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Anaïs Lehmann – Line – 2022 We all know about the scourge of plastic waste in our oceans, but did you know that there is even more plastic in our soils? This is what the latest report from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) has revealed. Indeed, with its pots, nets, and various types of films, plastic is everywhere in the food-processing industry and our agricultural land is polluted by micro-particles. Line is a reusable and 100% natural alternative to plastic mulching film. Made from linen oiled with linseed oil, it is extremely durable and does not release any chemical particles into the soil. Its woven or folding strip systems offer great flexibility of use for various types of planting with variable spacing.
Laure Wasser – Eventa Eventa is an adapted diary that is designed for elderly people with cognitive problems, particularly relating to memory, and can be essential in enabling them to remain independent in their own home while offering complete peace of mind. On a tablet of their choice, elderly people use a digital app that enables them to contact their loved ones by text message or phone call. It also provides them with a diary that emits sounds to remind them of their daily events. The simplified keyboard is integrated into the shell of the tablet. It allows direct, non-touch navigation in the application. The device evolves as the disease worsens. In addition, caregivers and relatives can easily interact with Eventa by text message or by adding events to monitor the patient.
Samara Krähenbühl – Il est passé tout à l heure, il m a dit de rien dire « At the turning point of the transition to adulthood, childhood and its memories re-emerge more than ever. Through a short film at the edge of video art, I question how to overcome one s traumas and reappropriate one s life experiences and grey areas. Because of its dreamlike character, the film takes on a surrealist tone. Through visual metaphors and mental imagery, I exorcise an intimate and painful episode of my childhood.»
Basil Pérot – As Long as You Wait This short film is about expressing our inability to come to terms with reality, especially during traumatic events. To reach this state of osmosis, we try to observe, feel, and listen as intensely as we can. This is how Pola s character tries to grasp reality, as she slowly sinks into madness, between paranoia and identity crisis. The project appears as a transcription of Pola s point of view and of the feelings she experiences. A book will compile Pola s thoughts that she writes throughout the film in a burst of lucidity through which she tries to convince herself that what she is experiencing is real.
Milagros Rodríguez – Swoosh Swoosh is a light, generated by the energy of the wind. Its glow bears witness to the presence and intensity of the wind, while its propeller reveals the direction of air currents. Swoosh explores the structures of natural phenomena as a way to reintroduce us to their principles, which many times seem invisible but are in fact tangible, as they can be traced and understood.
Tudor Ciurescu – The Dream I Still Have The rotating sculpture showcased in this exhibition, named The Dream I Still Have, is a reproduction of the artist s childhood swing, a rusty post-Soviet swing that holds a forgotten character. The character draws inspiration from Glenn/Shiftace, the non-gendered animatronic with a Freudian complex from the Hollywood film Chucky that was shot in Romania. The continuous movement of the swing aims to transpose the viewer into a state of reflection – a movement that relates to the swiping of videos on TikTok and the subject of Guy Debord s book, Society of the Spectacle. The work s movement is activated by a human presence thanks to sensors – the human presence being essential. Just like a theme park, art becomes a place to feel fear without the consequences.
Rokhaya Balde – La passion d Aline (Screenplay) My graduation project is a version 1.0 of a feature film script on the life of Aline Sitoé Diatta. Aline is a heroine of the Senegalese resistance and particularly of Casamance against French colonisation in the 1920s and 1940s. Feature film screenplay Synopsis My graduation project is a version 1.0 of a feature film script on the life of Aline Sitoé Diatta. Aline is a heroine of the Senegalese resistance and particularly of Casamance against French colonisation in the 1920s and 1940s. this project is the continuation of a work that I had already started with my previous short film Seeking Aline.
Léa Célestine Bernasconi – The mountains are still growing (Sound) My job was to create the soundtrack for this film from sound recording to mixing and editing. Fiction / 30 min Synopsis Laurence, a Parisian in her fifties, is spending a few days in an isolated holiday cottage in the Lozère, in southern France. She has really come here to meet Antoine, 27, the owner of the property and to give him a letter. As they try to get to know each another, a strange atmosphere develops between the two of them. Laurence finds it really difficult to give him the envelope and reveal what is inside.
Victor Comte – Carne (Screenplay) This is the first draft of a feature film script, written over the two years of the MA programme. Feature film screenplay Synopsis The film is about a young girl, Diane, who lives with her younger brother Arthur and her parents on a farm in the Swiss countryside. One day, the father, who is a hunter, brings home a trophy of a terrifying beast. The little brother, fascinated by this creature, gets a little too close to it one evening and ends up injuring himself on its bristling jaw. Diane witnesses the scene and tries to tend to her little brother, but she quickly realises that Arthur s wound is closing by itself. Quickly, Diane starts noticing her brother s growing taste for red meat…
Massimo Del Gaudio – Le défilé (Sound) I worked on Michail Galanopoulos graduation film: Le défilé. I went to Greece in November 2021 to work on the film as sound recordist and location mixer. I then worked on the post production as sound editor, sound designer and mixer. Fiction / 24 min Synopsis A group of high school students meet to participate in the national parade with their school. A student, is bullied by the teacher because of her nationality. They react, defend her and the conflict becomes intense. To avoid the consequences, they decide to run away. They settle on the top of a nearby hill and spend the rest of the day there, as an act of escapism. Up there, they seem to have forgotten their anxieties and problems, as if they were in another world. Student s comment I worked on Michail Galanopoulos graduation film: Le défilé. I went to Greece in November 2021 to work on the film as sound recordist and location mixer. I then worked on the post production as sound editor, sound designer and mixer.
Antoine Flahaut – The Parade (Editing) The editing of this film was a meticulous balancing act, consisting less of searching for clean and sophisticated cuts than of finding for each scene the brutality, the power, the troubled swirl of emotions that inhabit this group of teenagers fleeing through the streets of Athens. Fiction / 24 min Synopsis A group of high school students meet to participate in the national parade with their school. A student, is bullied by the teacher because of her nationality. They react, defend her and the conflict becomes intense. To avoid the consequences, they decide to run away. They settle on the top of a nearby hill and spend the rest of the day there, as an act of escapism. Up there, they seem to have forgotten their anxieties and problems, as if they were in another world. Student s comment To embody the energy of a rebellious adolescence in search of self, which is at the heart of the story of his film, Michail decided to give his young actors (amateurs and non-professionals) freedom of space and movement in scenes designed as long improvisations followed by a camera that stuck to the bodies of the characters. The editing was a meticulous balancing act, consisting less of searching for clean and sophisticated cuts than of finding for each scene the brutality, the power, the troubled swirl of emotions that inhabit this group of teenagers fleeing through the streets of Athens.
Michail Galanopoulos – The Parade (Direction) A day in the life of a group of high school students in Athens, Greece, during the day of the national military parade. Fiction / 24 min Synopsis A group of high school students meet to participate in the national parade with their school. A student, is bullied by the teacher because of her nationality. They react, defend her and the conflict becomes intense. To avoid the consequences, they decide to run away. They settle on the top of a nearby hill and spend the rest of the day there, as an act of escapism. Up there, they seem to have forgotten their anxieties and problems, as if they were in another world. Student s comment The film s cinematographic approach is anthropocentric and strongly focused on the characters of the story. The use of handheld camera allows us to follow multiple characters, not limiting the actors movements, but also giving them the freedom to experience the real locations in which they are filmed. The editing, with breaks in the axis several times in the duration of a scene, connecting several shots that depict the same action and pass from one character to another, was chosen specifically for this type of cinematography. The sound establishes continuity throughout each scene.
Jiahui Huang – The mountains are still growing (Editing) Laurence, a Parisian in her fifties, is spending a few days in an isolated holiday cottage in southern France. There she meets Antoine, the young owner of the place. Antoine is a little boorish and macho and tries to seduce her. But Laurence is there for a specific purpose: to give him a letter containing a secret. Fiction / 30 min Synopsis Laurence, a Parisian in her fifties, is spending a few days in an isolated holiday cottage in the Lozère, in southern France. She has really come here to meet Antoine, 27, the owner of the property and to give him a letter. As they try to get to know each another, a strange atmosphere develops between the two of them. Laurence finds it really difficult to give him the envelope and reveal what is inside. Student s comment During my two years of study, I learned the skills necessary to become a professional film editor (AVID editing software, sound collaboration, colour grading). Workshop after workshop, I learned from my teachers and classmates how to think like a professional film editor: how to convey the emotions of the audience; when to slow down the pace and when to speed it up; what shots to select; how to communicate with the director to help them make the film they want, as it was the case with Marie Chemin.
Matthias Joulaud – Ramboy (Direction) Ramboy is a 30-minute documentary short film, the result of work done with a family of sheep farmers on an Irish island. Being immersed for several months in this island allowed me to weave strong links and to offer a documentary which condenses at the same time problems related to the adolescence of a young boy, and to the hard social and economic reality of a trade whose traditions are under threat. Documentary / 30 min Synopsis On Achill Island, a predominantly sheep-populated island off the west coast of Ireland, Cian tries his best to train his grandfather s sheep dog, Martin. From an opening scene that shows the teenager struggling with disobedient animals and a patient but firm grandfather, the long and rigorous apprenticeship of farm work begins, during a summer he would have preferred to spend with his friends. Wearing a soccer jersey and city sneakers, Cian is confronted with the harshness and demands of a job that he admires and respects, but in which he is not sure he has a long term vision.
Balthus Kiss – In Vitro (Screenplay) Through Caillou s point of view, In Vitro enables us to look at the world as through a broken mirror. Which reflection should we trust? Feature film screenplay Synopsis Caillou (27), a staff member of a Geneva nightclub, is found far from his home with no memory of who he is. Diagnosed as a victim of dissociative amnesia, he meets his mother Élise (53), his colleague and friend Egon (29), but especially Calvin himself. The more Caillou goes in search of his identity and memories, the more his loved ones will be forced to learn to forget… Through Caillou s point of view, In Vitro enables us to look at the world as through a broken mirror. Which reflection should we trust? This work was followed attentively by my tutors, Nadine Lamari, Alice Winocour and Michel Spinoza.
Marine Maye – Mountain Flesh (Sound) The summer idyll is disturbed by recurring noises while a mountain village loses its foundations. Documentary / 18 min Synopsis Hikers pass by, while the village fountain gently sputters and the church bells ring out across the valley. But the idyll of summer is disturbed by recurring noises. Will the mountain come or not? As a mountain village loses its foundations, the crumbling becomes louder and louder. Student s comment Mountain Flesh is a short documentary by Valentina Sashivari that tells the story of a village in Graubünden threatened by the mountain that overlooks it. I carried out the entire sound production process for the short film. The main task was to work on the sounds taken during the shooting to create the sound identity of the film and particularly the specific sounds which translate the point of view of the rock. One of the challenges was to convey a world that is running to ruin without falling into tragedy – a very subtle threat that I worked on thanks to sound design and sound mixing. Marine Maye
Yatoni Roy Cantu – Ramboy (Sound) Ramboy provided me with the opportunity to look after the whole sound process of a film, from the sound recording to the music, the editing and the mixing. It was a real adventure. Documentary / 30 min Synopsis On Achill Island, a predominantly sheep-populated island off the west coast of Ireland, Cian tries his best to train his grandfather s sheep dog, Martin. From an opening scene that shows the teenager struggling with disobedient animals and a patient but firm grandfather, the long and rigorous apprenticeship of farm work begins, during a summer he would have preferred to spend with his friends. Wearing a soccer jersey and city sneakers, Cian is confronted with the harshness and demands of a job that he admires and respects, but in which he is not sure he has a long term vision. Student s comment Ramboy was a chance for me to take care of the whole sound chain of a film. From the sound recording, to the music, to the editing, to the mixing. It was a real adventure. I had to adapt to the documentary conditions and the sometimes complicated weather on Achill Island, as well as find the right tone for the music. The collaboration with Matthias Joulaud and Lucien Roux was extremely fruitful and I believe we succeeded in drawing the portrait we wanted to make of this island and its inhabitants.
Alexandre Lescieux – Radiolar Radiolar was inspired by Heinrich Jost s Jost Mediaeval (1927), which marked a turning point in typography, as geometrically constructed sans serif typefaces started appearing, namely Erbar (1926), Kabel (1927), and Futura, which was published under Jost s own direction by Bauer. Jost Antiqua seems to be the first serif typeface to go down this utopian path of elementary typography. How does one synthesise the geometric and the organic in typography? Radiolar, named after the spherical marine micro-organisms whose skeletons are made up of highly detailed spicules, attempts to answer this question. Its forms have the intense warmth of calligraphy and the utopia of rationality through geometry, oscillating between complexity and simplicity.
Iris Moine – Twist Twist was thought out as part of the upcoming industrial design exhibition at mudac - Musée cantonal de design et d arts appliqués contemporains. The aim of this project is to engage children s curiosity about design, for whom the idea of visiting a museum is often not the most exciting. How can we encourage a stimulating visit and discovery of the exhibits? By bringing out an object from the exhibition, the Bold chair by Big-Game studio, this project transforms it into an interactive installation. Guided by a character on screen, children are invited to interact with certain parts of the chair: sitting, pinching, turning, etc. These interactions trigger games, and information is presented in a playful way, thus creating a direct and memorable relationship with the object and raising awareness of design.
Paolo Moretti appointed head of the ECAL Cinema Department As of September 1, 2022, Paolo Moretti will become the new head of the Cinema Department at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. Director and programmer of festivals, notably of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival, Paolo Moretti will take over the responsibility of the Cinema Department of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne in September 2022. He will succeed Pauline Gygax as head of the Bachelor Cinema program and Lionel Baier for the Master Cinema program (co-directed by HEAD Geneva). "I am above all very grateful to ECAL for offering me this opportunity. I am excited to continue the work initiated by Lionel Baier, then Pauline Gygax and to confront myself with a new dimension of the transmission of the codes and languages of contemporary cinema", says Paolo Moretti. After studying modern literature, between 2001 and 2008, Paolo Moretti worked for several film festivals and institutions in Europe, including the Centre Pompidou, the Filmoteca Española, the Cinemateca Portuguesa, the Leeds Film Festival and Cinéma du Réel. From 2008 to 2011, he was assistant to the director and programming advisor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012 and 2013, he is a programming advisor for the Rome Film Festival (CinemaXXI). Since 2012, he has been collaborating with the Visions du Réel festival (Nyon), first as a member of the selection committee (2012-2017), then as an artistic advisor. From 2012 to 2018, he is also a member of the selection committee of FIDMarseille. He is the associate producer of the American independent feature film L for Leisure by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2014. Between 2014 and 2020, he works as a director of the La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival and of the art house cinema Le Concorde. Between 2018 and 2022, he is the general delegate of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival. Since 2020, he has been the director of the art house cinema Les Cinémas du Grütli in Geneva, where he will be able to continue to carry out his mission in conjunction with ECAL, thanks to a redistribution of tasks, notably administrative, of the Geneva institution. "Paolo Moretti has an exceptional network and a rich and varied international experience, punctuated by numerous successes. Through his desire to constantly highlight the films of young talent, he has established himself over time as a valuable and privileged interlocutor for filmmakers and the industry. I am sure that his approach as an outstanding facilitator will suit our students perfectly and will lead them to progress even further and to surpass themselves", says Alexis Georgacopoulos, ECAL Director. For the Bachelor Cinema program, Paolo Moretti will replace Pauline Gygax - who will keep a part of her teaching at ECAL, but will concentrate primarily on her activity as a producer, the intensity of which obliges her to reduce her workload within the Cinema Department. As for Lionel Baier, co-director of the Master Cinema program, he will continue his career as a director, while also maintaining a teaching schedule at the Lausanne school. ECAL would like to take this opportunity to thank them for all their work and for having contributed to the fact that its film courses are considered among the best internationally. Contacts - Alexis Georgacopoulos, ECAL Director: alexis.georgacopoulos@ecal.ch - Pauline Gygax, current head of the Bachelor Cinema: pauline.gygax@ecal.ch - Lionel Baier, current co-head of the Master Cinema: lionel.baier@ecal.ch
Information Design – 2022 For the information design course the students have been asked to design a cartographic poster based on a film in the road movie genre, in a direct or abstract representation.
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Workshops ECAL x Ferme des Tilleuls - Cinema and Photography,06–15.07.2022,Ferme des Tilleuls, Rue de Lausanne 52 1020 Renens ECAL x Ferme des Tilleuls: Workshop cinema « One shot » by Patrick Muroni & workshop Photography "Dialogue en images" by Margot Sparkes Workshop cinema « One shot » by Patrick Muroni Wednesday 6 July, Thursday 7 July and Friday 8 July from 1pm to 5.30pm Participants will be asked to think about a short film scene that tells the story of a character in less than a minute, and in a single sequence shot. After viewing a few scenes from different films and becoming familiar with the use of a camera, participants will be divided into small groups and will write a very short sequence, which they will direct and act out. Patrick Muroni is a Swiss film director who graduated from the Ba in Film Studies at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. He won the artistic encouragement prize of the city of Renens during his studies. After his training, he directed "Un matin d été", his first self-produced short fiction film, which was selected in several festivals around the world. He then directed his second short film, "Les Sentinelles", which was also selected in several countries. "Ardente-x-s" is his first feature-length documentary film, scheduled for release in 2022. Audience: 13 to 18 years old (max. 8 participants) What to bring: notebook, pen and if possible a smartphone Price (4.5 hour workshop): CHF 20.00 for inhabitants of Renens, CHF 40.00 for others Location: Ferme des Tilleuls, Rue de Lausanne 52 1020 Renens Language: French Payment in advance of the workshop, registration required at lfdt@fermedestilleuls.ch Workshop Photography "Dialogue en images" by Margot Sparkes Wednesday 13 July, Thursday 14 July, Friday 15 July from 1pm to 5.30pm In this workshop, participants will learn how to tell a story through several photographs. After an introduction to photography and some technical advice, participants will do a short research to define the "story" of their set of images, and make them. The photographs will then be printed and shown to the other participants, with a short explanation by each of them on their approach. Margot Sparkes (born in 1993 in Paris) is an independent artist, photographer and video maker who graduated from the ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne (2020). She lives and works in Lausanne. Her practice explores the way our environment shapes our behaviour and our feelings. Through video, photography and sculpture, she seeks to generate representations and perceptions that question our relationship to what surrounds us, deploying new imaginaries that interweave several forms of reality, existence and narratives. Recently, her diploma work At Night There is No Sun has been included in the collection of the FRAC Poitou-Charentes (France). Audience: 13 to 18 years old (max. 10 participants) What to bring: smartphone with working camera (compulsory!) Price (4,5h workshop): CHF 20 for inhabitants of Renens, CHF 40 for others Location: Ferme des Tilleuls, Rue de Lausanne 52 1020 Renens Language: French Payment in advance of the workshop, registration required at lfdt@fermedestilleuls.ch In partnership with La Ferme des Tilleuls and Ville de Renens.
Awards & Grants 2022 On July 1st, the various prizes and grants were awarded to the ECAL alumni during the 2022 graduation ceremony. Congratulations again to them and thank you for their devotion throughout their formation. PROMOTIONS BACHELOR - Prix 2022 Prix de l Année Propédeutique - CHF 500.- x3 Un prix décerné à trois étudiant·e·s de l Année Propédeutique de l ECAL qui se sont distingué·e·s par l excellence de leur travail et qui ont obtenu les meilleurs résultats de leur volée. Remis par David Monnet, responsable de l Année Propédeutique Gaia Vitali (PPdi) – CHF 500.- Eliot Dubi (PPdg) – CHF 500.- Inès Riber (PPph) - CHF 500.- ----- Prix EXECAL - CHF 1 000.- Un prix décerné à un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e qui s est distingué·e par la qualité de son mémoire de Bachelor. Remis par Catherine Othenin-Girard, Présidente EXECAL Mara Wohlfahrt (DG) – CHF 1 000.- ----- Prix Visarte Vaud - CHF 1 000.- Un prix décerné à un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e en Arts Visuels qui s est distingué·e par l excellence de son travail. Remis par Patricia Glave, présidente de Visarte Vaud Roxane Christinet (AV) – CHF 1 000.- ----- Prix du Risque - CHF 1 000.- Un prix décerné à un·e étudiant·e particulièrement talentueux·euse dans le domaine des Arts Visuels. Remis par Stéphane Kropf, responsable du Bachelor Arts Visuels Maria Esteves (AV) – CHF 1 000.- ----- Prix METAA - CHF 1 000.- Un prix décerné à un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e en Media & Interaction Design qui s est distingué·e par une approche prospective et expérimentale lors de son travail de diplôme.. Remis par Joëlle Aeschlimann, présidente de l association METAA: Media Experiments in Technology and Art Association Samuel Dumez (MID) – CHF 1 000.- ----- Prix Jacqueline Veuve - CHF 1 000.- Un prix décerné à un·e étudiant·e en cinéma qui s est distingué·e au cours de l année par la qualité de ses réalisations ou de son travail technique. Ce prix rend hommage à Jacqueline Veuve, grande documentariste suisse décédée en 2013. Remis par Lionel Baier, Professeur au département cinéma à l ECAL, réalisateur Solène Mercier (CI) – CHF 1 000.- ----- Prix ECAL – CHF 1 500.- Un prix décerné à un.e étudiant·e diplômé·e qui s est distingué·e par l excellence de leur travail tout au long de leur cursus à l ECAL Remis par Stépahne Halmaï-Voisard, responsable du Bachelor Design Industriel Alex Nguyen (DI) – CHF 1 500.- ----- Prix BG Ingénieurs Conseils - CHF 1 500.- Un prix décerné à un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e, auteur·e d un projet qui prend en compte le développement durable, en particulier ses aspects économiques, environnementaux et sociaux. Remis par Anne-Claire Pliska, Directrice de la Planification Stratégique et de l Innovation de la société BG Ingénieurs Conseils SA Lara Zettl (DG) – CHF 1 500.- ----- Prix BCV - CHF 2 000.- Un prix decerné à un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e en Media & Interaction Design qui s est distingué·e par la qualité d ensemble de son travail. Remis par Pauline Saglio, responsable du Bachelor Media & Interaction Design Nora Fatehi (MID) – CHF 2 000.- ----- Prix de la Ville de Renens - CHF 2 000.- Un prix d encouragement décerné à un·e étudiant·e en 2e année Bachelor Communication Visuelle qui s est distingué·e par la qualité de son travail. La possibilité est offerte à le·la lauréat·e· d exposer son travail à la Ferme des Tilleuls à Renens. Remis par Tinetta Maystre, Conseillère municipale à la Ville de Renens Lea Sblandano (2CVph) – CHF 2 000.- ----- Prix d excellence du domaine Design et Arts Visuels de la HES-SO - CHF 2 500.- Un prix décerné à un·e étudiant·e de l ECAL qui s est distingué·e par l excellence de son travail de diplôme. Remis par Gaetano Massa, Adjoint scientifique Domaine Design et Arts visuels de la HES-SO Yan Ciszewski (CI) – CHF 2 500.- ----- Prix Profot – Elinchrom One Dual Flash Kit avec trépieds et parapluies d une valeur de CHF 3 000.- Un prix destiné à un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e en Bachelor Photographie qui a réalisé un excellent travail de diplôme. Remis par Sandro Bizzarro, Conseiller Digital Imaging chez Profot SA Florian Hilt (PH) – Elinchrom One Dual Flash kit avec trépieds et parapluies d une valeur de CHF 3 000.- ----- Prix La Foncière – CHF 3 000.- Un prix décerné par la Foncière, un fonds de placement immobilier, à un·e étudiant·e méritant·e pour le travail accompli durant l année en Photographie. Remis par Thomas Vonaesch, directeur à la Foncière Lisa Mazenauer (PH) – CHF 3 000.- ----- Prix Ernest Manganel – CHF 4 000.- Un prix décerné par le jury de la Fondation Ernest Manganel à un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e en Arts Visuels, pour récompenser la pertinence de sa recherche et la qualité très professionnelle de son travail de diplôme. Remis par Catherine Othenin-Girard, membre du Conseil de la Fondation Manganel Salomé Engel (AV) – 4 000.- ----- SDA Bachelor Award 2022 – Membre SDA durant 3 ans + coaching entrepreneurial individuel pour le développement de son projet de diplôme) Un prix qui récompense un·e étudiant·e Bachelor pour l excellence de son travail de diplôme. Le SDA Bachelor Award offre au lauréat·e la possibilité de devenir membre SDA durant 3 ans ainsi qu un coaching entrepreneurial individuel pour le développement de son projet de diplôme. Remis par Géraldine Morand, membre de la SDA : Swiss Design Association Anaïs Lehmann (DI) – Possibilité de devenir membre SDA durant 3 ans + coaching entrepreneurial individuel pour le développement de son projet de diplôme. ----- Bourses Fondation Walter + Eve Kent - CHF 5 000.- Deux bourses décernées à des étudiant·e·s particulièrement talentueux·euses dans le domaine de la peinture et de la sculpture. Remises par Stéphane Kropf, responsable du Bachelor Arts Visuels au nom de la Fondation Walter + Eve Kent Nolan Lucidi (2AV) – CHF 5 000.- Mathilde Hansen (2AV) – CHF 5 000.- ----- Prix Plateforme 10 x ECAL – Exposition présentée à Plateforme 10 en collaboration avec l ECAL et CHF 5 000.- Un prix destiné à récompenser un·e étudiant·e diplômé·e en Bachelor Media & Interaction Design qui s est distingué·e par une utilisation prospective et poétique de nouvelles technologies. Ce prix permettra entre autres le développement du projet en vue d une première visibilité publique à travers une exposition de la lauréat·e, tout en renforçant les liens entre l ECAL et Plateforme 10. Remis par M. Patrick Gyger, Directeur général Plateforme 10 Mélanie Fontaine (MID) – Une exposition présentée à Plateforme10 en collaboration avec l ECAL et CHF 5 000.- ----- Prix Pierre Keller – CHF 5 000.- En mémoire de Pierre Keller, directeur de l ECAL de 1995 à 2011. Un prix décerné pour un travail de diplôme particulièrement engagé. Remis par Alexis Georgacopoulos, directeur de l ECAL et M. Vincent Jacquier, responsable du Département Communication Visuelle à l ECAL Morgane Cachin (DG) – CHF 5 000.- ----- Bourse Fondation Casino Barrière de Montreux – CHF 8 000.- Une bourse décernée à un·e étudiant·e sur le point d accomplir son année de diplôme. Le choix a été effectué en fonction de son talent et de son sens de la créativité. Remise par Jakob Hlasek, président de la Fondation Casino Barrière de Montreux Antonin Maudry (2DG) – CHF 8 000.- ----- Prix BNP Paribas Double Clap – CHF 10 000.- Un prix qui met en avant les jeunes talents du cinéma issus de l ECAL et contribue à la réalisation d un film de diplôme Bachelor. Remis par Isabelle Pezzoni, Company Engagement Event manager chez BNP Paribas Marion Reymond (CI) – CHF 10 000.- ----- Prix Freestudios de l Image – Bon pour l étalonnage complet d un court-métrage professionnel dans les locaux de Freestudios à Genève, d une valeur de CHF 15 000.-) Un prix à un·e étudiant·e en spécialisation Image qui s est distingué·e par la qualité de son travail aussi bien au niveau artistique que technique. Ce Prix souligne les ponts vertueux entre le monde académique et professionnel au moment de l entrée dans ce dernier des étudiants diplômant à travers de l étroite collaboration entre Freestudios et le Département Cinéma. Remis par Boris Rabusseau, représentant FreeStudios Dario Willommet (CI) – Bon pour l étalonnage complet d un court-métrage professionnel dans les locaux de Freestudios, d une valeur de CHF 15 000.- MASTER GRADUATION- Awards 2022 EXECAL Award - CHF 1 000.- A prize awarded to a graduate student who has distinguished himself/herself by the quality of his/her Master s thesis. Presented by Yoo-Mi Steffen, EXECAL Secretary Amélie Gallay (TD) – CHF 1 000.- ----- Eyes on Talents Award (Professional support) Three prizes awarded by the Paris-based agency Eyes on Talents to graduate projects with high potential in terms of sustainability, social impact or technological integration. The winners will benefit from a professional support and a media follow-up as well as an increased visibility among the agency s network of partners. Presented by Astrid de Montessus, representative of Eyes on Talents Raphaela Häfliger (TD) Carolin Schelkle (DP) ----- David Rust Award - CHF 1 000.- A prize awarded by In Rust We Trust to a graduate student who has distinguished himself/herself by the quality of his/her typographic work. The winner is offered the opportunity to publish a visual that will be used to collect donations for the Design against Cancer action (led by the association). Presented by Angelo Benedetto, founding member of the association in rust we trust* Karima Deghayli (TD) – CHF 1 000.- ----- BG Ingénieurs Conseils Award - CHF 1 500.- A prize awarded to a graduate student, author of a project that takes into account sustainable development, in particular its economic, environmental and social aspects. Presented by Camille Blin head of Master Product Design, on behalf of BG Consulting Engineers Paul Rees (DP) – CHF 1 500.- ----- PPF: Prix Pangram Finesse - 2500$CAD (equivalent in Swiss Francs + 1 jersey) A prize awarded to a graduate student, who has distinguished himself/herself by the sharpness in the attention to details, as well as a global concept that fits the current trends in graphic design. Presented by Matthieu Cortat, head of Master Type Design, on behalf of Pangram Pangram Joana Siniavskaja (TD) – 2500$CAD (equivalent in Swiss Francs) + 1 jersey ----- Encouragement Award - City of Renens - CHF 2 000.- An encouragement prize awarded to a student in the 1st year of the Master Fine Arts who has distinguished himself/herself by the quality of his/her work. The winner is offered the opportunity to exhibit his/her work at the La Ferme des Tilleuls in Renens. Presented by Nathalie Jaccard, Conseillère municipale en charge de la Direction Culture-Jeunesse-Affaire scolaire à la Ville de Renens Luis Rodriguez (1DP) – CHF 2 000.- ----- HES-SO Design & Fine Arts Excellence Award - CHF 2 500.- A prize awarded to an ECAL student who has distinguished himself/herself by the excellence of his/her diploma work. Presented by Gaetano Massa, Scientific Assistant Design and Fine Arts HES-SO Luca Frati (AV) – CHF 2 500.- ----- Scholarship Walter + Eve Kent Foundation - CHF 5 000.- x2 Two scholarships awarded to particularly talented students in the fields of painting and sculpture, to support the continuation of his or her studies at ECAL. Presented by Stéphanie Moisdon, head of Master Fine Arts, on behalf of Walter + Eve Kent Foundation Clara Sipf (1AV) – CHF 5 000.- Sofia Fresey-Angelopoulou (1AV) – CHF 5 000.- ----- De Bethune Award – CHF 6 000.- A prize awarded to a graduate student in the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship for the quality of his/her work. Presented by Denis Flageollet, master watchmaker & creator of De Bethune Camille Dutoit (MAS DLC) – CHF 6 000.- ----- FLOKK Internship (6-month internship program at Flokk HQ in Oslo) Six-month internship programme at Flokk HQ in Oslo, Norway, to a Master Product Design graduate. Flokk is the market leader in the design, development and production of workplace furniture in Europe. Presented by Camille Blin, Head of Product Design Master, on behalf of FLOKK Hsinhung Chou (DP) – 6-month internship program at Flokk HQ in Oslo ----- Images Vevey x ECAL Award (monographic exhibition presented by Images Vevey in collaboration with ECAL, in Vevey) A prize offering the opportunity of a first public visibility through an exhibition to a graduate of the ECAL s Bachelor s or Master s degree in photography, while reinforcing the existing links between ECAL and Images Vevey. Presented by Alexis Georgacopoulos, on behalf of Images Vevey Augustin Lignier (MAP) – Monographic exhibition presented by Images Vevey in collaboration with ECAL, in Vevey ----- Masé Studios Sound Award (A voucher for the complete film mixing of a professional short film at Masé Studios in Geneva, value of CHF 8 000.-) A prize to a student in the Sound specialization who has distinguished himself/herself by the quality of his/her work, both on an artistic and technical level. This award underlines the virtuous bridges between the academic and professional worlds when graduating students enter the latter through the close collaboration between Masé Studios and the Film Department. Presented by Ivan Ruet, representative of Masé Studios Yatoni Roy (CI) – A voucher for the complete film mixing of a professional short film at Masé Studios, worth CHF 8 000.- ----- Casino Barrière of Montreux Foundation Grant – CHF 8 000.- A scholarship awarded to a student about to complete their graduation year. The choice was made on the basis of her/his talent and creativity. Presented by Mr Alexis Georgacopoulos, member of Casino Barrière de Montreux Foundation Carla Rossi (1MAP) – CHF 8 000.- ----- Scholarship Nestlé-ECAL – CHF 10 000.- x2 Two Nestlé scholarships of CHF 10 000. - each awarded to deserving 2nd year MADP, MAP and MATD students who have distinguished themselves by the research and quality of their diploma project, particularly -but not exclusively- in relation to current themes such as technological or social innovation, sustainability or health. Presented by René Ciocca, Head of Corporate Identity & Design, Marketing and Consumer Communication of Nestlé Raphaela Häfliger (TD) CHF 10 000.- Danpeng Cai (DP) CHF 10 000.- ----- Soma Summer Mexico 2022 Awarded to 2 Fine Arts students, selected for a 1-month artist residency in Mexico, at the Hacienda Santa María Xalostoc, near Tlaxco village in Tlaxcala state (2h30 drive from Mexico City) Presented by Stéphanie Moisdon, head of Master Fine Arts Valentina Parati (AV) Juri Bizzotto (1AV) Abréviations: AV: Arts Visuels CI: Cinéma DI: Design Industriel DG: Design Graphique DP: Design de Produit MAS DLC: Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship MID: Media & Interaction Design PH: Photographie TD: Type Design
BNP Double Clap Awards – CHF 10'000.- Avril Lehmann – BA Cinema A prize that highlights young film talent from ECAL and contributes to the production of a Bachelor's degree film. Presented by Mr. Jean Guillaume Sonnier, Head of Film Production and Distribution at ECAL on behalf of BNP Paribas. Swissnex residency, San Francisco MID Award – BA Media &…
As part of their partnership, the ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne and La Becque | Artist Residency have set up the "ECAL Residencies at La Becque". These residencies offer the opportunity to an international guest artist to carry out a personal project at La Becque while teaching at ECAL for a semester. PREVIOUS RESIDENTs previous RESIDENTs 2025-2026 RESIDENTS As part of their partne…
Language English Qualification issued Certificate of course - 1/5 Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Fees CHF 1 200.-, Alumni EXECAL CHF 1000.- Credits 2 ECTS Length 4h for 5 weeks, on Friday afternoon 1:30pm-5:30pm Useful links Admission , Contact Course format Hybrid teaching (real-time online and on site at ECAL) Registration deadline 02.01.2026 Date of course January 23, 30, February 06,…
www.hereandthere.io The global pandemic has forever changed how we work, learn and play, making virtual communication the primary form of human interaction. Here and There is a new digital pedagogy that enables students to create networked physical interfaces with limited material resources and tools, while being away and stripped from a traditional in-person studio and workshop setting. …
IMD and ECAL expand partnership with the signature of an agreement and a new executive program. Vaud neighbours will co-create design-focused executive program as they strengthen collaboration in teaching and knowledge exchange. IMD , the Institute for Management Development, and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne will develop a new design-oriented executive education program as part …
Reinvent yourself, innovate, create new models… A school of higher education in art and design such as ECAL continuously sets itself new challenges to offer its students solutions to contemporary issues while remaining forward-looking. What skills will they need for their professional future? How can we give them a competitive edge ? What projects, innovations and collaborations are likely to …
ECAL celebrates its 200th anniversary (1821–2021) In 1821, a decree of the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud formalised the opening of the Ecole cantonale de dessin, housed in Cité-Devant near the Cathedral in Lausanne. Twenty years later, the school integrated the newly built Musée Arlaud, located in the city centre and which also bears the name of the first director of both institutions, Mar…
ECAL Milano 2022: The ECAL Manual of Style,07–12.06.2022,Spazio Orso 16, Milano On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (7 to 12 June 2022), Phaidon and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne are pleased to present "The ECAL Manual of Style" – a book which proposes a comprehensive, first-time revelation of the revered Swiss design institution s fascinating teaching methodology, brought to life via a curated collection of its most innovative student projects. Founded in 1821, ECAL is widely considered to be among the world s leading art and design institutions, described byIt s Nice That as ‘the Oxbridge, the Harvard, or the MIT of the design world . In The ECAL Manual of Style", ECAL s design pedagogy is introduced via a central question posed to the internationally renowned designers, critics, and writers linked to ECAL: ‘How to best teach design today? . The answers from luminaries highlight the school s unique approach to teaching, in which individual style is not only encouraged, but rigorously pushed to develop into its most coherent professional form. Edited by acclaimed designer and writer Jonathan Olivares and ECAL Director Alexis Georgacopoulos (graphic design: Gavillet & Cie), this book surveys a selection of defining projects, simultaneously groundbreaking and functional, by students and their tutors. Published to coincide with the school s 200th anniversary, The ECAL Manual of Style reveals a creative methodology in action, readily molding to accommodate the needs of the future. Luminaries Johanna Agerman Ross – Yves Béhar – Camille Blin – Erwan Bouroullec – Ronan Bouroullec – Pierre Charpin – Kim Colin – Alexandra Cunningham Cameron – Konstantin Grcic – Marva Griffin – Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard – Mette Hay – Jaime Hayon – Anniina Koivu – Nicolas Le Moigne – Sabine Marcelis – Ravi Naidoo – Hans Ulrich Obrist – Eugenio Perazza – Alice Rawsthorn – Deyan Sudjic – Patricia Urquiola ECAL Alumni Ini Archibong – Thilo Alex Brunner – BIG-GAME – Michel Charlot – Jung-You Choi – Christophe Guberan – Moisés Hernández – Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska – Fiona Krüger – Carolien Niebling – Léa Pereyre – Julie Richoz – Adrien Rovero – Brynjar Sigurðarson – Francisco Torres – Alexis Tourron & Stefano Panterotto – Hongchao Wang – Giorgia Zanellato & Daniele Bortotto Opening hours 7 – 11 June, 11am – 8pm / 12 June, 11am – 4pm Spazio Orso 16 Via dell Orso 16 20121 Milano HD images https://press.ecal.ch
ECAL Milano 2022 – three exhibitions,07–12.06.2022,Milan Design Week On the occasion of the Milan Design, ECAL presents three exhibitions. The ECAL Manual of Style Over the past 20 years, ECAL has developed a hugely effective, highly engaging teaching method, which drives its students to develop their creativity in a professional way. To celebrate this, an exhibition and a book present the story of one of the world s most innovative schools, as told by its teachers, students and alumni, in response to the question, ‘How should design be taught today? . The book is published by Phaidon and edited by acclaimed designer Jonathan Olivares and ECAL Director Alexis Georgacopoulos. Press preview: 6 June, 4pm – 6pm Opening hours: 7 – 11 June, 11am – 8pm 12 June, 11am – 4pm Spazio Orso 16 Via dell Orso 16 20121 Milano www.phaidon.com Yamaha Sound Machines In collaboration with Japanese brand Yamaha and its Design Laboratory, Master Product Design students led by Camille Blin, Head of the programme, have created new types of music players in order to meet new requirements related to listening to music. Press preview: 6 June, 4pm – 6pm Opening hours: 7 – 11 June, 11am – 8pm 12 June, 11am – 4pm Spazio Orso 16 Via dell Orso 16 20121 Milano www.yamaha.com ECAL × BMC: Daily Mobility In the House of Switzerland, ECAL and Swiss bicycle company BMC Switzerland present the results of their exciting collaboration. During a workshop with designer Christian Spiess, Bachelor Industrial Design students were tasked to work on an urban mobility model created by BMC. Featuring either add-on equipment or completely reimagined bikes, the students projects offer a glimpse into the future of mobility on two wheels and highlight the potential on how to enhance the rider experience. Press day: 6 June, 10am – 7pm Guided press tours: 6 June, 12pm & 4:30pm Opening hours: 7 – 12 June, 10am – 8pm House of Switzerland Casa degli Artisti Corso Garibaldi 89A 20121 Milano www.swisshousemilano.it www.bmc-switzerland.com Graphic design & CGI: ECAL/Arthur Seguin Font : Walla, Baptiste Lecanu
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ECAL x MINI: Rethinking the Wheel,14–21.05.2022,Munich Creative Business Week On the occasion of the Munich Creative Business Week from 14 to 21 May 2022, ECAL and MINI present "Rethinking the Wheel" – a series of projets on steering wheels. Will we be controlling our cars through voice recognition in future? With a soft toy? How about a pizza box? The digital transformation and electrification of cars has opened up a world of possibilities at the wheel. MINI s design team and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne have collaborated closely on a sophisticated design study to develop unexpected ideas for the future of steering wheels. Under the direction of ECAL tutors Camille Blin and Christophe Guberan, Master students in Product Design have addressed the topic and come up with spectacular designs, developing, improving and ultimately achieving their vision in ongoing consultation with Christian Bauer, Head of Interior Design at MINI. The result: nine innovative and surprising designs that question existing shapes and materials – and, as such, the way in which we might interact with our cars in the future – with a lot of creativity. Presentation video with the students General video Beat Baumgartner Danpeng Cai Giacomo De Paoli Antoine Jacquat Yoosung Kim Tsubasa Koshide Carolin Schelkle Borja Suqué Manuel Steffan MINI Pavillon Lenbachplatz 7a 80333 München www.mcbw.de
Ecal×Mini Rethinking the Wheel "Rethinking the Wheel" – a series of projets on steering wheels. Will we be controlling our cars through voice recognition in future? With a soft toy? How about a pizza box? The digital transformation and electrification of cars has opened up a world of possibilities at the wheel. MINI s design team and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne have collaborated closely on a sophisticated design study to develop unexpected ideas for the future of steering wheels. Under the direction of ECAL tutors Camille Blin and Christophe Guberan, Master students in Product Design have addressed the topic and come up with spectacular designs, developing, improving and ultimately achieving their vision in ongoing consultation with Christian Bauer, Head of Interior Design at MINI. The result: nine innovative and surprising designs that question existing shapes and materials – and, as such, the way in which we might interact with our cars in the future – with a lot of creativity.
7 TYPES OF AMBIGUITY — A PARADE by Arto Lindsay,05–25.05.2022,Cinema Studio, ECAL Arto Lindsay is an American artist, guitarist, singer and composer living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A genius of noise with collaboration as his main method, he has been working since the early 2000s on the carnival parade as a gigantic musical instrument. No one can predict in advance what will come out of it, with its mixture of unity and partiality, euphoria and frustration, performance art and celebration. The installation presented at the ECAL proposes an original development of his previous street parades. With a group of musicians from the bloco Afros of Salvador de Bahia, students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program and programmer Stefan Brunner, Lindsay overturns his own conventions of the parade: inside the ECAL s Studio Cinema, the public can walk through a spiral of loudspeakers broadcasting both the realistic recordings of the percussionists and their thousand distant, confused, probable reflections. Opening 04.05.22, 6-8pm Dates 05.05-25.05.22 Free access Opening hours Tuesday to Friday, 16h-19h Or by appointment : 7types@ecal.ch Location ECAL – Cinema Studio Av. du Temple 5, 1020 Renens www.visioncreationnewsound.ch In the framework of the research project Phantom Power conducted at the ECAL and with the support of the Réseau de Compétences Design & Arts Visuels de la HES-SO. In collaboration with La Becque, Arto Lindsay will also give a solo concert on 28.04.22 at 9pm at the RKC in Vevey : www.rocking-chair.ch With the support of : Fondation Leenaards, Fondation Casino Barrière de Montreux, Fondation Walter + Eve Kent, La Becque, Rocking Chair Visuel Notter+Vigne
Collaboration with CSEM Through a unique project, students from ECAL and CSEM s engineers have effortlessly combined modern arts & crafts and nanotechnology to create a series of innovative jewelry pieces, "Structural Colors". The complex jewelry forms envisioned by the students were created with 3D printing, pushing CSEM s engineers to reinterpret their nanotechnologies in a refreshing, esthetic way. Silicon nitride was deposited in thin layers on the surface of some pieces, enhancing the designs by creating a colorful iridescent effect. On the other pieces, customized nanotechnology scatters light to create a pearlescent effect. The result of this unique collaboration is five jewellery collections, created under the direction of the Lausanne-based studio Panter&Tourron by students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship at ECAL.
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programs, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required upon registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also tested by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses a…
Languages Yes. For the Foundation Year and Bachelor programmes, non-French-speaking applicants who have not attended school in Switzerland must be able to attest that they are proficient in French at the B2 level of the European Language Portfolio. The B2 level is required on registration. Generally speaking, language proficiency is also checked by the juries during the entrance exam. Courses …
The Cinema Studio is used for technical workshops and for the production of certain films within the framework of the Cinema Department. It is fully soundproofed and equipped with walkways to allow multiple filming angles. Formations liées BA Cinema MA Cinema ECAL/HEAD
Related programmes BA Cinema MA Cinema ECAL/HEAD The Sound Studio is used for the sound post-production of films in the Film Department.
Related programme BA Fine Arts This small workshop is available to students in the Bachelor Fine Arts programme, to allow them to develop certain projects directly within the department.
The IKEA Auditorium has 352 seats, allowing the regular organisation of conferences with art and design personalities as well as film screenings.
Master Fine Arts symposium at ECAL,28.03.2022,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Master Fine Arts Symposium: How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. ECAL Master Fine Arts Symposium How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth Monday 28 March 2022 9am - 5pm IKEA Auditorium HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH This symposium is the first stage of the research project How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. It questions “youth” as a conceptual, aesthetic, and political figure born with modernity in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. At the same time, this project proposes to examine the implications of the problematic category of “youth” in contemporary art and thought. By exploring the processes in which youth is constituted through its forms of representation, this project intends to render intelligible the aesthetic and political dimensions of youth, and to grasp it as a historical allegory allowing for a reconsideration of the contemporary in the light of its most lively site. 9am Welcome coffee 9.30am Welcome, Stéphanie Moisdon Introduction, Philippe Azoury and Vincent Normand 10am Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective Ludivine Bantigny 11am Break 11.30am “Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?” Pop Music as an Art of Ages Agnès Gayraud 12.30pm Ludivine Bantigny and Agnès Gayraud in conversation 1pm Lunch break 2pm The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of “Europe s Last Youth Culture” Persis Bekkering 3pm Break 3.30pm About Bébé Colère Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel 4.30pm Conclusion Apéro For registration or information shirin.yousefi@ecal.ch Ludivine Bantigny is a historian, teacher and researcher attached to the Laboratory of History of the University of Rouen-Normandy. She works on the history of commitments, social movements, insurrections and revolutions, but has also devoted numerous books and articles to the history of youth and generations. She has published Le Plus Bel Âge ? Jeunes et jeunesse en France de l aube des « Trente Glorieuses » à la guerre d Algérie (Fayard, 2007), La France à l heure du monde (Seuil, 2017, rééd. 2019), 1968. De grands soirs en petits matins (Seuil, 2018, rééd. 2020), Révolution (Anamosa, 2019), « La plus belle avenue du monde ». Une histoire sociale et politique des Champs-Élysées (La Découverte, 2020) and La Commune au présent. Une correspondance par-delà le temps (La Découverte, 2021). Persis Bekkering is a metamorphic writer, engaging with a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines. She is interested in the emotional landscape of the contemporary, searching for new narrative forms that reflect a present permanently marked by crisis. Her recent publications include (fictocritical) essays, art criticism and fiction. Her debut novel Een heldenleven (The Life of a Hero), published in 2018, was shortlisted for the ANV Debut Prize. Her second novel Exces, shortlisted for the BNG Bank Prize for Literature, was published in 2021, part of which has been translated in English as Last Utopia by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Recent and forthcoming publications include texts for M HKA Antwerp, Girls Like Us, Extra Extra and NRC Handelsblad. With choreographer Ula Sickle she worked as dramaturg on the concert performances The Sadness (2020) and Echoic Choir (2021). She also teaches at the Creative Writing department of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Agnès Gayraud was born in Tarbes in 1979. Under the name La Féline, she is the author and composer of several pop records released since 2014 by Kwaidan Records, including the albums Adieu l enfance, Triomphe, and Vie Future, as well as other contributions under the moniker GRIVE. She published a book of aesthetic philosophy, Dialectic of Pop (Urbanomic, 2019), dealing with the expressive changes induced by the advent of recorded popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century. She is currently professor of art and theory at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Jonathan Vinel, born in Toulouse in 1988, studied editing at the Fémis. Caroline Poggi, born in 1990 in Ajaccio, studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and at the University of Corsica (CREATACC degree). They have directed several films, separately (Chiens for Caroline, Notre amour est assez puissant for Jonathan) and together. Their short film Tant qu il nous reste des fusils à pompe received the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. They then directed Notre héritage, also selected at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015, followed by their first feature film Jessica Forever in 2018. They are currently working on their second feature film entitled Eat the Night. ECAL Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33 www.ecal.ch How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth is a research project supported by ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. Concept and organization Philippe Azoury, Vincent Normand, Shirin Yousefi
HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH Symposium : HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH This symposium is the first stage of the research project How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. It questions “youth” as a conceptual, aesthetic, andpolitical figure born with modernity in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. At the same time, this project proposes to examine the implications ofthe problematic category of "youth" in contemporary art and thought. By exploring the processes in which youth is constituted through its forms of representation, thisproject intends to render intelligible the aesthetic and political dimensions of youth, and to grasp it as a historical allegory allowing for a reconsideration of thecontemporary in the light of its most lively site. What image(s) does the notion of youth carry with it? What idea does it have of itself? How can we talk about it beyond ingrained ideas and the fantasies that society projects on it (at least in Western culture), making it simultaneously a force, a market, an age, a culture, a piece of a history which which we only began writing inthe twentieth-century, and which today has reached its critical stage? In recent history, the notion of youth has so often been conflated with “bringing down the house” that we now expect everything from it: to reinvent us, to shake us up, to carry us, to succeed in what others have failed at (establishing the most open communities possible), to build bridges for the future, to be radical, to be uncompromising where anyone outside of youth has already given up, to be desirable where others are overwhelmed. But with what means? If not those that young people make themselves, for themselves, with elements that they alone will have chosen? With their culture, their places, their clandestinity. Because that which is not yet over happens in the shadows of the world. Youth is a secret. “How Soon Is Now?”, The Smiths once asked. When is it, now? 9.30am Welcome, Stéphanie Moisdon Introduction, Philippe Azoury and Vincent Normand 10am Ludivine Bantigny : Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective 11.30am Agnès Gayraud : "Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?" Pop Music as an Art of Ages 12.30pm Ludivine Bantigny and Agnès Gayraud in conversation 1pm Lunch break 2pm The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of "Europe s Last Youth Culture" Persis Bekkering 3pm Break 3.30pm About Bébé Colère Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel 4.30pm Conclusion Apéro — Ludivine Bantigny Representing Youth / Experiencing It. A Historical Perspective The representations, discourses and other obsessions about "youth" often say less about young people than about the authorities that forge them: politicians, institutions, media, artists... In themselves, these representations are interesting: they express anxieties, doubts and hopes, but also strong opinions, sometimes peremptory visions that often translate fantasies. In such a landscape, cinema in particular is an excellent medium when it projects its lights and cameras on youth. It is these ways of telling the story of youth that this presentation addresses. But it does not stop there. For beyond the representations, what remains the most fascinating are the modalities of socialization that young people know and come across, in all their diversity. In this sense, this presentation will also question the relationship to time, historicity as an awareness of taking part in history and situating oneself in it, age identities, and generational belonging. Agnès Gayraud "Will You Love Me When I m Sixty Four?" Pop Music as an Art of Ages Folklore has long been interpreted as the "childhood of art", a form of expression invented by popular classes and considered as the living vestige of humanity s childhood. From its outset, recorded folk music has been appreciated as a form of "primaverism", the conviction that things in their prime are the most valuable, that authenticity stems not only from the origin but from the beginning. A recording fixes individual voices and their organic idiosyncrasies at the moment of their expression, and in so doing, it captures the aura of a primitive past. The fixed expressivity of recorded voices represents countless individual incarnations, and this has made pop music the most powerful musical art form to bear witness to all ages of life, not just childhood or youth. Rather than associating pop music with a particular stage of life, with a phase of inexperience (innocence, naivety, regression or youth), it is tempting to question its rooting in the expression of ages in general. Contemporary musicians such as Angèle, Oklou, and Arca accurately represent post-adolescence, sexual maturity, and the pleasure of finally flirting with the pornographic category of "adult" content, all while reflecting on youthism, contemporary ageism, and sexist domination. Here, individual embodiment takes as its theme its own situated expression. In contrast to these younger artists, Bob Dylan sang later in his life,"It s not dark yet but it s getting there". This priority given to the expression of individuality at various ages (one s body, one s sexuality, one s race, which make sense only by situating a generation in terms of someone s legal and physiological age), is what binds deeply popular recorded music to what the history of western musical art has at some point thought to have overcome during the 20th century: the romantic confidence in situated individualities, in particular incarnations, in singularities. In the contemporary artistic field, reflexive forms of art only recognize their historical age. Individual age is not a key to understanding the content of their gesture, one deciphers it rather in light of their epoch. Popular music, to the contrary, presents itself as a musical art powerfully carried by the expressiveness of the ages, even if it means sometimes to render eternal a youth whose legal status as such proceeds from the whole liberal system. Persis Bekkering The Rave Continuum. Researching Plot and Politics of "Europe s Last Youth Culture" As much as any experience fails to be adequately grasped by language, the experience of the rave presents the storyteller with a specific, intriguing challenge. As the narrator in Rainald Goetz experimental novel Rave (1998) remembers: "It was the wordless time, when we were always looking around with our big eyes so strangely in every possible situation, shaking our heads, and could almost never say anything but: speechless – pf –" The rave, at its best, is a wordless suspension of time; a limit experience; an event blurring linear understandings of time and space, proposing its own logic. As music theorist Simon Reynolds once quoted the (unbelievably perfect) shouts of an MC at a hardcore party: We ve lost the plot . What does this mean if one tries to translate the rave into narrative? How to grasp its thwarted, warped, halted temporality? For her last novel Exces, part of which is published in English as the novella Last Utopia, writer Persis Bekkering has attempted to find an answer to these problems. The questions of narrative structure and temporality of the rave may look like purely formal ones, but they are closely tied to bigger, historical or even philosophical questions: how to understand the rave and the emergence of rave culture, at the end of the 1980s, in its time? Why did it emerge at that peculiar historical moment, when the end of history and telos of progress was famously declared, utopian ideologies lost their claim, and capitalism entered a new phase? And what did the rave propose to it: resistance or acceleration? Maybe both? In her presentation, Bekkering takes us through a meandering journey along her ongoing artistic and literary research, sharing images, texts, fragments and shouts in the dark, from her archive. Throughout the various parts and fragments, one can hear the constant drone of the search for the aesthetic expression of the permanent presence of crisis in our time. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel About Bébé Colère Screening of the film followed by a round table discussion. For more than ten years now, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel have been weaving together a body of work that has no equivalent within French cinema. Whether through their first feature film Jessica forever (2018), or through their numerous short and medium-length films, (Martin pleure, 2017; Notre héritage, 2015; or Tant qu il nous restera des fusils à pompe, 2014, which won the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival), they follow the destiny of their own generation (they are both less than 35 years old). This is a generation which feeds on heroism through the virtual, a generation that met porn before love and online violence before friendship, a generation for which the video game is its lost paradise. Yet they draw from it, and this is their strength, a form of romanticism, which never wants to believe in the end of emotions. Their lyricism is unprecedented because it comes after: after the images, after the clichés, after the disillusionment, after they have been told that “no, really, sorry, there is nothing left to expect from anything, everything has been played out”. In the spring of 2020, when the earth had just come to a halt due to the Covid pandemic, Jonathan and Caroline retreated to Corsica where they dreamed of an unseen body that escaped from a video game: Bébé Colère [Baby Anger]. Bébé Colère denies his parents, Bébé Colère has no friends, Bébé Colère vomits the world and feeds on emptiness. In 13 minutes, Bébé Colère is an irreducible work that paints a portrait of a 2.0 youth caught in disarray. A post-human body, which has denied its origins and only sees the future through the features of an avatar. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel will discuss the possibility of romanticism today, and the conditions that allow them to invent new characters, generating their own disordered chronology. They will also talk about their aesthetic relationship with video games: the baby in Bébé Colère is a pre-programmed asset purchased online to be animated and then integrated into the film. In close collaboration with Lucien Krampf, they are also currently developing a project conceived inside a game engine. In their work, they consider the game as a new narrative track while also using pre-existing elements. The conversation will take place in French. — Ludivine Bantigny is a historian, teacher and researcher attached to the Laboratory of History of the University of Rouen-Normandy. She works on the history of commitments, social movements, insurrections and revolutions, but has also devoted numerous books and articles to the history of youth and generations. She has published Le Plus Bel Âge ? Jeunes et jeunesse en France de l aube des « Trente Glorieuses » à la guerre d Algérie (Fayard, 2007), La France à l heure du monde (Seuil, 2017, rééd. 2019), 1968. De grands soirs en petits matins (Seuil, 2018, rééd. 2020), Révolution (Anamosa, 2019), « La plus belle avenue du monde ». Une histoire sociale et politique des Champs-Élysées (La Découverte, 2020) and La Commune au présent. Une correspondance par-delà le temps (La Découverte, 2021). Persis Bekkering is a metamorphic writer, engaging with a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines. She is interested in the emotional landscape of the contemporary, searching for new narrative forms that reflect a present permanently marked by crisis. Her recent publications include (fictocritical) essays, art criticism and fiction. Her debut novel Een heldenleven (The Life of a Hero), published in 2018, was shortlisted for the ANV Debut Prize. Her second novel Exces, shortlisted for the BNG Bank Prize for Literature, was published in 2021, part of which has been translated in English as Last Utopia by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Recent and forthcoming publications include texts for M HKA Antwerp, Girls Like Us, Extra Extra and NRC Handelsblad. With choreographer Ula Sickle she worked as dramaturg on the concert performances The Sadness (2020) and Echoic Choir (2021). She also teaches at the Creative Writing department of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Agnès Gayraud was born in Tarbes in 1979. Under the name La Féline, she is the author and composer of several pop records released since 2014 by Kwaidan Records, including the albums Adieu l enfance, Triomphe, and Vie Future, as well as other contributions under the moniker GRIVE. She published a book of aesthetic philosophy, Dialectic of Pop (Urbanomic, 2019), dealing with the expressive changes induced by the advent of recorded popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century. She is currently professor of art and theory at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Jonathan Vinel, born in Toulouse in 1988, studied editing at the Fémis. Caroline Poggi, born in 1990 in Ajaccio, studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and at the University of Corsica (CREATACC degree). They have directed several films, separately (Chiens for Caroline, Notre amour est assez puissant for Jonathan) and together. Their short film Tant qu il nous reste des fusils à pompe received the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. They then directed Notre héritage, also selected at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015, followed by their first feature film Jessica Forever in 2018. They are currently working on their second feature film entitled Eat the Night. — Concept and organization: Philippe Azoury, Vincent Normand, Shirin Yousefi For registration or further information please contact: shirin.yousefi@ecal.ch — How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth is a research project supported by ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland.
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