac
with Guillaume Brac
The 2022 documentary workshop was lead by Guillaume Brac. In partnership with the Lausanne Sport!
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Workshop Heidi News
with Benoit Rossel, Arthur Lecoeur
Heïdi News asked the Ecal film department to create ten films based on a series of articles on the theme of food. The students had to make very short films of two to three minutes that could be broadcast on the newspaper's website and social networks.
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Dario Willommet – Spiders in the heart (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
My diploma project consisted in accompanying the production of a short fiction film as a cinematographer. I was in charge of the camera and the lighting on the set.
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Alice Denyse Matthey-Jonais – Les mouches de Beni (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
Beni, a young woman with bipolar disorder, forms a musical friendship with her 65-year-old neighbour Gégé.
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Pierre Daendliker – Drifting Away (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
For my end-of-study work, I had to design the photography for a graduation film.
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Olivia Calcaterra – The wonderful pain of the wild Broom (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
In the desert of southern Spain, a film designed to bring together animal and human emotions through the trauma of abandonment.
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Laurine Joyeux – Les mouches de Beni (Script supervisor)
with Julie Lupo
As a script supervisor, I worked with the director on her film, from the writing stage to the shooting.
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Yan Ciszewski – The great disappointement (Screenplay)
with Emmanuel Bourdieu
Two women come down from the top of a mountain, following a great disappointment.
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Marion Reymond – Drifiting away (Direction)
with Valentina Novati, Stéphane Demoustier
A young caregiver uses her imagination to cope with the mourning of her mother and to escape from the nursing home where she works.
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Solène Mercier – Les mouches de Beni (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
For my degree, I did the photography of the short film Les mouches de Beni, directed by Alice-Denyse Matthey.
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Loris Theurillat – The wonderful pain of the wild Broom (Photography)
with Céline Bozon
Strongly attracted to cinematography in documentaries, I did the photography for Olivia Calcaterra’s short documentary film for her degree.
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Keerthigan Sivakumar – Doosra
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Vinoth, a refugee, is looking for a volunteer activity to escape his loneliness, but no one is willing to accept his help.
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Avril Lehmann – The Heiresses
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Luna returns to the family home where still lives her younger sister, Diana. Diana has been living alone in this large, dilapidated house since the death of their father.
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Yael Vallotton – Sleeping Water
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
In the small kitchen of a family home, two women in their fourties are chatting. Out of the blue, one of them kisses the other.
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Charlène Girel – Outside (Direction)
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
It is raining in the park. Natacha and her son Eli are looking for a shelter for the night. Walter wanders alone with his guitar.
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Sebastián Friedmann – Being a ghost
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Serge discovers what being a ghost is like but Martial, an old spirit, prevents him from having fun.
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Gabriel Colban – Balthazar and Madalena
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
In the midst of an aerobatic flight, a canonball woman meets a trapeze artist. A haunted love story.
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Axel Bezençon – Being a ghost (Editing)
by Axel Bezençon
Serge discovers what being a ghost is like but Martial, an old spirit, prevents him from having fun.
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Michaela Theus – Dehors (Photography)
with Josée Deshaies
It is raining in the park. Natacha and her son Eli are looking for a shelter for the night. Walter wanders alone with his guitar.
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Elias Ben Khalifa – We are the others
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Karim and Adin are childhood friends. They haven't seen each other for a long time and get together for a drink to make up for lost time.
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Alexandre Brulé – The new millenium
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
On the eve of Y2K, Christine finally introduces her lover, Mina, to her parents. The evening promises to be strange.
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Matias Carlier – Fever
with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Two young skateboarders decide to go to a party, their evening gets complicated.