FILM STUDIES
Workshop Shitty Rigs
Workshop led by Michael William Farino, Jonathan Ricardo Argudo and Herbert Mayer and given to students in the Bachelor's degree programmes in Cinema and Industrial Design.
FILM STUDIES
Workshop with Benoît Dervaux
by Noé Bregnard, Eva Rust, Victor Durand Matinella, Lou Haenggi, Samuel Harari, Hana Magimel, Nolan Grando, Mileny Viera de Andrade, Zélia Zanone
Second-year Bachelor's students attended a workshop with Belgian cinematographer Benoît Dervaux, known for his work on the Dardenne brothers' films. He was responsible for the cinematography on the Swiss films Laissez-moi by Maxime Rappaz (2023) and À bras-le-corps by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (2025).
FILM STUDIES
FILM STUDIES
MASTERCLASS THIERRY DE PERETTI
Meeting with Thierry de Peretti, French actor, director and stage director
FINE ARTS
FILM STUDIES
FINE ARTS
FILM STUDIES
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
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.
FILM STUDIES
«Heidi en Chine», une affaire de famille
Diplômé de l'ECAL en 2002 Après deux documentaires remarqués ( Le Mariage en Afrique et Des Bleus dans la police ), il décidait en 2009 de filmer l’installation en Chine d’une famille fribourgeoise, restant sagement derrière sa caméra, en observateur, comme pour éviter de devoir affronter lui-même cette immersion dans un pays dont il est, qu’il le veuille ou non, issu. C’est alors, pour la première fois, qu’il a ressenti le besoin de partir à la découverte de ses racines. Car ne dit-on pas qu’il est impossible de savoir où l’on va si on ne sait pas d’où l’on vient?
FILM STUDIES
ECAL Cinema book 2019
FILM STUDIES
ECAL book 2018
FILM STUDIES
Diplomas Screening 2017
FILM STUDIES
Diplomas Screening 2016
At the Swiss Film Archive
FILM STUDIES
Summer University Montréal
FILM STUDIES
Camera workshop with Barbet Schroeder
FILM STUDIES
Istanbul In & Out
with Lionel Baier, Kaveh Bakhtiari
The first year Bachelor Cinema class of ECAL went round Istanbul during a whole week, accompanied by the director Kaveh Bakhtiari.