FILM STUDIES
Balthus Kiss – In Vitro (Screenplay)
with Alice Winocour, Nadine Lamari, Michel Spinoza
Through Caillou’s point of view, In Vitro enables us to look at the world as through a broken mirror. Which reflection should we trust?
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Michail Galanopoulos – The Parade (Direction)
with Stéphane Batut
A day in the life of a group of high school students in Athens, Greece, during the day of the national military parade.
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Valentina Shasivari – Mountain Flesh (Direction)
with Jacqueline Zünd
The summer idyll is disturbed by recurring noises while a mountain village loses its foundations.
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Antoine Flahaut – The Parade (Editing)
with Gion Reto Killias
The editing of this film was a meticulous balancing act, consisting less of searching for clean and sophisticated cuts than of finding for each scene the brutality, the power, the troubled swirl of emotions that inhabit this group of teenagers fleeing through the streets of Athens.
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Selin Dettwiler – Ramboy (Editing)
with Gion Reto Killias
On Achill Island, on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland, Cian hopes to spend his summer vacation playing soccer with his friends. But his grandfather Martin reckons the time has come to introduce him to farm work in order to pass on his craft to the next generation.
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Massimo Del Gaudio – Le défilé (Sound)
with Nathalie Vidal
I worked on Michail Galanopoulos’ graduation film: Le défilé. I went to Greece in November 2021 to work on the film as sound recordist and location mixer. I then worked on the post production as sound editor, sound designer and mixer.
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Léa Célestine Bernasconi – The mountains are still growing (Sound)
with Nathalie Vidal
My job was to create the soundtrack for this film from sound recording to mixing and editing.
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Yatoni Roy Cantu – Ramboy (Sound)
with Nathalie Vidal
Ramboy provided me with the opportunity to look after the whole sound process of a film, from the sound recording to the music, the editing and the mixing. It was a real adventure.
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Matthias Joulaud – Ramboy (Direction)
with Jacqueline Zünd
Ramboy is a 30-minute documentary short film, the result of work done with a family of sheep farmers on an Irish island. Being immersed for several months in this island allowed me to weave strong links and to offer a documentary which condenses at the same time problems related to the adolescence of a young boy, and to the hard social and economic reality of a trade whose traditions are under threat.
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Jiahui Huang – The mountains are still growing (Editing)
with Gion Reto Killias
Laurence, a Parisian in her fifties, is spending a few days in an isolated holiday cottage in southern France. There she meets Antoine, the young owner of the place. Antoine is a little boorish and macho and tries to seduce her. But Laurence is there for a specific purpose: to give him a letter containing a secret.
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Victor Comte – Carne (Screenplay)
with Nadine Lamari, Alice Winocour, Michel Spinoza
This is the first draft of a feature film script, written over the two years of the MA programme.
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Rokhaya Balde – La passion d'Aline (Screenplay)
with Nadine Lamari, Alice Winocour, Michel Spinoza
My graduation project is a version 1.0 of a feature film script on the life of Aline Sitoé Diatta. Aline is a heroine of the Senegalese resistance and particularly of Casamance against French colonisation in the 1920s and 1940s.
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Marie Chemin – The mountains are still growing (Direction)
with Stéphane Batut
Laurence, a Parisian in her fifties, is spending a few days in an isolated holiday cottage in southern France. There she meets Antoine, the young owner of the place. Antoine is a little boorish and macho and tries to seduce her. But Laurence is there for a specific purpose: to give him a letter containing a secret.
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Leopold Helbich Frey – The Scent of Burning Time (Direction)
with Stéphane Batut
Three people searching for a better future on an island are confronted with the climate catastrophe.
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Marine Maye – Mountain Flesh (Sound)
with Nathalie Vidal
The summer idyll is disturbed by recurring noises while a mountain village loses its foundations.
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Maison Rousseau mandate
Production and shooting of films for the mandate of the Maison Rousseau & Littérature, Geneva. The students of the Master Cinéma were supervised by the director Lionel Rupp.
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Mandate for the Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Genève
The Maison Rousseau et Littérature (MLR) in Geneva commissioned the ECAL/HEAD Master in Cinema to produce the audiovisual works for the museum, which reopened its doors in the old town of Geneva after a period of restructuring in Spring 2021.
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Jury Réseau Cinéma CH
Participation of Master Cinema students Léa Célestine Bernasconi and Leopold Helbich Frey in the Jury of the Réseau Cinéma CH during the 35th edition of the Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF)
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Video direction
by Matthias Joulaud, Michail Galanopoulos, Antoine Flahaut
Video of the concert "Shawati" by Bedouin Burger, the Ensemble Dīwan and the students of HEM.
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Filmmaking workshop
with Danielle Lessovitz
A 2-weeks filmmaking workshop led by the American director and scriptwriter Danielle Lessovitz with the students of the Master in Film - major direction and scriptwriting.
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Actors' Direction Workshop
with Fulvio Bernasconi
Actors' Direction Workshop, led by the Swiss filmmaker Fulvio Bernasconi, in collaboration with the acting students of Les Teintureries, theatre school in Lausanne.
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Master Cinema - Major in Sound
with Felix Blume
Sound creation workshop for the Master Cinema students - Major in Sound - directed by Felix Blume, sound artist and sound engineer.
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Sound performance
Creation by Ensemble Vide, with the Master Cinema students, in coproduction with Ensemble Contrechamps, Geneva.
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Workshop Rousseau mandate
Study trip of the Master in Film students in Val de Travers, on the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, to work on the first stages of the Mandate proposed by the MLR - Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Geneva.
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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.
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Lucas Rubio Martinez – Europa (direction)
by Lucas Rubio Martinez
Pedro, working in Switzerland, must take one cow to the slaughterhouse at the same time his mother dies in Spain. lucadelfresno@gmail.com
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Raphaël Meyer – La Sentinelle (screenplay)
by Raphaël Meyer
France. 2016. Operation Sentinel. One step. Two steps. Look right. Look left. Mya has just turned 18 and is walking in her uniform. Rifle against her breast. Barrel facing down. Her finger on the stock, just above the trigger. One more step. Two more steps. Look right. Look left. Mya is on patrol. Mya waits. For something. For someone. At last.
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Vuk Vukmanovic – Soraya Luna (sound)
by Vuk Vukmanovic
A cinematographic necromancy calls the spectres of the past: by the means of VHS find the spectator submerges into the Berlin family's intimate play of the author's childhood. iamvuk@gmail.com https://www.iamvuk.com
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Paul Choquet – Tous les chemins (direction)
by Paul Choquet
A group of people is searching for an old lady who got lost in the Vaud countryside. paulchoquet@gmail.com
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Sarah Rathgeb – Stray (direction)
by Sarah Rathgeb
Joana has just moved in with her boyfriend and her dog Boris. This is an important step in their relationship, a life-changing step.In their new apartment they have everything they need for their future together: except a mattress. sarah.rathgeb@hotmail.com
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Elisa Gómez Alvarez – Soraya Luna (direction)
with Pedro Pinho
A cinematographic necromancy calls the spectres of the past: by the means of VHS find the spectator submerges into the Berlin family's intimate play of the author's childhood. gomezalvarez@gmx.de http://www.elisagomezalvarez.com
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Noémie Guibal – Taking the desert (direction)
by Noémie Guibal
Cevennes, 1702. In a totalitarian political state, four men take up arms.
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Olivia Frey – Ecce homo (editing)
by Olivia Frey
Juan Antonio finds his father who is back home after a long absence. There, during the preparation of the most important religious festival of the city : the Ecce homo; father and son go to share in solitude, their hatreds for each other. oliviaandreafrey@googlemail.com
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Nina Defontaine – Clémente (direction)
by Nina Defontaine
The portrait of Monique (my grandmother) as i accompany her in the great sorting of her objects (her ghosts) at her family house (Clémente). ninadefontaine@gmail.com https://cargocollective.com/ninaphotographies/cinematographie
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Ketsia Stocker – Europa (production)
by Ketsia Stocker
Pedro, working in Switzerland, must take one cow to the slaughterhouse at the same time his mother dies in Spain. ketsia.stocker@gmail.com
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Malou Briand – Dalia (screenplay)
by Malou Briand
From the 2007 presidential elections to the emergence of the #MeToo movement, from the suburbs to the French capital, “Dalia” traces the journey of a young woman in the contemporary world. It is a story of friendship and of upward social mobility. maloubriand@gmail.com
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Santiago Chacón – Ecce homo (direction)
with Claire Burger, Rachel Lang
Juan Antonio finds his father who is back home after a long absence. There, during the preparation of the most important religious festival of the city : the Ecce homo; father and son go to share in solitude, their hatreds for each other. santichacon91@gmail.com
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Final Jury Master Cinema 2020
The diploma Jury of the Master Cinema 2018-20.
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Dialogue with Pauline
A project by Ensemble Vide . Video by Santiago Chacón (image) and Vuk Vukmanovic (sound and editing) - Master Cinema students
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"I Dreamed of El Zahir"
by Vuk Vukmanovic
"I Dreamed of El Zahir" , sound work by Vuk Vukmanovic, student of Master Cinéma - major Sound, during the Grand Voyage in Dakar, Senegal. Inspired by the short story "El Zahir" by Jorge Luis Borges.
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Shooting of the web-series "Bâtards"
On the set of the web-series "Bâtards" directed by Malou Briand and Raphaël Meyer, students of Master Cinéma- major scriptwriting. The project won the 3rd edition of the Fantastic Web Contest at NIFFF 2019. Produced by Box Productions and RTS.
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Workshop casting and acting with Guillaume Brac
with Guillaume Brac
Workshop casting and acting with Guillaume Brac, filmmaker, Julia Perazzini and Antonin Schopfer, actors
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Master cinéma - Production
Ketsia Stocker, student in Master Cinema - major Production, on the set of the series "Bulle" by Anne Deluz, 2019 (prod. Intermezzo Films/RTS)
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Cinema Master - major Sound
Vuk Vukmanović, student in Master cinema - major Sound, on the set of "Red Jungle" by Juan José Lozano and Zoltán Horváth, 2019 (prod. Intermezzo Films; Dolce Vita Films; Nadasdy Films & Tchack)
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Collaboration with Fondation Opale
by Santiago Chacon, Paul Choquet, Nina Defontaine, Elisa Gomez Alvarez, Noémie Guibal, Sarah Rathgeb, Vuk Vukmanovic, Lucas del Fresno
In the framework of the exhibition Before Time Began , Fondation Opale gave “carte blanche” to the students of the Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD to share their cinematic interpretation of contemporary Aboriginal art though seven short films.
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Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2019
Selection of Arena by Khadyja Mahfou Aidara, Mamadou Sané, Alarba Bousso, Malou Briand , Raphaël Meyer, Oumy Sarr Ndoye (Senegal, Switzerland), 2019 at the School Day in Winterhur. Made in the frame of the Master Cinema Grand Voyage in Dakar, Senegal, in collaboration with Alain Gomis.
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Interview with Lionel Baier
Mise au point , 19.05.2019, 20h18
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Sayaka Mizuno – The invisible sanctuary
by Sayaka Mizuno
In Kyoto, the former imperial capital of Japan, Masayo Fujio and Nobuko Takahashi narrates the painful account of their life. Through their stories, mingled with that of the district, Suujin, the past of an invisible Japanese community that is still discriminated against today gradually surfaces again.
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Jorge Cadena – Sister Jarariju
by Jorge Cadena
In the middle of an austere landscape contaminated by a coal mine in northern Colombia, Viviana and Yandris, two teenage sisters of the Wayuu ethnic group, discover their traditions through ancestral rituals. At the death of their father and, in an act of audacity and courage, the sisters Jarariju leave their country.
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Robin Mognetti – We’ve not like spiders nets from grief’s saliv.
by Robin Mognetti
Suffering from insomnia, Nina, a young woman leaves Paris to return in Provence, in his hometown. Following the unexplained disappearance of his sister, stranges phenomena take place and seem to be addressed to her. One night, Nina sees something, an apparition that will lead her in her sister's footsteps.