FILM STUDIES
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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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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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Guillaume, a young pig farmer, discovers that his father is indulging in bestiality.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
An alienating love between two beings who wish to have a child but cannot.
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with Valentina Novati, Héléna Klotz
Knight Borboron is poisoned and wants to apologize to Hildegund before dying.
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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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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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with Alessandro Comodin
The 2024 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin.
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with Carmen Jaquier
The 2023 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss director Carmen Jaquier.
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with Lionel Baier
The 2023 fiction film workshop for 1st year students was lead by Lionel Baier.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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with Thierry de Peretti, Claire Mathon, Marion Monnier
The 2022 fiction film workshop was lead by Thierry de Peretti.
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with Guillaume Brac
The 2022 documentary workshop was lead by Guillaume Brac. In partnership with the Lausanne Sport!
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with Céline Bozon
For my end-of-study work, I had to design the photography for a graduation film.
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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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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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with Emmanuel Bourdieu
Two women come down from the top of a mountain, following a great disappointment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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with Gilles Marchand, Marie Monge
Two young skateboarders decide to go to a party, their evening gets complicated.
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ECAL and the Centre culturel suisse, Paris present the films made during the "Selfportrait and violence" workshop led by Mio Rau (playwright and theatre director at NTGhent Theatre) and Giacomo Bisordi (playwright and director).