Biography
Born in Lausanne in 1993, Mariama Balde began her studies in International Relations before following her passion for cinema. Since 2013, she has written a hundred interviews as well as numerous film reviews for Swiss newspapers and magazines. She learned the tools of filmmaking and directed several short films at the ECAL’s Cinema section. She is currently preparing her first animated feature film.
Contents
11.07.2023
Incarnation of spectres
Interview with Clélia Zernik on ghosts in cinema
The seventh art is ‘the art of ghosts’, as Jacques Derrida once said. This is what Clélia Zernik, professor of aesthetics at the Paris Beaux-Arts, demonstrates in her brilliant essay L’attrait du…
08.12.2022
Condensation of the immaterial
Interview with filmmaker Louis Henderson
Assemble. That’s the watchword of British artist and filmmaker Louis Henderson. For the past thirteen years, Henderson has been building a 2.0 filmography, essentially using the teeming universe of expanding images and…
18.06.2021
The secrets of a film script
An interview with director Carmen Jaquier
It is rare to read excerpts from a film script that is still in post-production. Between two editing sessions, Carmen Jaquier discusses the writing of her second feature film, Les Paradis de…
21.01.2021
The rainmaker and the filmmaker
Interview with director Rokhaya Marieme Balde
In her short film À la recherche d’Aline, Rokhaya Marieme Balde focuses on her great-aunt, Aline Sitoé Diatta, who was a heroine of the anti-colonial struggle in Senegal. In addition to her…