Biography
Prof. Fred Truniger studied Film Theory and German Language and Literature at the University of Zurich and received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. Presently he is the head of the MA Film Programme at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. 

He has published in the fields of Landscape Architecture and Film and took a special interest in the intersections of the two. His engagement with the avant-garde and art film started in the early 1990ies, when he worked at the International Experimental Film- Videofestival VIPER in Lucerne and ever since has accompanied him through his professional life. Current research interests include ultrashort filmic forms and the use of moving images in social media and public space. 

Abstract
In 2005 a series of curatorial and media-historical projects started with the aim to rediscover minor and artistic practices in film in Switzerland. The thread of three projects traces and pictures the contribution of the avant-garde film to film and art history and puts forward – mainly through museum exhibitions and a forthcoming publication – a previously forgotten but rather large body of work from roughly 1950-1990 for public dialogue.