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La Chambre à 1,2,3 Dimension(s) Montre à 1,2,3 Tour(s) The DSK case seen as a result of a chain of consecutive actions. All actions are initiated by decisions. This book contains the same decisions and allows the reader to make his own path and explore alternative scenarios and consequences.
Simona Canonica – Con la licencia de Dios In an isolated village in the Mexican desert, Griselda lives with the wind, silence and suspended time. She looks at life with humanity and pragmatism. Her husband emigrated to the United States, and like other women in the village, the children and the old, Griselda lives in a state of waiting… Documentary Synopsis In an isolated village in the Mexican desert, Griselda lives with the wind, silence and suspended time. She looks at life with humanity and pragmatism. Her husband emigrated to the United States, and like other women in the village, the children and the old, Griselda lives in a state of waiting… The haunting presence of absence colours the portrait of this mother of a family, in her strength and fragility. Festivals and Awards Miglior Cortometraggio Ticinese, Film Festival Centovalli, 2012 Prix Premiers Pas, Festival Visons du Réel, 2011 Best International Short Film Award Lisboa, doclisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema Documental, 2011 2012 Intragna, Film Festival Centovalli, Competition 2011 Nyon, Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon Lisboa, doclisboa Festival Lyon, Doc en Courts Aosta, FrontDoc Rencontres documentaires de la vallée d Aoste Genève, Festival Filmar en América latina Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage Festival international du Cinéma des peuples Ânûû-rû âboro Festival de Cine Documental EXTREMA doc
Louise Carrin – Tape Amanda, tape ! Amanda trains daily in a boxing club. Through these moments of break and surpassing herself, she confronts this male universe and discovers a world that escapes her. Synopsis Amanda s entraîne quotidiennement dans un club de boxe. A travers ces moments de pause et de surpassement, elle se confronte à cet univers masculin et découvre un monde qui lui échappe. La réalisatrice, Louise Carrin a suivi les beaux-arts de Lyon où elle a réalisé un travail photographique et video documentaire dans des dispositifs légers. Au cours de son master à l Ecal et à la HEAD, elle a également tourné un court métrage documentaire intitué « Juliette », portrait d une enfant sourde partageant le quotidien d une classe élémentaire d enfants entendants. Festivals and Prizes 2010 Winterthur, Kurzfilmtage
Guillaume Chuard – Zansio “ The Zansio project is principally an ethnographic and ethnologic study. By showing the culture, the ritual and the power of a generic company, I aim to underline its primitivism and tribalism. My work is presented in tow parts: a trade show (performance) symbolizing the front stage and a corporate behavior guideline (book) representing the back stage of this society… ” Guillaume Chuard
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.
Cotonov Vanished A way of approaching the exercise of portrait, Cotonov Vanished returns to the dazzling career of a young and brilliant Russian interpreter embarked in the Cold War who, one day, mysteriously disappeared... Documentary Synopsis A way of approaching the exercise of portraiture, Cotonov Vanished returns to the dazzling career of a young and brilliant Russian interpreter embarked in the Cold War who, one day, mysteriously disappeared. To tell his story, one of his former teachers and colleagues, now retired, lends himself to the game of interview. With, in counter-field, a young woman who translates his words, a posteriori and in a booth. Starting from these visible devices, Andreas Fontana prefers the path of evocation and mise en abyme to the path of investigation. Here, no biographical retracement, but some facts and intuitions transmitted by the old man to which archives respond. Images through which a world where the USA and the USSR confront each other and the silhouette, absent or out of frame, of Cotonov, an anonymous young man with a crucial role to play: to ensure communication between the enemy heads of state. Comment After the Loterie Romande Prize "First steps" at the Festival Visions du Réel - Nyon and the Best Screenplay Prize at the 10th Festival du Film Court Francophone de Vaulx-en-Velin, Cotonov Vanished continues its brilliant international career with a third award, the Best Short Film Prize, given by one of the most prestigious festivals in Italy, the Festival dei Popoli. Andreas Fontana s short film was praised by the jury with this comment: "If someone living on Mars watched this short film he would understand the Earth much better." Festivals and awards Prix First steps, Festival Visions du Réel Prix du Meilleur court métrage, Festival dei Popoli, Florence Prix du Meilleur scénario, Festival du Film Court Francophone, Vaux-en-Velin 2011 Paris, Festival DocFrance Bruxelles, Festival Filmer à tout prix 2010 Buenos Aires, Festival Doc Buenos Aires Ekateringburg, Festival du Film "Russia" Paris, Festival Int. du Documentaire Étudiant de St-Ouen Barcelone, Festival L Alternativa Florence, Festival dei Popoli Lyon, Festival Doc en Courts Beyrut, Festival Int. du court-métrage des écoles de cinéma 2009 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel Winterthur, Internationalen Kurzfilmtagen Vaux En Velin, Festival du Film Court Francophone de Vaulx en Velin Marseille, Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille Marseille, Festival Paroles et Musique Lussas, Etats Généraux du Documentaire
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
DeMo The exhibition design is a creative process that consists in moving from the idea of an exhibition to its display and communication. As a multidisciplinary and collective activity, it brings together those responsible for determining the content of an exhibition museum management, curators, exhibition curators and those involved its practical realization scenographers or exhibition designers. The ECAL and the HEAD Geneva offer trainings in different branches involved in exhibition design: visual communication, interior architecture and industrial and product design. Since September 2006, they are combining their efforts to carry out applied research in exhibition design following two complementary lines of research: • Experimentation : by setting up research workshops with the aim of testing concrete and innovative solutions to questions raised within contemporary exhibition design. Three workshops took place: – in December 2006 on the topic of collections (private, public) with Martino Gamper and Benjamin Reichen > images 1-4 – in March 2007 with Alexandra Gübeli and Claudia Wildermuth on the topic of setting texts in space > images 5-9 - in November 2007 with Philippe Délis (curator), Sean Murphy and Brian Studak on the topic of visual communication in exhibition space > images 9-12 • The state of the art : by gathering and diffusing original knowledge, theoretical and practical, on the contributions of design in contemporary museum practice. Interviews with : Chantal PROD HOM, directrice du mudac, Lausanne ; Stéphane JAQUENOUD, designer muséographe, Jaquenoudesign, Penthalaz (dead in november 2007) ; Alexandra GÜBELI, architecte et scénographe, GXM architectes, Zurich ; Philippe MATHEZ, conservateur au Musée d ethnographie, Genève ; Patrick REYMOND, architecte designer muséographe, Atelier Oï, La Neuveville ; Philippe DÉLIS, architecte designer scénographe, intégral phillipe délis, Paris et Rabat ; Paul NEALE, GTF (Graphic Thought Facility), Londres Martin R. SCHÄRER, directeur du Musée de l alimentation à Vevey, vice-président du Conseil international des musées (ICOM). Document to upload (in French) design-museographie.pdfMain applicant sECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Jean-François Blanc (project leader)Research teamJulien Ayer Luc Bergeron Nicole UdryPeriodseptember 2006 – december 2008Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)
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
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.
Deputy Research & Development
Dr Jonas Berthod is a researcher, lecturer and deputy to the Research and Development sector at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (HES-SO), where he has been teaching since 2013. Based in London, he also serves as a lecturer at Kingston School of Art and co-organises the yearly exhibition “Behind the Books”. He previously worked as a graphic designer in London and Switzerland.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in August 2022 - BA Industrial Deisgn graduate 2018
After graduating with a BA in Visual Arts from HEAD-Geneva, Marie Cornil completed a bachelor's degree in Industrial Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design in Lausanne. After her graduation in 2018, she exhibited her work at Villa Noailles as part of the Festival International Design Parade. She then joined, for two years, the studio Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec in Paris. She now works in collaboration with Alexandre Willaume. Together with French artisans and manufacturers, they develop a research project on imagining elements in which to live and interact, seeking to cultivate the multiplicity of their imbrications.
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Born in Finland in 1991, is a writer and art critic based in Paris. Her writings have appeared in numerous prestigious publications such as Art Forum, Los Angeles Review of Books, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, and C Magazine. Her essays on theoretical criticism, literature and visual culture have also appeared in the catalogs and books of Inventory Press, American Art Catalogues, and Semiotext(e). Tarasoff's area of research focuses on the cultural milieu of Los Angeles in the 1980s, and was presented at the Hammer Museum Biennial in 2020, a version; a book entitled “Fantasyworld” containing his writings is currently in development. Tarasoff is also the editor of poet Bob Flanagan's first anthology “Fun To Be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan”, published by Kristina Kite Gallery and Pep Talk.
Claire FitzGerald is an Anglo-Swiss art historian and curator. Her PhD thesis (University of Warwick, 2012-16) addressed the reinsertion, within art history, of artistic practices by women artists of the Birmingham School of Arts & Crafts. Since entering the museum field in 2016, she has notably worked as a curator for the Government Art Collection (GAC) in London (2018-21). In 2023, she joined the jury for the City of Geneva’s Berthoud, Lissingol-Chevalier and Galland bursaries. She was nominated head curator of the Ariana Museum, Geneva, in March 2024.
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.