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Diploma project 2020 from Fabien Roy

Plus One

Diploma project 2020 from Victor Rhodin

Footwear – Be on the Way

Diploma project 2020 from Lorenz Noelle

Verdello

Diploma project 2020 from Samuel Lodetti

Lotte

Diploma project 2020 from Sarah Hossli

Port Toolbox

Diploma project 2020 from Wasan Choosakul

Final Jury Master Cinema 2020

The diploma Jury of the Master Cinema 2018-20: Ael Dallier Vega (editor, Paris); Jacques Kieffer (sound engineer, Zürich); Stéphane Batut (filmmaker and scriptwriter, Paris); Aline Schmid (producer, Genève)

Dialogue with Pauline

A project by Ensemble Vide

"I Dreamed of El Zahir"

Sound work recorded in Dakar, Senegal

Master cinéma - Production

On the set of "Bulle" by Anne Deluz, with the actress Claudia Cardinale ©Ghislaine Hegers

Cinema Master - major Sound

On the set of "Red Jungle" by Juan José Lozano and Zoltán Horváth ©Charlotte Muller

ECAL Cinema book 2019

An insight in the ECAL films and activities

Collaboration with Fondation Opale

7 short films made by the Master students

Usefulless

A group exhibition bringing together students from the Fine Arts Master of ECAL and artists Morag Keil, Ghislaine Leung, Martin Scorsese and Emily Wardill. A proposal by Clément Delépine and Mélanie Matranga.

diploma 2019

Diploma 2019

Grand Voyage: Dakar

The students of the Master Cinema in Senegal during the Grand Voyage

Interview with Lionel Baier

Head of the ECAL Cinema Department

IMD Business School Lausanne

UEFA Innovation Challenge 2019

Symposium KILL Yr IDOLS

Philippe Azoury giving his lecture at the KILL Yr IDOLS Symposium, March 2019

ECAL MADE

The first year students of the Master Product Design faced the stakes of the job of designer, from idea to manufacture and sale. The products created, everyday objects made in Switzerland with the help of local craftsmen, are the happy result.

The invisible sanctuary

In Kyoto, the former imperial capital of Japan, Masayo Fujio and Nobuko Takahashi narrates the painful account of their life. Through their stories, mingled with that of the district, Suujin, the past of an invisible Japanese community that is still discriminated against today gradually surfaces again.

Sister Jarariju

In the middle of an austere landscape contaminated by a coal mine in northern Colombia, Viviana and Yandris, two teenage sisters of the Wayuu ethnic group, discover their traditions through ancestral rituals. At the death of their father and, in an act of audacity and courage, the sisters Jarariju leave their country.

ECAL Digital Market

ECAL Master Product Design students present a range of innovative everyday life objects, produced through a print farm within the exhibition and sold directly on site

Zzz...

Diploma

All the Loose Ends would Disappear Again in the Shape of your Face

Diploma

Angelo

Diplôme

Exposition 'Ending Explained'

Exhibition organized by Will Benedict in collaboration with DOC! Espace de production artistique.

USM Foundation x ECAL

In partnership with the USM Foundation, students of the ECAL MA Product Design MA present an exhibition on the theme of "The Lamp of Tomorrow".

Master Cinema at the Clermont Film Festival

Promotion du Master cinéma au Festival du court métrage de Clermont Ferrand

Table ronde lors des Journées cinématographiques de Soleure, 27 janvier 2018

Les jeunes scénaristes suisses sont-ils assez formés?

Symposium with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Workshop

RETROSUPERFUTURE

Collaboration with RETROSUPERFUTURE

Collaboration with Vacheron Constantin

The Art of Celestial Mechanics

Maiensäss

Workshop from 1st year students of the Master in Product Design.

Mumbai Grand Voyage workshop

3 weeks in Mumbai for a direction workshop lead by Anurag Kashyap

Los Angeles 2016

Summer University 2016, Los Angeles Stephanie Moisdon, Bei Schlingelhoff, Will Benedict, Emanuele Marcuccio.

Albin

I lost my father at the age of two - too young to have kept any memories. For many years this loss haunted only my sub consciousness. Thirty years after his death, his grave was destroyed. I suddenly realize that I had never mourned my father and that I had to find out who he really was. Starting from the idea that memory is something you can question, work and modify, I decide to dive into Albin's universe to create my own memories.

Lost Exile

Emir, a family man, works for the local mafia as people smuggler between Serbia and Hungary. Hana, a young woman from Kosovo wants to flee her country and meets Emir to drive her. On the way, Emir's unscrupulous colleagues order him to stop at a motel next to the border. They see in Hana the opportunity to gain money by delivering her to a prostitution ring. That night, Emir is faced with a moral dilemma and his own humanity as Hana will test her courage to change her life and make it to Europe.

Ma Yan Chan - Waves of Transition

Since generations, the dockers and their families live and work at the Ayeyarwady riverbank in Mandalay, the ancient royal capital of Myanmar. In a time of great transition, their lifestyle is subdued to lasting transformations. Against their will, the authorities try to dislocate them into newly built concrete buildings.

Collaboration with Reuge

A new interpretation of the music box

Exhibition wall clocks Vacheron Constantin

Wall clocks developed in 2013 and presented at the main entrance of the Vacheron Constantin manufacture.

1st semester evaluations

Professors: Valentin Carron, Fabian Marti, Bea Schlingelhoff

Conference Dominique Gonzales Foerster

Conference and studio visits with Dominique Gonzales Foerster

Collaboration with Mauviel

Visit of the Mauviel manufacture in the Normandy in order to initiate the collaboration with this family owned brand specialized in high quality cookware.

Visit Vacheron Constantin

A five-days programme conceived of workshop introductions, factory visits and brainstorming at Vacheron Constantin in order to present the brand's key values to the students.

ImaginaSon

The ImaginaSon show is the result of a collaboration between the Swiss Cinémathèque, the students in Composing of the University of Music Lausanne (HEMU) and the students in Editing of the Ecal/Head Master in Film Studies.

BAD WEATHER Workshop with Will Benedict

Collective publication with the artist Will Benedict. Workshop part of the HES-SO network.

Scott

Urban commuter bicycle concepts developed in cooperation with swiss bike manufacturer SCOTT

Exhibition Life is a Bed of Roses (un roman)

An experimental collaboration between Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris) and ECAL's Fine Arts Master.

Collaboration with Christofle

For this fifth collaboration between ECAL and the Maison Christofle, the students of the MAS DLC have taken the challenge to dive straight into the heart of silversmithing history by creating a set of cutlery.

Collaboration with Vacheron Constantin

A collaboration with Vacheron Constantin on the theme of seasons and realized with 12 Swiss craftsmen.

Heart of Glass

HES-SO design research project in the framework of the Master in Product Design of ECAL.

Paris and Centre Pompidou-Metz

Visiting exhibitions among which "1984-1999. The Decade," in the company of its curator and Head of ECAL's Fine Arts Master Stéphanie Moisdon, and with the artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.

Ontological Adventures Symposium

Exploring contemporary philosophy and anthropology with Tristan Garcia, Martin Fortier, and Vincent Normand.

Exhibition and book Vertiginous Parallels

Research project by ECAL's Fine Arts Master, on the links between the works of Charles Blanc-Gatti and the artist's experience of alpine space.

Workshop Great Trip in Sarajevo

Every 2 years, students are invited to take part in an ambitious work shop named « Great Trip » where they discover a land and a director. In 2014 they travelled to Sarajevo, to meet the Film Factory Students and it’s boss, the Hungarian director Bela Tarr.

Honey is sweeter than blood

18 year old Lucia is on edge. Her grandfather is seriously ill and she refuses to accept the fact that he’s dying. In an unsuccessful attempt to take her mind off it, she seeks comfort in the arms of Rabah, a local guy, with whom she has a tumultuous fling.

Messe

This photography book explores five Swiss fairs.

The everyday

During this Master, I have worked on two photography projects where I search for the illusion in everyday life versus a series of sets and objects I build in the studio.

Pícara

Pícara is a bookish text typeface, a tool for graphic designers, which draws its roots from 18th century Spanish type design.

Bootycelli

Bootycelli is a one shot magazine focused on the body and beauty.

Alberto&Claudia

Alberto&Claudia is a type design project specifically aimed at the contemporary editorial scene.

The Derby Club

My project is a small family of typefaces which tries to embed into a type design project the contrasted and idiosyncratic sides of football and its supporters, oscillating between two sides of the same coin.

Mamertus

Mamertus is a typeface family inspired by the work in the kitchen garden. It is dedicated to dirty hands, sharp tools and the priceless independence of growing one’s own food.

Screen Magazine

Julia Andréone diploma project

Diploma 2014

Diploma projects of 2014.

Collaboration with Vacheron Constantin

Workshop with Nicolas Le Moigne around the interpretation of time.

Collaboration with Hermès

Workshop to create vitrines around the theme of "Metamorphosis".

Still Life | Still Alive

Development of pedestals to highlight simple every day objects in a surprising way. Workshop led by Nathalie Du Pasquier.

SIGG Lunch Boxes

Development of lunch boxes, food containers and accessories, in collaboration with the Swiss manufacturing company SIGG.

First semester 2013-2014 works

Selected Fine Arts Master students' works presented in January 2014.

Terroir

Work from 1st year students of the Master in Product Design in collaboration with local producers and craftsmen.

Practicalities (La vie matérielle)

Exhibition by ECAL's Fine Arts Master at Basis, Frankfurt

Diploma 2013

Diploma projects of 2013.

Transvercity/跨城市 is a typographic project about the cultural desire between the East and West.

This work is a collaboration between a fashion designer and two graphic designers.

In 2010 I met my father for the first time at the age of 23. Besides the difficulty of imagining him as a father figure - since no images of him had accompanied me so far- a cultural and identity barrier was added, due to his Spanish roots.

Firefighter, astronaut, ballerina... What happened to your childhood dream?

My diploma project is a report on Dubaï inhabitants, examined through the lense of cars.

Diplomas

Works presented in June 2013 for ECAL's diploma of Fine Arts Master.

Collaboration with Hermès

Workshop to create vitrines with the theme "Chic le sport".

Festival Indilisboa

Le Festival Indilisboa présente un programme spécial consacré au Master Cinéma ECAL/HEAD.

Collection d'art de la Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition “Contemporary… Is It? The BCV Art Collection”. It offers a look at the BCV art collection, a major player in the art scene in the canton of Vaud.

Hot Tools

Research on glass following a workshop led by designer Ronan Bouroullec and glassblower Matteo Gonet.

Diploma 2012

Diploma projects of 2012.

Offices Unlimited

Research on office furniture in collaboration with furniture manufacturer Vitra (CH).

Atrocity Exhibition Archive Paradoxe

Circuit, Lausanne, 29.09- 3.11.2012 "Atrocity Exhibition Archive Paradoxe" Une proposition des étudiants du Master Arts visuels de l’ECAL dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche dirigé par Julien Fronsacq, professeur à l’ECAL.

Des yeux partout

Solitaire et un brin sauvage, Clarisse ne supporte pas d’être constamment observée par la vidéosurveillance.

27.06.2012, Conversation entre Michel Houellebecq et Stéphanie Moisdon

A l’occasion de l’exposition Le Monde comme volonté et comme papier peint au Consortium de Dijon, Michel Houellebecq, en conversation avec Stéphanie Moisdon, aborde les questions des relations entre la représentation du travail et son esthétique, tant dans son roman La Carte et le territoire que dans l’exposition.

Terrazzo Project

The Terrazzo Project is a furniture design company started by two ex-ECAL students, working with a particular stone material; terrazzo (a mixture of cement and marble).

Spheres

The first issue of the magazine Spheres is a creative collaboration between Melanie Bonajo and Philippe Karrer. Each issue is dedicated to the work of a young artist.

Flight Launching Monuments

Complex and monumental, ski jumps are constructions that have a strong impact on their landscape and their environment.

La Vallée

My project has for theme the Vallée de Joux and its relationship with the watch industry. I have photographed the various aspects of the place, showing them from an unusual perspective.

Adventice 01 — An Issue About Architecture and Nature

Adventice is an editorial project which concentrates on the confrontation of different topics, highlighting the tension between conflicting subjects.

5.03.2012, Conférence et studio visit de Nathaniel Mellors, artiste

5.03.2012, Conférence et studio visit de Nathaniel Mellors, artiste

Collaboration with Zai

ECAL presents objects produced in collaboration with ski manufacturer Zai, based in Disentis (GR). These projects were developed during a workshop with british designer Alexander Taylor.

AXOR-Bouroullec

Bathroom accessories in collaboration with AXOR-Hansgrohe (DE).

Diploma 2011

Diploma projects of 2011.

Collaboration with Baccarat

For this first collaboration with Baccarat the students worked on new interpretations of the iconic Harcourt glass, which celebrates its 170 years in 2011.

Gaijin

I usually find it hard to speak about myself. I always stumble in the paradoxes of “who am I?”. In terms of factual information, I surely appear to be the most well informed person about my own self.

Four Corners

I decided to create an “architectural” publication. My rational is to reclaim the word architecture from within the realms of professional discourse, and examine its juxtaposition between this and everyday life.

TM SGM RSI 1965-1985

The Typographische Monatsblätter has enjoyed a long life, or rather many different lives. Established more than 70 years ago, the magazine has witnessed very important moments in the history of typography and graphic design.

Les sentiments positivés

Out work for the master is a collection of many independent series of images. Through selected themes we have aimed to create a genre of photography based upon a variety of shapes, colours and material.

Verities 01

Verities is an independent biannual publication of thought, observation and reflection, giving equal focus to visual arts and literature. Verities explores new ways of seeing the most ordinary and overlooked situations.

Torch Light

Semester project with Adrien Rovero.

Airplay

Toys especially design for kids aboard airplanes, in collaboration with Swiss airline (CH).

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… The haunting presence of absence colours the portrait of this mother of a family, in her strength and fragility.

Collaboration with Hublot

Collaboration with watch brand Hublot with the aim of developing a series of kitchen knives.

Tris Vonna-Michell

21.01.2010, Séminaire de Tris Vonna-Michell, artiste

Cotonov Vanished

Cotonov Vanished revient sur la carrière fulgurante d’un jeune et brillant interprète russe embarqué dans la guerre froide qui, un jour, disparut mystérieusement.

Diploma Projects

Selection of personal projects realized by the students during the 2nd semester.

Vandalen

Sebastian and Johannes are graffiti artists and work together. But there is something else that connects them: they are in love. Nobody knows, though. This is the story of their daily struggle in a subculture that is all but gay-friendly.