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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It took Claude Barras ten years to complete his first full-length animation film My Life as a Courgette (2016), which tells the story of a young, round-faced, big-eyed orphan boy. The film…
Every month, Ambroise Tièche excavates a notable lecture that was given at the HEAD – Geneva in a more or less distant past. Most of the video recordings he uses have never…
Jean-Pierre Greff, the HEAD – Geneva’s director, returns to the founding of the school’s interdisciplinary project, and of the AC/DC (contemporary art/contemporary design) symposium, a cornerstone event for the school in 2007.…
The architect and design theorist Mark Wigley has engaged in a re-evaluation of the notion of design, so as to uncover some of the features that led mankind to design its own…
Our age has been described as the age of winter – an ice age for possibilities. Faced with this ‘crisis of the future’ that the early 21st century is undergoing, Les Impatients…