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Symposium – Don t Die Now! : Cinema & artificial intelligences,05–06.05.2026,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL This two-day symposium is part of a research project by the Cinema Department at ECAL focusing on the impact of artificial intelligence on cinema. Artificial intelligence technologies are now playing an increasingly prominent role in discourse, as well as in creation practices, production and distribution of works, and in film education. This symposium therefore aims to shed light on the potential and challenges of these tools in order to understand how to use them — or decide not to — in full awareness, and to explore critical perspectives or possible alternative models. Discussions will also address the ethical and environmental issues raised by their development. This inaugural meeting will bring together film professionals and researchers to collectively reflect on the transformations brought about by these new tools. Directors, producers, screenwriters, historians and philosophers will share their experiences of how AI — whether analytical or generative — is transforming and sometimes disrupting the film production chain, and how they are adapting to it. These two days of presentations and discussions were conceived as the starting point for a research project led by the Cinema Department at ECAL. Three practical trials will follow from autumn 2026 onwards, with the aim of drawing lessons and making recommendations regarding the use of these tools. The trials and their results will be presented at a second symposium in spring 2027. Lecturers Roberto Beragnoli, Director, Florence Edouard Boccon Gibod, Producer at The Media Company, Paris Gilles Gaillard, Director of Photography and former director of MIKROS. Partner at the NIN9E Studio investment fund, Paris Andrea Gatopoulos, Director, Rome Philippe Lasry, Screenwriter and Head of the Screenwriting Department at FEMIS, Paris Alice Leroy, Film historian and critic at Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris André Ourednik, Researcher and science fiction author, Lausanne Further lecturers will be announced shortly.FULL PROGRAMTo comeBOOKINGTo comeDATES05–06.05.2026VENUEAuditoire IKEA, ECAL Avenue du Temple 5 1020 RenensHEAD OF RESEARCH PROJECTBenoît Rossel
ECAL AT VISIONS DU RÉEL: MASTERCLASS & ECAL FILMS,17–26.04.2026,Nyon For its 57th edition, Visions du Réel will feature numerous documentary films by students, graduates, and lecturers of ECAL, as well as a masterclass by American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, the festival s guest of honor. MASTERCLASS · KELLY REICHARDT Filmmaker, United States Kelly Reichardt is a leading figure in American independent cinema. She first came to be known in 1994 with River of Grass (Sundance), and her career took a new turn with Old Joy (2006, Tiger Award, Rotterdam) and Wendy and Lucy (2008, Un Certain Regard at Cannes). She brings a unique perspective, marked by subtlety and restraint, to intimate narratives rooted in American political, economic, and social realities. Her anti-westerns Meek s Cutoff (2010, Venice Film Festival) and First Cow (2019, Berlinale) revisit founding myths, while she explores the thriller genre in Night Moves (2014) and examines social constructs in Certain Women (2017) and Showing Up (2022), always highlighting strong, contemporary female characters. Winner of the Carrosse d Or at Cannes in 2022, she presented her latest film, The Mastermind, there in 2025. Masterclass moderated by Raphaëlle Pireyre. In collaboration with the Cinémathèque suisse and the Fondazione Prada. Tuesday, April 21, 2026 – 2:30 p.m Théâtre de Marens, Nyon More information FILMS From April 18 to 25, films by the ECAL Cinema department, graduates, and lecturers are featured in the program of the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon. Opening Scenes Prochain arrêt : Fontenay by , Cinema Bachelor student, sound editing and mixing by , ECAL–HEAD Cinema Master student. National Competition Der runde Tisch by and , Cinema Bachelor graduates. Editing by ; sound editing by ; sound mixing by , ECAL–HEAD Cinema Master graduates. En terrain neutre by Stéphane Goël, Cinema Bachelor lecturer, and Mehdi Atmani. Cinematography by Nicolas Veuthey, Cinema Bachelor graduate. Eternal Snow by François Kholer. Editing by Karine Sudan ; sound by , Cinema Bachelor graduates. Nicole, Nicole by Lauren Dällenbach. Sound notably by , Cinema Bachelor graduate. Safe Spaces by Sarah Horst. Editing by , Cinema Bachelor graduate and ECAL–HEAD Cinema Master lecturer. To the Moon and Back by , ECAL–HEAD Cinema Master graduate. Cinematography by ; sound by Théodora Menthonnex and Ilù Seydoux, Cinema Bachelor graduates. Burning Lights La voix du troupeau by , ECAL–HEAD Cinema Master graduate, and Lucien Roux. Production by and sound by , ECAL–HEAD Cinema Master graduates. International Feature Film Competition Dentro by , Cinema Bachelor lecturer. Co-produced by , Cinema Bachelor professor. Heat by , ECAL–HEAD Cinema Master lecturer. Borderlight Dao by , Cinema Bachelor lecturer. Cinematography by ; co-produced by Toufik Ayadi and Cristophe Barral, Cinema Bachelor lecturers.DATES & SCHEDULEFestival 17–26.04.2026 Masterclass 21.04.2026, 2:30 PMMASTERCLASS VENUEThéatre de Marens Route du Stand 5, 1260 NyonTICKETS AND FULL PROGRAMMEvisionsdureel.ch
Film Production – 2026 Événement Lumineux Through an in-depth exploration of light as a narrative and sensory medium, first-year students created a short film on the theme “Luminous Event.” This project allows them to learn how to manage a complete audiovisual project while mastering the tools of filming, framing, and camera movement.
Swiss Film Award 2026 for ECAL alumni Congratulations to Léa Favre, Julietta Korbel and Yan Ciszewski, ECAL Cinema Bachelor graduates, for winning the Swiss Film Award 2026 in the "Best Graduation Film" and the "Best Short Film" categories. With Hunting (2024), won the 2026 Swiss Film Award for Best Graduation Film. In this film, Léa sets out in search of a subject for a documentary. Just when she thinks she has finally caught her prey, the tables turn. The hunter becomes the hunted. Hunting has already been won several prices, notably at the Krakow Film Festival, the Encounters Film Festival in Bristol, and the Animatou International Animation Film Festival in Geneva. This is the second consecutive year that a film by an ECAL graduate has won the Swiss Film Award for Best Graduation Film, following Maman danse (2024) by . The Swiss Film Award for Best Short Film 2026 goes to Yonne (2025), by and . The film follows the journey of Jeanne and Eugénie, two young peasant sisters, as they navigate among the log drivers in the Morvan region in 1842. , a regular lecturer in the Cinema Bachelor program, co-produced the project. Congratulations to , also a lecturer in the Cinema Bachelor program, whose film À bras-le-corps (2025) won the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. The film s director of photography, Benoît Dervaux, recently led a workshop focusing on light for Cinema Bachelor students at ECAL, as well as a masterclass. The film was edited by Karine Sudan, a Cinema Bachelor graduate and a lecturer at ECAL. quartz.ch Photo © Eduard Meltzer Photography
ECAL at Solothurn Film Festival 2026,21–28.01.2026,Solothurn From January 23 to 25, four Bachelor Media & Interaction Design diploma projects will be featured in the immersive section of the 2026 Solothurn Film Festival. The 61st Solothurn Film Festival showcases four interactive projects from the Bachelor Media & Interaction Design, challenging how we perceive stories, space, and our digital lives. In UnBubble, lets a robot explore a user s Instagram activity, questioning how our digital traces construct a fragmented image of ourselves — one that is then used to guide our choices, desires, and attention. s Vulcan takes visitors into volcanic landscapes, contrasting the close-up work of a volcanologist with the fascination of the immensity of natural forces. ESC, by , explores the tension between control and constraint in virtual worlds, while What Lies Behind, by , shifts perspectives in VR to navigate between the immense and the minuscule. The festival also screens Always Wanted To Be God, Never Wanted to Do Good by Photography Bachelor alumni and Noa Epars, winners of the Award for Best Swiss Film 2025, presented by SUISSIMAGE and SSA (Société Suisse des Auteurs).VENUESolothurn, SwitzerlandDATESFrom 23 to 25 January, 2026HEAD OF PROGRAMMEWEBSITEsolothurnerfilmtage.chÉTUDIANT·E·S · · ·
Award for Best Swiss Film 2025 for Marvin Merkel and Noa Epars Congratulations to Marvin Merkel, graduate of ECAL s Bachelor Photography, and Noa Epars, winners of the 2025 Best Swiss Film Award presented by SUISSIMAGE and SSA (Société Suisse des Auteurs) at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. At the Winterthur International Short Film Festival, the award for “Best Swiss Film 2025” was presented to Always Wanted To Be God, Never Wanted to Do Good directed by ECAL Bachelor Photography alumni , and Noa Epars. Initiated by SUISSIMAGE and the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), the prize of CHF 10,000.- honors outstanding achievements in Swiss filmmaking. “In 2009, the mountain guide Patrick Bussard sawed down a Christian cross in the Fribourg Alps. He was severely punished by the courts. In my city, I see billboards everywhere displaying Bible verses.” @marvmerkel kurzfilmtage.chImage (c) kurzfilmtage
Screening of diploma films 2025,28.10.2025,Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne On Tuesday October 28, the ECAL presents the graduation films of the Bachelor Cinema at the Cinémathèque Suisse. SCREENING OF THE GRADUATION FILMS Bachelor Cinema 2025 The films presented reflect a variety of identities and perspectives, ranging from fiction to documentary, family drama to investigative film, and dark fantasy. Some films were co-produced by local production companies, including PicFilm, IDIP Films, Imaginastudio, Louise Productions, and GoldenEgg Production. Some films also received support from the Federal Office of Culture (FOC), Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), and Cinéforom. In the presence of the graduates DATES & SCHEDULETuesday, October 28, 2025 at 7:00pm Doors open at 6:30pm Free entry whitin the limits of available placesVENUECinémathèque suisse Cinéma Capitole Avenue du Théâtre 6 1005 LausanneWEBSITEcinematheque.ch
ECAL at Locarno Film Festival,06–16.08.2025,Locarno Three graduation films and numerous contributions from ECAL graduates and lecturers will be featured at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, taking place from 6 to 16 August 2025. Pardi di Domani – Concorso Nazionale Two diploma films by recently graduated students have been selected: L Avant-Poste 21 diploma film by , BA Cinema 2025 sound editing: Noirs Matins diploma film by , BA Cinema sound recording: sound editing: Yonne co-directed by and , BA Cinema graduates with the participation of several MA Cinema ECAL–HEAD graduates: , , , , and Concorso Internazionale Le Lac by Fabrice Aragno, BA Cinema graduate produced by , artistic assistant at the Cinema Department Dracula by , ECAL guest lecturer Panorama Suisse Qui Part À La Chasse diploma film by , BA Cinema graduate La Cache by , ECAL professor Piazza Grande The Deal series by , BA Cinema graduate, awarded at Série Mania 2025 Fuori Concorso Le Chantier by , BA Cinema graduate This strong selection once again highlights the reach of ECAL and its Cinema Department in major international festivals.DATES & SCHEDULE06-16.08.2025PROGRAMMEwww.locarnofestival.ch VENUELocarno
Documentary film workshop with Alessandro Comodin – 2025 The 2025 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin. Head of workshop: "This year, there s been a lot of talk about pebbles on tiles and eggs dangerously stuffed into jeans pockets. The pebbles, I confess, were me, Alessandro Comodin, a forty-something Italian director, who had thrown them at the windows of my new apprentice filmmakers. It was my mission, or so I interpreted it. Yes, I was the one who threw those pebbles, because I ve always enjoyed being disturbed by a friend who might have dropped by unexpectedly, because he or she didn t know what better to do than to come to my house. So, as so often with the gifts we give, it s the ones we d like to receive, I took the liberty of getting young people off their sofas and into the dark and magical world of documentaries. Or that they might simply open the windows without fear. The eggs, on the other hand, were the students projects. The image of the egg may be banal, but it s been a nutritional staple since long before the happy experience of Noah s Ark, and not to displease vegans or allergy sufferers, because eggs were never to be eaten or broken, just put in your pocket and kept there. A highly perilous exercise, but you can t be a filmmaker s apprentice without an acute awareness of the passage of time and the fragility of appearances. Let me conclude with a quote from Julio Cortazar. In 1980, he was invited to give a series of lectures to students at Berkeley. At one point he said that an idea is like a bird that sneaks in through the window; you never know when it s going to fly in, and it s not easy to catch it. I would add that you still need to have your windows open. We ve learned that this year, that it s really nice to open your windows a little bit every day, even at night, because a bird might come in or a friend might throw a pebble in, and you never know when that pebble might turn into an egg." Alessandro Comodin, director • , Letters to Louise, 17 • , About Love, 14 • , Next Stop Fontenay, 23 • , My little Nono, 13 • , Madame Favre s, 23 • , Basile dreams of a spider, 15 • , Lorena, 18 • , The panther, my Oasis, 23 , Liebe Lotti, 17 , The archangel, 13
Documentary film workshop with Benoit Rossel The 2025 documentary film workshop for 1st year students was lead by french swiss director Benoit Rossel. Head of workshop: "Since it s always ghosts that are presented on screen in a film, I suggested to the 1st year students in the Cinema section that they make a film in which they would have the project of resurrecting a disappeared person or thing of their choice. Cinema, through the properties of the medium, would certainly have the capacity to bring it back to life." Benoit Rossel, director • , Voyage, 12 • , La musique de la biodiversité, 7 • , Après la montagne, 25 • , La Rosière, 11 • , Herbier de Prison, 10 • , Latcheen, 17 • , Before I go to sleep, 20 • , Mon monstre, 12 , Entre aqui et lá, 18 , Soeurcières, 28
A Graduation Film Selected at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2025 The animated short film Qui part à la chasse by ECAL graduate Léa Favre has been selected for the official competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Created as part of her Bachelor diploma work at ECAL, s short film is competing in the “Graduation Films” category of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Titled Qui part à la chasse, the film combines dark humor and puppetry to reverse roles in a forest chase that is as tense as it is absurd. Produced in collaboration with Hélium Films, this project showcases the strength of ECAL s Animation program. @leafre_ annecyfestival.com
Direction workshop with Patric Chiha In partnership with La Manufacture, the Cinema Dapartment invited austrian director Patric Chiha for a direction workshop destined to 3rd year students. Head of workshop: "The deepest thing about man is his skin. Although it s not its subject, this beautiful phrase by Paul Valéry speaks to me of the essence of cinema: we only film surfaces and nothing else. During the workshop, I d like to work with the students from ECAL and La Manufacture on a series of screen tests, essays, shots... a bit like what you d do during a casting. For me, a casting is not a moment of verification or testing, but of research and encounter. What can directors and actors do together? Where does this first meeting lead us? How do we approach and film the other? How can we avoid trapping them in a preconceived image, and instead liberate their multiple identities? I don t believe in directing actors, except that perhaps, in an encounter, we direct each other. I believe much more in the tools of cinema - the camera, the light, the music... - as an invitation to play, to surprise, to emotion. Over the five days of the workshop, we ll use a series of improvisations, filmed in natural or artificial light, with or without words, trusting in the mysteries of faces, the pace of bodies and the rhythms of gestures - in everything that may at first seem superficial - and without resorting to scripts, to try to reach emotions." Patric Chiha, director
VISIONS DU RÉEL: MASTERCLASS & ECAL FILMS,04–13.04.2025,Nyon As guest of honour at the 56th edition of the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, filmmaker Raoul Peck will be giving a masterclass on Tuesday 8 April, organised in partnership with the Cinémathèque suisse. The programme also includes five films by the ECAL s Cinema Department and alumni. MASTERCLASS: RAOUL PECK Filmmaker, Haiti Born in Haiti in 1953, and raised in Congo, New York, France and Germany, Raoul Peck is one of the most important filmmakers of the late 20th and early 21st century. Over the course of the last forty years, the filmmaker has anchored his complex body of work, which includes internationally acclaimed feature films and documentaries, in a deep political commitment. The genesis of his cinematographic tales stems in equal measure from his multicultural personal experience, his journey as an activist, and what he refers to as a “Marxist reading” of the global economy. An indefatigable narrator of tales as seen from the viewpoint of those subject to domination, Raoul Peck has also questioned the links to capitalism in his own personal history, haunted by the ghosts of colonialism. His films examine omissions from official Western history, shining a light on aspects ignored by this account, often sketching a portrait of politicians or artists who have openly deconstructed it, such as Patrice Lumumba in Lumumba, La Mort du prophète, a feature film released in 1990, followed bythedocumentary Lumumba (2000), James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro (2016), and, most recently, Ernest Cole with Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024). Summoning the past to examine the present and rejecting any call to neutrality, Raoul Peck s work is a reinvention of activist cinema, which he transforms using a cinematographic, poetic and highly subjective language, freely intermingling genres and formats. Exterminate All The Brutes, a hybrid series in four parts (produced by HBO) – which will also be screened during the Festival – is a perfect example of this: it is a journey back in time, a radical re-examination of the history of European colonialism, from America to Africa, using personal, visual and literary narration to starkly revisit the darkest hours in human history right up to the present day. It won a Peabody Award in 2022, and was also the subject of a critical and literary essay. An event in collaboration with the Cinémathèque suisse. Text: Visions du Réel FILMS As part of Visions du Réel, from April 4 to 13, films by ECAL s Cinema Department and alumni are scheduled. SECTION OPENING SCENES Qui part à la chasse, directed by Lea Favre, Bachelor Cinema 2024 diploma film INTERNATIONALE COMPETITION Niederurnen, GL, directed by Anna Joos, Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD 2024 diploma film NATIONALE COMPETITION Toute Ma Vie, directed by Matias Carlier, Bachelor Cinema alumni, image by Myriam Guyénard, Bachelor Cinema alumni Lettres Au Docteur L, directed by Laurence Favre, Master Cinema ECAL/HEAD alumni. Colostrum film editing by Myriam Rachmuth, Bachelor Cinema alumni, sound by Theodora Menthonnex, Bachelor Cinema alumni Les Papas directed by David Maye, Bachelor Cinema alumni Les Vies d Andrès film editing by Karine Sudan, Bachelor Cinema alumni Olga, directed by Elie Grappe, Bachelor Cinema alumniDATES & SCHEDULEFestival 04–13.04.2025 Masterclass 08.04.2025, 2:30 PMVENUEThéatre de Marens Route du Stand 5, 1260 NyonTICKETS AND FULL PROGRAMMEvisionsdureel.ch
Swiss Film Award : two ECAL film graduates honoured Klaudia Reynicke and Mégane Brügger win the ‘Best Feature Film and ‘Best Graduation Film awards respectively. At the 2025 Swiss Film Awards ceremony held on 21 March at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva, two ECAL graduates in Film were awarded major prizes. Congratulations to them! , who graduated from the ECAL/HEAD Master in Film in 2010 and is a lecturer on the ECAL Master in Film, won the ‘Best Feature Film award for her film Reinas. In 1992, while Peru was in the grip of political unrest, Lucia and Aurora were preparing to leave their country with their mother for a better life in America. But to leave, they needed their father to sign the consent papers. Carlos, who had practically disappeared from their lives, now decided to fight to get his two ‘queens back. @klaudiareynicke , who graduated with a Bachelor s degree in Film from ECAL in 2024, won the ‘Best Graduation Film award for her short film Maman danse. What is left of a mother after years of domestic violence? What is left of her body, her dignity and her strength? Surely words, memory and a few dance steps that are still passed on. @meganebrugger
Fiction film workshop with Klaudia Reynicke The 2024 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss and peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke. Head of workshop: "The aim of the second-year BA fiction workshop 2024-2025 was to write and direct short films on a very limited budget and to a very tight deadline. As head of this workshop, I chose to push these constraints to make it a real learning tool for the students. We took our inspiration from the principles of Dogma 95, while imposing a theme: ‘birth . The idea was to get the students to concentrate fully on the essence of filmmaking, to tell stories in the most raw and sincere way possible, without relying on devices often considered indispensable. This approach allowed them to explore storytelling and directing in a new way. Most of them played along. I ended up relaxing some of the rules of Dogme 95, which may seem contradictory. But this strict framework, which wasn t very sexy for many at first, served as a starting point, giving them a basis and constraints for experimenting, testing and researching. Then the projects took over. Everyone found their own urgency, their own rules. So we left Dogme 95 behind and concentrated on the films themselves. Films that are unique, sincere, sometimes raw, often powerful and as rich as they are profound, in all their splendour." Klaudia Reynicke, director • , Crescendo, 9 35 • , Garance, 18 04 • , Cuxhaven, 18 • , Looking for someone up to anything for a big sum of money, 14 02 • , Nausea, 17 40 • , Kean, 10 50 • , Border, 15 13 • , White zone, 12 22
screening of diploma films 2024,12.11.2024,Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne On Tuesday November 12, the ECAL presents the graduation films of the Bachelor Cinema at the Cinémathèque Suisse. SCREENING OF THE GRADUATION FILMS Tuesday 12.11.2024 Cinémathèque suisse Bachelor Cinema 2024 18h30 Room CAP 1 In the presence of the graduates Matteo Friberg Mégane Brügger Donika Gashi Camille Anker Arsène Fragnière Naïla Ebinger Léa Favre Pol Barrelet Loïc Pidoux Benjamin Eggenberger Hervé Ossent Maria Luiza Vaz Master Cinema 2024 19h00 Room CAP 2 In the presence of the graduates Valentina Parati Sara Dutch Anna Joos Fei Fan Theofanis Papadopoulos Pablo Guscetti Jonathan Daza OspinaDATES & SCHEDULETuesday, November 12, 2024 6:30pm Bachelor Cinema Room CAP 1 7pm Master Cinema Room CAP 2 Free entry whitin the limits of available placesVENUECinémathèque suisse Cinéma Capitole Avenue du Théâtre 6 1005 LausanneWEBSITEcinematheque.ch
Directing workshop with Alejo Moguillansky A 1 week filmmaking workshop led by the Argentinian director, screenwriter and producer Alejo Moguillansky with the students of the Master in Film - major direction. A 1 week filmmaking workshop led by the Argentinian director, screenwriter and producer Alejo Moguillansky with the students of the Master in Film - major direction.
ECAL at Locarno Film Festival,07–17.08.2024,Locarno On the occasion of the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, many graduates of ECAL will present movies Pardi di domani selection : « Maman danse » by Swiss Film Foundry Selection : Les lumières de Kyiv by Rose à la ferme by Thérébentine by Borderland by Woof Woof by DATES & SCHEDULE07-17.08.2024PROGRAMwww.locarnofestival.ch VENUELocarno
Camille Anker – Once there was a storm (Direction) In the passenger seat, a young woman waits for the end of the road unfolding beyond the window. Fiction / 27 min Synopsis Beyond the window of a car, a road unfolds. In the passenger seat, a young woman seems to be waiting for it to end. Beside her, the man sitting behind the wheel strives in vain to make this journey to nowhere last.
Pol Barrelet – Leave the hive (Direction) Mila is tired of living in this small town and dreams of elsewhere. But leaving everything behind means even her closest friends. Fiction / 15 min Synopsis She grew up in this small town. She is tired of living in this small town. Mila dreams of elsewhere. But leaving means giving up everything, even her band, her closest friends.
Maria Luiza Vaz – Where were you at night? (Direction) 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. Fiction / 24 min Synopsis Clara is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives alone with her mother in a small isolated house in the forest. They have an archaic way of life, and live in an unidentified but seemingly distant era. Clara is full of vitality, but her mother is a vampirizing woman who prevents her from breaking free. Her mother s depression creates a co- dependent relationship that fills Clara with guilt. However, an encounter with a mysterious boy in the forest turns Clara s daily life upside down and reinforces her desire for transgression.
Mégane Brügger – Mom dances (Direction) 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. Documentary / 23 min Synopsis 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. This documentary talks about the domestic violence my mother suffered when she was with her partner at the time. By bringing this memory back to life and opening up about my mother s story, it allows me to make her depression tangible, to acknowledge her illness as a direct consequence of the patriarchal violence she experienced, and also to highlight the suffering that affects other childhoods as well.
Benjamin Eggenberger – The Stork s Lair (Direction) In an alienating huis-clos, where life is lived vicariously, two lovers bound by an impossible desire descend into fantasy and destruction. Fiction / 21 min Synopsis Edouard and Justine, two documentary filmmakers in their 20s, are preparing a film about young, single women who are pregnant and extremely isolated. In the winter, they live and work in a caravan in the middle of a campsite devoid of holidaymakers. Alice is a mother-to-be, who comes to the caravan to be interviewed. Little by little we realize that the couple s intentions towards the young woman are very different from what she had been expecting.
Léa Favre – Who goes hunting... (Direction) 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. Animation - Docu/Fiction / 11 min Synopsis Today, Lea is going in search of a subject for a documentary film. When she reaches her chosen location, a stadium above the town, she meets an elderly man who seems different from anyone else. Lea believes she s finally caught her prey, but the roles end up being reversed. The hunter becomes the hunted.
Arsène Fragnière – Cartilage (Direction) – 2024 At the end of the night, Gaël will abandon his group of friends. As the evening progresses, however, they realize that something is wrong. Fiction / 14 min Synopsis It s Gaël s last evening in Lausanne before his departure abroad. they re spending it with his group of friends, whom he ll be leaving in the morning. But as the evening progresses, he realizes that his group of friends is behaving strangely. Unfortunately, it s already too late.
Matteo Friberg – Death to the hunchbacks (Direction) Knight Borboron is poisoned and wants to apologize to Hildegund before dying. Fiction / 25 min Synopsis Knight Borboron, is forced to give in to peer pressure and, in order to avoid fighting in battle, eats a piece of poisoned cake. He quickly regrets his decision and feels overcome with a weight on his conscience. In a panic, he makes his young squire Michmich escort him on a final quest that will assuage his guilt and thus enable him to die with dignity: to apologize to Hildegrund.
Donika Gashi – La vie de Lucy (Direction) Lucy is a young Cro-Magnon woman, a descendant of Lucy the Australopithecus, who lives in a pre-historic, Stone Age, tribe. Fiction / 16 min Synopsis Lucy is a young Cro-Magnon woman, a descendant of Lucy the Australopithecus, who lives in a pre-historic, Stone Age, tribe. But she is not like the others. While they all prefer to hunt, Lucy is fascinated by nature and loves to go foraging. Her obsession with plants and trees takes her into a world of dreams that help her escape form the cruel reality of life in the Stone Age.
Hervé Ossent – The hole (Direction) Guillaume, a young pig farmer, discovers that his father is indulging in bestiality. Fiction / 15 min Synopsis Guillaume, a young pig farmer, discovers that his father is indulging in bestiality. Although he tries to deny what he s seen and to forget about it by working harder, he can t get the horror out of his mind. He tries to find relief away from the stifting atmosphere of the pig farm but realizes that he is more isolated than ever. Everyone in the village knows what that man is up to and Guillaume pays the price. A confrontation with his father seems inevitable.
Loïc Pidoux – Betelgeuse (Direction) Three young artists search for their place in the world, under the glow of supernova remnants. Fiction / 23 min Synopsis Marlo is a cook and a wannabe filmmaker who is trying to set all things ephemeral on to hard disks. Eloïse is an actress who goes to endless auditions while she s still young enough. Finally, Liam is a musician who is obsessed with jazz and locks himself up in a world of music and joints. The film explores these three diverse existences that are trying to find their place in a changing world, under the undisturbed glow of the remnants of the Betelgeuse supernova.
Naïla Ebinger – Cartilage (Direction) – 2024 #2 For my diploma project, I did the cinematography for the bachelor film of my classmate Arsène Fragnière: Cartilage. Fiction / 14 min Synopsis It s Gaël s last evening in Lausanne before his departure abroad. they re spending it with his group of friends, whom he ll be leaving in the morning. But as the evening progresses, he realizes that his group of friends is behaving strangely. Unfortunately, it s already too late.
Documentary film workshop with Alessandro Comodin – 2024 The 2024 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin. Head of workshop: "To make a film, you have to take into account so many variables that it may seem impossible. If we accept this ontological impossibility and the imperfection it entails, the greatest variable to be confronted in filming becomes the self. How, then, to film the Other? How do we portray them? How do we accept that the film will also be a portrait of ourselves? How do you strike a balance between the Other and yourself? How, finally, can we work on our own style, our own unconscious inclinations, our own tastes and desires, without letting ourselves be influenced by forms and images we ve already seen? We worked in the simplest, most artisanal way possible, going back to the very basics of cinematic grammar. We desacralized mise-en-scène, reducing it as much as possible to a question of light, frame, out-of-frame, sound... In this way, we were able to touch the heart of our craft with our own hands: the most important thing when we make a film is the people we re filming, the bond that binds us, the desire and pleasure of immortalizing them...and this in the same way, whether we re making documentaries or fiction." Alessandro Comodin, director • , En surface, 23 • , Your face that still eludes me, 33 • , A paradise, 36 • , Family photos, 26 • , Loop, 15 • , Worthwhile wait followed by great joy, 19 • , Sunflower, 23 • , Limbo, 40
L ECAL AT VISIONS DU RÉEL: MASTERCLASS & ECAL FILMS,12–21.04.2024,Nyon As guest of honour at the 55th edition of the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke will be giving a masterclass on Tuesday 16 April, organised in partnership with the Cinémathèque suisse. The programme also includes six films by the ECAL s Cinema Department and alumni. MASTERCLASS: JIA ZHANG-KE Cinéaste, Chine Moderated by Jean-Michel Frodon, film critic and journalist A leading figure in independent Chinese cinema, and contemporary cinema more broadly, Jia Zhang-Ke will be presenting a masterclass exploring his captivating and multifaceted oeuvre which examines the history of his country and the characters who inhabit it. A retrospective of his films will run throughout the festival edition. Born in 1970 in the mining region of Shanxi, bordered by the Great Wall of China, Jia Zhang-Ke is a leading light in contemporary cinema. He belongs to a generation of Chinese filmmakers who were profoundly affected by the Tiananmen Square protests. His diverse filmography, which comprises more than 20 short and feature works, borrows elements from both genre and non-fiction cinema. Switching from taught thrillers to documentaries and encompassing a myriad hybrid formats woven together by non-professional actors, fictional works on a canvas of reality, and fantasies bypassing otherwise restrained stories, Jia Zhang-Ke has spent two decades creating a filmography as coherent as it is shifting. His stylistically diverse oeuvre deploys the full range of cinematographic techniques (16 and 35mm, DV, HD, etc.). Approaching his subject as a visual artist, Jia Zhang-Ke offers a subtle and subversive immersion in Chinese society, imbued with a sublimated realism. Resisting censorship and tirelessly defending the cultural significance of his country s cinematic output, Jia Zhang-Ke weaves long-form, epic-style stories to explore personal and multifaceted journeys that challenge the notion of dissolution of the individual within the national narrative. Ever willing to wrestle with the realities of China s recent history, the filmmaker offers a profoundly humanist representation that draws on memories and recollections. To achieve this, Jia Zhang-Ke creates a narrative polysemy that focuses its gaze on the everyday lives of ordinary people living in “intermediate towns” scattered between the rural life and that of the country s burgeoning megacities. By doing so, Jia Zhang-Ke s films dissect the promises and mirages offered under the forced march of modernisation in effect since the 1960s. They examine the effects of this collective story, specifically the imposition of state capitalism on human beings, by providing a romantic and sensitive counter-narrative. An essential and uncompromising filmography that has often fallen foul of the government s strict censorship regime. An event in collaboration with the Cinémathèque suisse. Text: Visions du Réel FILMS As part of Visions du Réel, from April 12 to 21, 6 films by ECAL s Cinema Department and alumni are scheduled. SECTION OPENING SCENES Rose à la ferme, directed by Giulia Goy, Bachelor Cinéma 2023 diploma film, image by Pierre Daendliker, Bachelor Cinéma ECAL alumni. PROJECTIONS SPÉCIALES Paléo, une odyssée 1976-2022, series of four short films by current students in the ECAL/HEAD Master of Cinema program. La maison 5 étoiles, directed by Marie-Eve Hildebrand and Agnese Laposi, sound by Massimo Del Gaudio, Bachelor Cinéma ECAL alumni. Foudre, directed by Carmen Jaquier, Bachelor Cinéma ECAL and Master Cinéma ECAL/HEAD alumni. COMPÉTITION NATIONALE Feu feu feu, directed by Pauline Jeanbourquin, image by Augustin Losserand, sound by Theodora Menthonnex, Bachelor Cinéma ECAL alumni. Mes amis espagnols, directed by Adrien Bordone, Bachelor Cinéma ECAL alumni. DATES & SCHEDULESFestival 12–21.04.2024 Masterclass 16.04.2024, 14hVENUEFestival Various locations in Nyon Masterclass Théatre de Marens Route du Stand 5, 1260 NyonTICKETS AND FULL PROGRAMvisionsdureel.ch
Fiction film workshop with Carmen Jaquier The 2023 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss director Carmen Jaquier. Head of workshop: "The initial proposal was to leave room for the students desires and quests, while offering a simple framework for the making of their second-year film. We worked from a single set, as vast as Michelangelo Frammartino s and the exhausted interior architecture of John Cassavetes characters. Together, we looked for simple, accessible, everyday ways of nurturing a story and characters. We wanted to capture gestures, ways of speaking, and significant details in people we know and don t know. We came up with "A Rock", a sort of collection of images, thoughts and interactions, with the idea of expanding the universe of the films. To avoid the black holes of writing, we set ourselves in action, in movement. We imagined the shoots as parties, and danced with Aurélien. Collages and skeletons invaded the white walls of the school, revealing the films to come. On the big screen, I watch, moved, two young brothers tearing themselves apart over a lie, three friends in a frenzy just before separation, a young man absorbed by his need for power, a friend giving in under the weight of the mountain, two sisters who have made a promise to each other, a son who summons his father s spirit through music, the love and death rites of a young kendoka, a group of girlfriends in search of an inner voice, and a fragmented young man, before the end of the world." Carmen Jaquier, director • , Adam, 18 09 • , Diapason 440, 11 14 • , L ordre des choses, 56 • , Broke, 20 44 • , Hive, 15 02 • , Utaga-U, 17 39 • , Inconscientes, 20 27 • , Ombres, 15 • , Backwards, 21 19
Editorial Design – S1 2023 During the editorial design course with Harry Bloch, the 1st year students developed, during the fall semester, an edition around a personal survey.
Editorial Design – S5 2023 In this half-semester project, students had to work on a daily newspaper article published on a predefined date and develop an editorial concept.
Fiction film workshop with Lionel Baier The 2023 fiction film workshop for 1st year students was lead by Lionel Baier. Head of workshop: "The aim of the workshop was to produce a 3 to 5 minute fiction film during a two days shooting at a single location around Lausanne, based on the script of a pre-existing film. The students saw ten feature films and were assigned one of them. They extracted a scene from it and adapted it. The films ranged from Subway (Luc Besson) to Lazarro Felice (Alice Rohrwacher). Each short film had to be able to be seen independently of the film from which it was taken. The aim of the workshop was to try out the problems of directing actors, cutting and directing without focusing on the script for this first fictional exercise." Lionel Baier, director • , Jade, 5 16 • , La bonne conduite, 7 09 • , À tout à l heure, ma soeur, 7 19 • , Daphné ou la chute, 5 24 • , Spectre, 8 50 • , La sainte obscurité a mit la main sur moi, 6 04 • , Sylvain Dielman, 10 47 • , Ce sera dans les nuages, 06 44 • , Bueb, 7 13
Editorial Design – S3 2023 The semester project consists of two editions with identical content but different formats. Construct content from a news report, to produce two editions.
Cyanotype workshop – 2023 A day-long workshop given by Aude Meyer de Stadelhofen to students in the Graphic Design option. The aim was to compose by hand using tracing paper on which were printed visuals previously produced by the students. The possibility of cutting, cropping, pasting and drawing allowed everyone to make the visuals their own and create original posters.
ECAL XMAS MARKET 2023,20.12.2023,ECAL, Renens It s time! On December 20 from 6pm to 9pm, the traditional ECAL Christmas market is back. Don t miss this opportunity to celebrate the magic of Christmas and support ECAL talent. Wednesday, December 20, 2023, from 6pm to 9pm, at ECAL. Discover original creations, made by our students and graduates. An array of unique pieces to give or to treat yourself: Posters, jewelry, editions, objects, photographs, publications, silkscreens, calendars, soaps, pottery, confectionery, clothing and accessories... You can also enjoy a sound performance by Bachelor of Visual Arts students, while enjoying mulled wine and fondue. while enjoying mulled wine and fondue in a festive atmosphere. Leave with your arms full of exclusive gifts to put under the tree!DATES & SCHEDULE20.12.2023 6pm-9pmVENUEECAL Avenue du Temple 5 1020 Renens
TalkCity – 2023 During a one week workshop led by Gaël Hugo, students developed situational conversational agents integrating artificial intelligence. These exchanges generate associated 3D environments to provide visual support. This web app takes users inside a telephone sales simulator. As soon as you pick up the phone, the conversational agent tries to sell you some products. Par Baptiste Godart et Valère Zen-Ruffinen This project takes the user into a tense couple exchange. The conversational agent plays with words, turning them against the user, thus intensifying the conflict. The visuals support this escalation by increasingly elevating the words of the discussion. Project made by Livia Schmid & Alexine Sierro This dialogue takes the user into a discussion with a conversational agent who asks questions but isn t interested in the answers. If the discussion stops, the words collapse. Project made by Olivia Capol & Mathias Liniger
Josef Müller-Brockmann Award 2023 – Ceremony & Lecture,07.12.2023,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL On Thursday December 7, 2023 at 6pm, ECAL will host the public presentation of the Josef Müller-Brockmann 2023 Prize to Laura Csocsán, an ECAL graduate. Graphic designer Vera van de Seyp will also give a lecture on this occasion. , who graduated from ECAL s Master Type Design program in 2022, is the winner of the Josef Müller-Brockmann Prize 2023. She is the third artist to receive this award, worth CHF 25,000. Awarded every two years by the Shizuko Yoshikawa and Josef Müller-Brockmann Foundation, this is one of the most important prizes for graphic design in Switzerland. > Read the full article LECTURE - VERA VAN DE SEYP Graphic designer, MIT Media Lab Boston/Amsterdam Dutch designer and creative coder, Vera van de Seyp is currently based in Boston (USA), and member of the Future Sketches group at MIT Media Lab. Her exploration of new technologies and digital tools, as well as her unique approach to typography, resonates strongly with the practice of the awardee, Laura Csocsán. Both question and reinvent the use of digital devices. Rather than just using them as tools, they turn them into instruments. Images and texts are revisited with computational twists, turning the page into a playground for experimentation and creation. Using automation, artificial intelligence and coding, they question our uses of the digital with their reflexions about systems, structures, both elements being at the center of typographic practice and type design drawing, and also an echo of the work of Josef Müller-Brockmann. veravandeseyp.com DATES & SCHEDULESThursday, December 7, 2023 at 6:00pm Free entryVENUEIKEA Auditorium, ECAL Avenue du Temple 5 1020 RenensWEBSITEsyjmb.foundationTALKVera Van de Seyp, graphic designer, MIT Media Lab Boston/AmsterdamGREETINGS, ECAL Director Lars Müller, President, Shizuko Yoshikawa und Josef Müller-Brockmann Stiftung , award winner
Cuvée Pierre Keller 2023,30.11.2023,Maison Buttin-de-Loës, Grandvaux On Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 5pm, the 5th edition of the limited cuvée "lâche-moi la grappe" will be tasted and sold. To honor the memory of Pierre Keller, we are pleased to invite you to the tasting and sale of the 5th edition of the limited cuvée "Lâche-moi la grappe" on Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 5pm at Maison Buttin-de-Loës in Grandvaux. This 5th Pierre Keller cuvée, a wine creation that celebrates not only art, but also the unforgettable encounters it engenders. This cuvée is inspired by a friendship sealed 40 years ago, when winemaker Alain Parisod opened the doors of his Grandvaux home to American artist Keith Haring, thanks to Pierre Keller. Come and share this moment of conviviality and taste a wine that embodies the spirit of creativity and sharing that lies at the heart of our region. Proceeds from the sale will go towards the Pierre Keller Prize, awarded to a particularly committed ECAL diploma project.DATES & SCHEDULESThursday, November 30, 2023 5pm - 8pm Free entry with registrationADDRESSMaison Buttin-de-Loës Sentier des Vinches 2 1091 GrandvauxTICKETSRegisterWEBSITEwww.vaudvins.ch
ECAL OPEN DAY 2023,25.11.2023,ECAL, Renens On Saturday, November 25, 2023, from 8:30am to 6:00pm ECAL opens its doors and invites you to discover its activities in the fields of Fine Arts, Cinema, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design and Photography. ECAL opens its doors for you to discover its activities in the fields of Fine Arts, Film, Industrial Product Design, Graphic & Type Design, Media & Interaction Design and Photography. Lectures given by department heads will present our courses. Graduates will be on hand to talk about their experiences in the professional world, shedding light on career opportunities. The variety of our disciplines will be highlighted by the Diplomas 2023 exhibition, featuring editions, photographs, typography, art and interactive installations, films and objects. Events will invite you to explore the building and its infrastructure: gallery, workshops, printing and technology centers, photo and film studios. The results of the latest works in progress will give you a glimpse of the diversity of projects created by students. Academic Services will also be on hand to answer any questions you may have about admission requirements, prerequisites and application deadlines.DATES & SCHEDULESSaturday 25 November 2023 8.30 am - 6 pm Free entryADDRESSECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne Av. du Temple 5 1020 RenensWORKSHOP & EXHIBITION PROGRAMECAL Open Day Programme (PDF)CONFERENCES PROGRAM09:00am - 10:00am Foundation Year – IKEA Auditorium 10:15am - 11:00am Bachelor Graphic Design – IKEA Auditorium Bachelor Fine Arts – Leenaards Auditorium 11:15am - 12:00pm Bachelor Photography – IKEA Auditorium Bachelor Cinema – Leenaards Auditorium 12:15pm - 1:00pm Bachelor Media & Interaction Design – IKEA Auditorium Master Photography – Leenaards Auditorium 2:00pm - 3:00pm Foundation Year – IKEA Auditorium MAS Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship – Leenaards Auditorium Master Cinema – Nussbaumer Auditorium 3:15pm - 4:00pm Bachelor Industrial Design – IKEA Auditorium Master Fine Arts – Leenaards Auditorium CAS Creative Leadership – Nussbaumer Auditorium 4.15pm - 5.00pm Master Product Design – IKEA Auditorium Master Type Design – Leenaards Auditorium MAS Design Research for Digital Innovation (EPFL+ECAL Lab) – Nussbaumer Auditorium NB: If you would like to start a course in the arts, we recommend that you attend the Propaedeutic Year lecture, as well as the Bachelor lectures in the fields that interest you.
PRAXIS – EXHIBITION OF THE CITY OF RENENS 2023 ENCOURAGEMENT PRIZE,23.11–10.12.2023,La Ferme des Tilleuls, Renens From November 23 to December 10, Ferme des Tilleuls hosts "Praxis", an exhibition by Till Seegräber and Gabriela Jaime, winners of the City of Renens 2023 Encouragement Prize. The City of Renens 2023 Encouragement Prize was awarded to two ECAL students, (Bachelor Industrial Design) and (Master Type Design). In the wake of this encounter, they have created "Praxis", an innovative collection of design objects that evoke simplicity. In an increasingly multi-faceted world that adapts to our individual needs, this exhibition invites us to reflect on the essence of objects. In so doing, it offers a counterpoint to the complexification that prevails in the field of design. By breaking down the elements of our environment, the designers have arrived at refined building blocks that can be used to design a wide range of objects. Gabriela Jaime and Till Seegräber present a series of abstract works exploring the ideas of prefabrication, grids and systems. ADDRESSLa Ferme des Tilleuls – Le Rural Rue de Lausanne 52 CH-1020 Renens WEBSITEfermedestilleuls.ch OPENINGTuesday, November 23, 2023 - 6pm
Self-Initiated Project - Fall 2023 - MAP2 This module assists the students to develop a long term project - touching upon all stages from the idea to the final presentation. Students will have the opportunity to take some of the ideas and project from the previous semesters, in order to explore them further, or engage in brand new ones. The outcome of the project could take any form - from book to performance, from physical exhibition to digital presentations. A strong emphasis will be on the research/concept and the impact, experience of the outcome.
Materialized Photography - Fall 2023 - MAP2 The purpose of this class is to examine the relationships between photography — in a context shaped by the digital — and its various modes of display. Students will have to consider what a photograph may be materially and explore how an image s meaning is derived from both the mode of its distribution and the material form that it assumes. Although the final outcome has to include photography in a third dimensional way ( installation ), projects may use and combine image-based practices such as digital photography, collage, CGI, projection, printmaking, sculpture, objects, or performance, to encourage an expanded approach to photographic practice. The idea is to challenge the different types of engagement possible with pictures today.
Junge Grafik Award 2023 honors nine ECAL students and graduates. Congratulations to all the ECAL-related winners and finalists for their participation in the second edition of the Junge Grafik Award. The Junge Grafik association created the Junge Grafik Award to support outstanding graphic design work by students trained in Switzerland. The Junge Grafik Award 2023 ceremony was successfully held on November 18, 2023 in Lucerne. Of the 30 projects selected by the jury, nine showcase the talent and creativity of ECAL students: - - Ba Aretz - - KRUMP - - DSE - - Varia - - We don t go back to normality - - Velvet Flowers - , , - The coral rescue project - - Gear Up / Stand Down - - Le Radeau The 2023 jury was made up of Alice Franchetti, Cédric Oppliger, Erich Brechbühl, Giliane Cachin, Ladina Döring, Leonardo Angelucci, Léo Monnet, Priscilla Balmer, Sarah Owens. www.jungegrafik.ch
Applied Photography - Fall – 2023 STILL LIFE PAPER - This course focuses on the ability to answer a commission within its own artistic practice and leading the students through a better understanding of studio photography, challenges of constructed images and their processes. This applied photography course has an emphasis on still life photography, our aim is to sharpen the students sensitivity to photographing and interpreting objects. For this semester, the group of students will develop their own printed magazine focusing on the practice of still life.
Self-Initiated Project - Fall 2023 - MAP1 The course is a platform for the development of personal projects that arise from the desire and curiosity of each student. The basic concept of the work must be relevant to the field of contemporary photographic images. Each project can take a different form depending on the specificities, contents and inclinations of each participant. From books to multimedia installations, from performance to CGI, group discussions will articulate a plural vision of photography s applications today.
Photobook - Fall – 2023 The module introduces students to the history of photobooks and artists books prompting them to study different strategies and approaches to contemporary book-making. That will lead to students individually working on a publication that will be presented at evaluations in January 2023. Students will have the opportunity to create a new body of work in relation to the book form, learning about editing, sequencing and designing.