30.09.2021
Film montage and its effects
Montage is one of the privileged instruments of cinema for directing the attention and emotions of the spectators. Alfred Hitchcock, who defined himself as a director of spectators before being a director…
Category : Cinema
30.09.2021
ISSUE #9 – Editing Arts International Symposium
Video footage of the conferences
"Editing Arts! Montage en mouvement" looked at the question of montage in contemporary art and design practices and, conversely, the influence of these practices on cinema. This feature gathers the entire conference…
30.09.2021
Sound, narrative, performative and spatial sequences
These lectures highlight the physical and material dimension of montage in various contexts outside cinema. Through musical composition, theatre, architecture or literary creation, montage can be a technique as much as a…
30.09.2021
Politics and aesthetics of film montage
From cinema to installation
Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the…
30.09.2021
Juxtapositions and hyperlinks
Montage from comics to digital cultures
This series of lectures approaches the notion of montage in arts and activities close to cinema such as new media, video games and comics. Freeing himself from cinemacentrism, Frederik Peeters defends the…
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…
Cinema, BA in Cinema, Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Space design, BA in Interior design, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, BA in Product Design/Jewellery and Accessory, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication
05.03.2021
ISSUE #6 – Talking Words
Creative writing practices at HEAD – Genève
The HEAD offers various workshops devoted to writing in art and design, and this feature looks at writing practices at the school through student productions and interviews with two specialists: Carla Demierre…
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…
22.04.2020
Filming the intimate and the political
An interview with Petra Costa by Delphine Jeanneret
The deputy dean of the Cinema Department Delphine Jeanneret conducted an interview with the Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa, invited at Visions du Réel Festival taking place online from April 17th – May…
12.03.2020
Head to head IV – Marie Losier
Video interview by Lucien Monot and text by Julie Enckell Julliard
This portrait in two parts of Marie Losier, professor at the HEAD-Genève’s Cinema Department, addresses two of her complementary practises. In a video interview with her former student Lucien Monot, Losier talks…