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Raphaël comme Geminiani What s in a name? Raphaël is trying to meet the man after whom he is named, a former cycling star. Documentary Synopsis What is a name? Raphaël seeks to meet the man whose name he bears, a former cycling star. Comment An absent father, too big, dead, but so present. A film that confronts this dead man with a living man (a friend of the father, a cyclist). And at the finish line, a "Rohmerian" director delivers his verdict: ghosts of all families, go fuck yourself. Jean-Stéphane Bron / Director
Shabbat, thank god ! 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. Fiction / 11min Synopsis 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. Comment With great freedom and while responding perfectly to the given commission - a meeting between a boy and a girl, in a comedy register - Jean-Guillaume directs Shabbat, Thank God! guided by the desire to make films for the spectator, that is to say, with a sense of rhythm, narration and cutting always very instinctive. Valérie Donzelli / Actress, director
Tristan Aymon – Ultima donna An elderly man from a middle-class family finds himself forced to pass the time with a new companion. Fiction / 17min Synopsis An elderly man from a middle-class family finds himself forced to pass the time with a new companion. Comment In Ultima donna there is a bath scene, where we feel that desire circulates between the elderly body and the young body of the home help. But above all we witness the love, and therefore the respect with which Tristan Aymon films this intimacy. The emotion comes perhaps from the fact that we witness at this precise moment something that is beyond words: this is called cinema. And it is sometimes rare in films. Lionel Baier / Director Festivals Vaulx-en-Velin, Festival du Film Court francophone, Prix de la presse Alès, Festival Cinéma d Alès, Grand Prix du Jury Alès, Festival Cinéma d Alès, Mention spéciale du Jury étudiants Padova, River Film Festival, Best Film School Genève, Festival Tous Ecrans, Reflet d Or du meilleur court métrage suisse
David Maye – Angela In front of the school where he teaches, Olivier is approached by a girl who is panhandling. He recognizes Angela, his youthful love. Embarrassed, she disappears... Fiction / 22min Synopsis In front of the college where he teaches, Olivier meets a girl who s asking for money. He recognizes Angela, his love from the past. Embarrassed, she leaves. The next day, he meets her again and invites her for a sandwich. She accepts. When Olivier has to pay, he does not find his wallet anymore and Angela has gone. Upset and fascinated, he will follow her in the city. Till what point is he going to trace her? Comment Angela, an angel lost in the city. A beautiful performance by the actress Nina Langensand in a short film by David Maye. Nurtured by personal experience, the young Valaisan director manages to transpose the elusive nature of his character with grace and without falling into cliché. Ruxandra Zenide / Director Festivals Istanbul, 23rd Istanbul International Short Film Festival Namur, 26e Festival international du film francophone Namur Sofia, 15th Sofia International Film Festival Rotterdam, 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Competition Solothurn, 46. Solothurner Filmtage, Saarbrücken, 32. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken, Competition Winterthur, 14. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Competition Brest, 25e Festival Européen du Film court de Brest, Competition Locarno, 63. Festival del film Locarno
Walking the Edit Developed in the framework of the Master cinema of the HES-SO, the project Walking the Edit seeks to combine the field of cinema and the territory of new technologies in order to try out the potentialities of narrative constructions between, on the one hand, an audio-visual geolocalized data base and, on the other hand, the recorded trajectory of a person passing through an urban space. Concretely, the device implemented during this research is as follows: Film making and indexing of the media A production team surveys a delimited territory and gather audiovisual fragments which reveal the specific characteristics of the space : details, portraits, meetings. Emphasis is placed on the uniqueness of the viewpoint and the intensity of the regard of the authors which document the reality. The collected images and sounds are then indexed and are assigned a geographical location on a digital map by the team of editors. Each audiovisual fragment constitutes a medium which is indexed according to objective and subjective attributes. Then, these attributes permit selection of the media according to the analysis of the visitor s trajectory. Realization of films by the visitors Equipped with an iPhone and the software created as part of the project, visitors wander through the urban space. They hear the soundtrack of the film they are walking and watch the editing process taking place on the screen of the IPhone. Their trajectory "awaken" the images and create links between them. Diffusion and exchanges Once the walk is completed, visitors become viewers. They can watch "their trajectories translated into films" on the project s internet website and they can publish them if they wish to do so. Each film thus generated makes it possible to (re)immerse oneself into the "digital memory" of the urban space. The process contributes to the construction of a collective memory of the city, made up of the various recorded walks: between the media documenting the territory and the imaginary of the walker, a living memory is consolidated; between the material city and the imaginary city, a third cinematographic city appears. A phase of valorization and widening of the project is currently supported with the help of various partners.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Ulrich Fischer (project leader)Research teamLionel Baier, Thomas Isler, Michel Bühler, Jean-François Blanc, Dimitri Delcourt, Florence Guillermin, Jeanne Macheret, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, Alexa Andrey, Nicolas Wagnières, Vincent Jacquier, Lionel Tardy, Daniel Sciboz, Gwenola Wagon, Pascal Amphoux, Nicolas GoyPeriod2007 – 2009Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)DisseminationWebsite walking-the-edit.net
Gilles Monnat – Kitsch Panorama Marco has a perfect life: he lives in a fine house, has a lovely family and a pretty girlfriend. But on his eighteenth birthday, he has an anxiety attack… Fiction / 15min Synopsis Marco has a perfect life: he lives in a fine house, has a lovely family and a pretty girlfriend. But on his eighteenth birthday, he has an anxiety attack… Comment Kitsch Panorama oscillates between genre film and auteur film. Huis-clos, black comedy, film-system which lets emerge little by little a subjective pain. The spectator then has the pleasure to become the witness of the birth of a personal universe. Frédéric Mermoud / Director Festivals Tel Aviv, 13. Int. Student Film Festival, Competition Solothurn, 45. Solothurner Filmtage Vaulx-en-Velin, 10e Festival du Film Court francophone, Competition Winterthur, 13. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Genève, 15e Cinéma Tous Ecrans – Festival international du cinéma et de télévision, Competition Locarno, 62. Festival del film Locarno, Competition - Prix «Cinema e Gioventù» du meilleur court métrage CH
Backstage Romeo and Juliet Directed with the students of the Master cinema ECAL x HEAD, Backstage Romeo and Juliet is an immersion in the backstage of a ballet at the Grand Theater of Geneva during a performance. Documentary Synopsis The show behind the show: Backstage Romeo and Juliet is an immersion in the backstage of a ballet at the Grand Theater of Geneva for the duration of a performance. A space where dancers, technicians and musicians evolve, where the extreme tension of the performance and the relaxed expectation, the physical excellence and the daily work are mixed. The interest is not to film the artistic process and the elaboration of a show, but rather the functioning of the "machinery" behind the stage, before, during and after the performance. To capture the gestures and actions of the actors, dancers and technicians, make-up artists, props makers, set designers, lighting directors... everything that is organized around the stage. The interest of the proposed exercise is to capture the interactions between people, the expectation, the tension, the signs of coordination.
Il movimento The “habitués” of the bar “Il Movimento” meet regularly to discuss, drink and to forget their worries. This tiny bar is particularly cosy with a warm and charming ambience... Documentary Synopsis The “habitués” of the bar “Il Movimento” meet regularly to discuss, drink and to forget their worries. This tiny bar is particularly cosy with a warm and charming ambience. This documentary takes us through the changes of the atmosphere and the different reactions of the guests in this microcosmos, as one day, one of them – a young friend – dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. Festivals and awards 2010 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel Bern, Festival Shnit 2009 Winterthur, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Spaghetti alle vongole 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. Documentary / 32min Synopsis 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. Comment Accompanying the sensitive and burning material of Lila s work to its intimate heart was like an indiscretion. I must say that it was for me, overwhelming. Didier Nion / Director Festivals Aosta, FrontDoc Rencontres documentaires de la vallée d Aoste, Competition - Grand Prix du Jury Nyon, 15e Visions du Réel - Festival international, Competition
Thibault de Chateauvieux – The visit A meeting with my brother, who works as a Catholic missionary in the Mexican district of a city in the USA. I am trying to understand him, trying to make a picture for myself of his new life, of the role model that he always was for me, to say goodbye, and also to put his view of the world to the test. Documentary / 42min Synopsis A meeting with my brother, who works as a Catholic missionary in the Mexican district of a city in the USA. I am trying to understand him, trying to make a picture for myself of his new life, of the role model that he always was for me, to say goodbye, and also to put his view of the world to the test. Should I make a place for myself inside his dream, or make it my own dream? If you occupy a place in someone else s dream, you are already defeated. Comment We only make films for personal reasons. The work of cinema, that of the filmmaker, consists in housing them in a territory that one would share with the audience. This first visit to Thibault de Chateauvieux s land gave me the feeling of being Christopher Columbus discovering the New World. Lionel Baier / Director Festivals Nyon, 15e Visions du Réel - Festival international
Léonore Baud – Lovers of the Nile Young couples in search of intimacy on the banks of the Nile in Cairo. Léonore Baud tries to catch them with her camera in a long tracking shot in a car; but as soon as the lovers feel observed, they stop snogging. Uncomfortable with this device, the director stops shooting. What she would like to do is to get out of the car and film the couples openly. A step that Egyptian moral rules make impossible however. Lovers of the Nile poses a fundamental question of the cinema of reality. Can we force people to be filmed? Documentary Synopsis Young couples in search of intimacy on the banks of the Nile in Cairo. Léonore Baud tries to catch them with her camera in a long tracking shot in a car, but as soon as the lovers feel they are being watched, they stop snogging. Uncomfortable with this device, the director stops shooting. What she would like to do is to get out of the car and film the couples openly. A step that Egyptian moral rules make impossible however. Lovers of the Nile poses a fundamental question of the documentary genre: can we force people to be filmed? Continuing her adventure, the filmmaker organizes a casting session where she chooses a couple to whom she proposes to play the game of love in front of the camera. But the young people do not succeed, because for them, kissing in public is transgressing the rules of propriety. Léonore Baud doesn t let herself be discouraged, and that s the whole point of her film. She is therefore going to be interested in the origins of these moral prohibitions. She starts looking for information on the subject from Egyptian filmmakers and the head of the censorship. They all told her that the gap between the Arab and Western world is deep, and that she had to accept that the ethical, moral and cultural rules that govern Egypt are different from her own. The filmmaker will therefore not make Lovers of the Nile, but will instead offer us a subtle reflection on the profession of filmmaker. Comment Making a documentary on lovers in Cairo: this is the project of a young Swiss student of cinema who quickly comes up against a term that is absolutely foreign to his work: censorship. A short journey through the world of contemporary Egyptian cinema in search of encounters, replies and confrontations with images and reality. Cécile Tanner ( Catalogue du Festival "Visons du Réel", 2008) Festivals and awards 2012 Bought by and broadcasted on TV5 Monde 2008 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel
Cycle de conférences « Ecrire le cinéma » How is cinema approached, told, understood, criticized, admired and heckled, what reflections, meditations and musings does it inspire, what pleasures and displeasures does it nourish? How is cinema approached, told, understood, criticized, admired and heckled, what reflections, meditations and musings does it inspire, what pleasures and displeasures does it nourish? In what states does the work of the critic, the theorist, the film historian struggle? While the spaces reserved for film criticism in the print, radio and television media are shrinking, while the amalgam between promotion, communication, journalism and film criticism is a generalized media strategy, the Master s degree in Cinema meets with personalities who take the time to write - again and again - about cinema. These are statements of commitments that are at one with the cinema, that speak to it, that question it and encourage it to circulate in inspired and necessarily, resolutely partisan dialogues. 4 conferences were proposed: Michel Ciment , historian and film critic, essayist - a historical figure in the great French tradition, linked to Positif, a reference magazine. Eugenio Renzi & Cyril Neyrat, critics, essayists - the new figures of the emancipated criticism on line (INDEPENDENCIA). From the elitist culture, for all, Frédéric Martel, French writer and journalist, author of Mainstream, investigates this culture that pleases everyone. Truffaut-Hitchock-Fassbinder, filmmakers from the nations, Robert Fischer, German writer and filmmaker, programmer of the Munich Film Festival, author of Fassbinder, by himself.
ECAL Resident at La Becque, from October 2019 to February 2020
Mario de Vega, sound artist from Mexico City currently based in Berlin, was the second ECAL Resident at La Becque, from October 2019 to February 2020. Sonority, presence and invisibility are the starting points of his artistic work and research. He taught in the BA and MA Fine Arts as well as in the BA Media & Interaction Design.
ECAL Resident at La Becque from February to July 2019
Mitch Paone, partner and creative director at renowned Brooklyn-based creative design agency DIA Studio. Specialized in kinetic identity systems, graphic design and typography, Mitch Paone spent four months at La Becque developing his own research project while guest lecturing during the entire spring semester at ECAL, in the Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes.
Born in 1993, Thaddé Comar is a French-Swiss photographer who graduated from ECAL in 2018. His work explores contemporary social and political dynamics, with a particular focus on protest movements. He has dedicated several years to documenting the Black Bloc movement in Paris. In 2022, he published How Was Your Dream? (Mörel Books), a book on the protests in Hong Kong between June and October 2019, addressing new forms of insurrection in surveillance societies. His photographs have been regularly exhibited, including at the Rencontres d'Arles, the Photographic Center of Geneva, Art Basel, and the 7L Bookstore. He currently lives in Paris.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in july 2022 - BA Graphic Design graduate 2008
Art director and graphic designer, Emmanuel Crivelli explores the editorial world by questioning paper and digital formats. After his studies in graphic design at ECAL, he works with Philippe Jarrigeon and Sylvain Menétrey for the magazine Dorade - "Revue galante, photographie et formes critiques", which won the Swiss Design Awards in 2012. He then creates, in collaboration with an editorial team, POV Paper and POV magazine, which deal with gender and sexualities. In 2018, he won the mandate from the Federal Office of Culture to create the visual identity of the Swiss Design Awards until 2021. This project becomes a digital editorial content lab, with interactive articles, talks and live chats.
ECAL Resident at La Becque from October 2020 to January 2021
Danielle Lessovitz, screenwriter and film director based in Brooklyn (New York), has been invited to teach in the Cinema department of ECAL for the fall semester 2020-2021. She will simultaneously work on her future film projects. Her practice varies between filmmaking and artistic or video installations. Her projects typically focus on marginalized communities and she often stars non-professional actors.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in July 2021 - BA Industrial design graduate 2018
Iskander Guetta (BA Industrial Design) explored the reception and housing conditions of homeless people with his diploma project ABRI+, finalist at the Swiss Design Awards 2019. He undertook a trip to Morocco to explore design practices outside the neo-liberal Western world and an internship at the SELCO Foundation in Bangalore (IND). It allowed him to gain a better understanding of design in the Global South, in order to better perceive the intersecting issues of ecology and decolonization, which he tends to bring to bear in his practice. At La Becque, he will explore the potential and use of atomic shelters in the face of contemporary urban issues (project developed in collaboration with Tanguy Caversaccio, architect).
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ECAL Resident at La Becque, spring semester 2022
Irene Vlachou, born in 1981, is based in Athens, Greece. She gained her Masters in type design at the University of Reading in 2004. She subsequently started to collaborate with international type foundries and corporations, working as a type designer and as a Greek type consultant. In 2012, she released Colvert Greek with typographies.fr. From 2013 to 2019, she was a senior designer and variable font expert at Type-Together. She has been participating since 2017 in the Google Summer of Code on behalf of the Greek Open Source Community (GFOSS), as a mentor on the expansion of Greek libre fonts. She is currently working full time freelancing Greek and variable font for retail and OEM/System fonts. In 2017, in collaboration with Laurenz Brunner, she designed the Greek counterpart of the Documenta14 exhibition’s identity font, Bradford Greek. She launched FauxFoundry (2019), together with Laurence Penney, a webfont service using variable font technology that provides automatic fallback fonts when the main font lacks characters. She is a guest lecturer for the MA in Type Design and the BA in Graphic Design at ECAL.
Directeur artistique
NICOLAS POILLOT (B. 1978) IS A FREELANCE ART DIRECTOR AND CREATIVE CONSULTANT.
AFTER WORKING FOR 8 YEARS IN ADVERTISING AGENCIES AS AN ART DIRECTOR, FOR THE HAVAS GROUP, HE JOINED VICE MAGAZINE (FRANCE) IN 2010 AS THE PHOTO EDITOR.
IN 2012, NICOLAS CO-FOUNDED ÉTUDES, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FASHION LABEL, PUBLISHING HOUSE, AND CREATIVE AGENCY WHERE HE OVERSAW THE BRAND'S VISUAL CONTENT, AS WELL AS THE PUBLISHING HOUSE.
AS MUCH AS HE LOVES SUPERVISING PHOTO SHOOTS AND TAKING A STEP BACK BEHIND THE CAMERA, NICOLAS IS ALSO A KEEN PHOTOGRAPHER. HIS AESTHETIC OSCILLATES BETWEEN DOCUMENTARY AND FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, STAYING IN LINE WITH HIS ART DIRECTION PRACTICE.
ECAL Resident at La Becque, fall semester 2023
Born in 1978, Alejo Moguillansky is an Argentinian director, producer, screenwriter and editor whose films have been shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlinale, the Locarno Film Festival and the Viennale, among others, and have been the subject of numerous retrospectives. Co-founder of the production company El Pampero Cine and programmer for the VECINE festival, Moguillansky also teaches cinema at the Universidad del Cine and the Universidad Di Tella in Buenos Aires, where he is also a member of the Revista de Cine.
Alejo Moguillansky’s teaching semester at the Cinema Department of the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) will include a workshop on the process of directorial research, as a generator of new possible forms for cinematographic creation.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Charles Engman is an artist, photographer, educator, and creative director for the sustainable fashion brand Collina Strada. His multidisciplinary practice examines the social and emotional dimensions of imagery and hyper-visibility in contemporary culture, with a focus on the body as a site of mediation between the self and otherness.
Engman’s recent work integrates generative AI, positioning him at the forefront of exploring how technology shapes and transforms the visual and emotional dynamics of contemporary life. His use of AI questions how disembodied technologies mediate representations of the body, visual identity, and cultural production, offering a critical insight into the evolving relationships between labor, capital, and creativity.
Engman is the author of three books: MOM (2020), a long-term collaborative project with his mother that explores representation and intimacy; Hello Chaos: A Love Story – The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen (2024), a genre-defying critical theory book examining contemporary visual culture; and Cursed (2024), an artist monograph entirely created with generative AI.
Alongside his creative projects, Engman works as a commercial image maker, primarily in the fashion industry, using this practice to research, explore, and engage with the role of advertising in shaping social space and contemporary notions of the self. For his residency at La Becque, he will deepen these themes by developing a new body of work that reflects his ongoing research into image-making, the body, and the economies of visibility.