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Documentary film workshop with Alessandro Comodin

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.

Fiction film workshop with Carmen Jaquier

FILM STUDIES

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.

Fiction film workshop with Lionel Baier

FILM STUDIES

Fiction film workshop with Lionel Baier

with Lionel Baier

The 2023 fiction film workshop for 1st year students was lead by Lionel Baier.

Archive as a Creative Act: The Absolute Cinema of Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos Utopia

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.

Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac

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.

1st year Documentary Workshop

FILM STUDIES

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.

Fiction film workshop with Thierry de Peretti

FILM STUDIES

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.

Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac

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!

Screening at the Swiss Culture Centre, Paris

FILM STUDIES

Screening at the Swiss Culture Centre, Paris

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).

«Heidi en Chine», une affaire de famille

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?

ECAL Cinema book 2019

FILM STUDIES

ECAL Cinema book 2019

ECAL book 2018

FILM STUDIES

ECAL book 2018

Diplomas Screening 2016

FILM STUDIES

Diplomas Screening 2016

At the Swiss Film Archive

Rehearsal

FILM STUDIES

Rehearsal

with Kaveh Bakhtiari

- Selected at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2014 - Selected at International Clermont-Ferrand Shortfilm Festival 2015 Synopsis A choir teacher, pupils of the Lyon Conservatory. Their face-to-face confrontation: a rehearsal, the second to last before the end of the year show. Commentaire Le temps d’un cours de chant, un maître tente de hisser le niveau de ses élèves vers l’audible. Entre la lutte chamanique du professeur et les corps fébriles des adolescents, un territoire inaccessible devient possible. Les souffles archaïques se font harmonie, Robert Schumann n’est alors plus une simple évocation mais une invocation par des adolescents en mutation, captifs entre deux mondes. Kaveh Bakhtiari Rehearsal on Swissfilms.ch

Being too serious

FILM STUDIES

Being too serious

with Sébastien Lifshitz

Martin has just been dumped and spends the night hanging out with David, a friend he hasn’t seen for a long time.

Meat

FILM STUDIES

Meat

with Hippolyte Girardot

Marcel and Suzanne are curious as to what human flesh tastes like. They decide try it out.

Night's dream

FILM STUDIES

Night's dream

with Hippolyte Girardot

A night party like others. Julie is looking for her friend Sara.

I've got a power

FILM STUDIES

I've got a power

with Denis Gheerbrant

This is the testimonial of a friendship between the director and his friend Mirko, with whom he spent his childhood playing with "Playmobil"-figures in a fantasy world.

Brother and Sister

FILM STUDIES

Brother and Sister

with Sébastien Lifshitz

Ismail and his sister are driving back from the airport. The young man has just arrived in a new country, Switzerland, whilst his sister has been here for a couple of month.

Happyland

FILM STUDIES

Happyland

with Denis Gheerbrant

Happyland, an amusement park in Switzerland, surrounded by mountains. A film on the people who work there, two women: one young and the other less so.

Elie

FILM STUDIES

Elie

with Sébastien Lifshitz

Jules is a young man, he is twenty one years old. His grand father is about to die. He is afraid to loose him. He decide to go and find a Rabin his grandfather used to know. During this travel, Jules mourns and grows up.

Spare time

FILM STUDIES

Spare time

with Dominique Marchais

Two young women live together in a brothel. The camera captures their daily life in their hours away from work.

In your arms

FILM STUDIES

In your arms

with Sébastien Lifshitz

A mother and daughter, two Portuguese immigrants. An evening watching series. The atmosphere becomes suffocating.

The Girls' Grave

FILM STUDIES

The Girls' Grave

with Frédéric Mermoud

Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be grown up. In the room that they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic compétition and Victoria has boys coming and going...

The Ambassador & me

FILM STUDIES

The Ambassador & me

with Jean-Stéphane Bron

A son, a father. The first one holds a camera; the second one holds the title ambassador. The camera trembles, the ambassador remains.

Born behind the stones

FILM STUDIES

Born behind the stones

with Jean-Stéphane Bron

From the photographs of my family and that of my boyfriend, I realize the portrait of two clans that everything opposes. And between the two: me.

Shabbat, thank god !

FILM STUDIES

Shabbat, thank god !

with Valérie Donzelli

Why tell the truth if a lie can help me achieve my aims ? Here the doctrine of Yigael, youthful inner-city Don Juan that too often forgets that lying is an art.

Kwa Heri Mandima

FILM STUDIES

Kwa Heri Mandima

with Jean-Stéphane Bron

Childhood pictures, the departure from Zaire when I was 10, my friends Watumu, Angi and Amosi, the big shift from a culture to another, identity, memories and footage...

Raphaël comme Geminiani

FILM STUDIES

Raphaël comme Geminiani

with Jean-Stéphane Bron

What's in a name? Raphaël is trying to meet the man after whom he is named, a former cycling star.

Spaghetti alle vongole

FILM STUDIES

Spaghetti alle vongole

with Didier Nion

Longing to renew relations with her absent father, a young woman finally finds the courage to confront him with the questions she has always wanted to ask.

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