Tabarak Allah Abbas graduated from the HEAD – Genève Film Department in 2023 with the short film Mawtini, which has just won over its first viewers. This animated gem and the first Swiss shōnen has won several awards, including the…

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 fantôme (2019), co-written with Erik Zernik.…

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 sounds from the Internet, better…

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 Diane, which tells the story of Diane, a thirty-year…

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 political commitment, Sitoé Diatta was also reputed…