Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne – an introduction
The festival regularly chooses one of the many film schools in the world for a presentation in Rotterdam. This time we are proud to present a selection from the Swiss film school éca l, in other words the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, from the year 2003, augmented with two older titles. The film department of the school, led by Lionel Baier, trains industrial designers with the graduation subject of cinema. After the foundation course, the three year film training guides the students in directing short films fiction and documentary, but also music videos, commercials and industrial films. Firstly the students are helped to make short ‘vignettes’ one minute long and then they are assisted by renowned film makers such as Jacob Berger, Ursula Meier, Ulrich Fischer, Noémie Lvovsky, Abbas Kiarostami and Michael Dudok de Wit. The selection we made is striking for its stylistic and thematic diversity, lucid yet occasionally wayward points of departure and a meticulous finish.
In this combined programme
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“In situ”
One of the more experimental films in the Lausanne school film programme, in which image, sound, music, ordinary observations and staged situations come together in… -
Octopus Teem Scenery
A nice series of mini sketches about UFOs, little running men, dogs and suchlike. A sketched, original animation film. -
La Courtisane
An absurd vignette about a man on a chair who plays a rotating viol and about moto-crossers. -
Murphy
A man thinks that Murphy’s Law very specifically applies to himself. When he wants to turn the tide, he seems to be more of a… -
Sophie Calle Près Texte
A young man becomes fascinated and excited by the idea of making a film about the Paris author Sophie Calle, but she refuses to cooperate… -
Petit(s) Cadavre(s) Personnel(s)
A sober film focusing on the following questions: how do I get rid of a small corpse? How can I dragg this cardboard box around… -
Standby (Me)
He has disappeared, she thinks of him. That is the synopsis of something that looks very much like an autobiographical essay on DV. -
Ne 10
In school surroundings, we see a music teacher teaching new wave airs, a gym teacher who collapses in front of his colleagues, a couple of… -
Trivial Killer
An intriguing sketch about an interview that a psychologist has with a man who has committed a murder. Who is the boss around here? What… -
La Ligne
The maker does his very best to stay within the lines and the viewer, as a result, does too…