about

Film director

Alessandra Gavin-Müller

Director and author, trained at the London International Film School after studies in Art History at the University of Geneva. Active in TV, film, digital and installations. Recent productions are the fiction BarbaraAdesso ( 2019), the short film Collezione Lockdown By Swiss Filmmakers (2020), idocs Tv Tu non mi lascerai mai sola ( 2022) Nel nome di Egidio (2022). She is currently a member of the SSA Board of Directors and the TicinoFilmCommission.

FILMS

In progress

IL LEGAME ( TIES) fict.90min, AMKA Films

AMBRÌ, transmedia

MatthiasBerg, fict.( teaser in progress for a feature film)

2020

LUTTO SOSPESO IN TEMPI INCERTI, short, 7’32”, Collection Lockdown by Swissfilm makers, Cinedokké prod. and SSR-SRG (LocarnoFilmFestival 2020,soirée de clôture)

2019

BARBARA ADESSO, fiction, 80min, AMKA Films and RSI-SSR (Best Feature Award VailFilmFestival, USA, SolothurnerFilmtage, Other Movie, Hollywood Women Film Festival USA e.a.)

Desmond resta qui , 52min, doc-tv, Stories, RSI-SSR

2017

Diario di un distacco, 50min, doc-tv, Stories, RSI-SSR

2008

Villa dei Cedri: una storia sentimentale (docu-fiction) 30min, prod. Museum Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona

2005

Dónde está Sara Gomez? BetaD, 76min doc 2005, prod AMKA Films
(Festival Visions du Réel-Nyon, Festival International de La Habana/ mention spéciale, prix S.Gomez, VisionsDuRéel, Nyon, a.o. )

All Around All (the background) multimedia dvd/ perceptive hypothesis (20min) for The cathalogue Armleder/Buren/ Barry/ Gillick. BSI Art Collection

2003

Coppie: 3 Storie d’amore
BetaD, 30min, ( trilogy 1/3) doc, AMKA Films

2001

Architectour de Suisse (1/26 TV collection) 15min, doc Beta SP prod Hochparterre/SSR-SRG

2000

Lausanne : Geographie Sentimentale, BetaSP, 26min doc. TSI/RTBF/Arte “Alice

1997

Seules les tribus survivront
super8> 16mm docu-fiction, 30min, AleProd.

1995

ANNE BLANCHET, VHS (for the artist Anne Blanchet). 6min AleProd.

1991

JAMAICA STREET, 16mm, fict, 30min/ WATCHING (OUT) 16mm, fict, 2min LIFS

1989

LES TOURS DU MONDE (for the artist Fabiana de Barrios) VHS 1989 AleProd

+ more than twenty reportages and documentaries for RSI -SSR swiss public channel since

   1996, here a selection :

SCRIPTS

2020/2021

Il legame (Ties), fiction, 90min, Script ,co-writer Dario D’Amato (BAK/Private Foundation/ FilmPlus) Amka Films

MatthiasBerg,
fiction 80min (SSA grant/ Private Foundation) Cinedokké prod.

2019

BarbaraAdesso, fiction, 80min ( prima gennaio 2019/ uscita cinema aprile 2019) Amka Films

L’Explicateur de rêves, 80min (SSA grant / Fondation Wilsdorf support) in pre-prod

2018/2021

Il Legame, fiction, 90min, Treatment MIGROS grant (mentoring Julie Gilbert) and Fondo Scrittura Canton Ticino

Sceneggiatura (Fondazione Wilsdorf /UFC sostegno sceneggiatura)

2013

AMBRÌ, transmedia projects, (with C.Bubola) after a work-shop in the margins of the Locarno Festival, invited as a case study to Cinémas Tous Ecrans, Geneva.

OTHER PROJECTS

2021

SciaredoTalks2, “GTK: The house like a dress” talks by Anna Lisa Galizia and Michael Gnehm + Publication of the Proceedings Approdo/Deriva

2019

SciaredoTalks1, “GeorgetteTentoriKlein, Approdo o Deriva “speeches by L.Bertola/ S.Sain/ Barbara Paltenghi Malacrida (org. avec arch.Jachen Könz)

1998

Garbanof Roman-Photo pour CH, revue culturelle suisse, Genève.

1994

Installation REVOLUTION/EVOLUTION, Usine, Genève (avec Emilia Colombi et Francesca Reyes Cortorreál)

IN VITRO-IN VIVO Installation sonore. Expo collective. Genève (curator Gianni Motti)

1992

Collaboration in the interactive TV project VAN GOGH-TV/PIAZZA VIRTUALE in connection with DOCUMENTA IX in Kassel(D)

DIVERS

Since 2021

Member of the Board of Directors of the Ticino Film Commission
Member of the Board of Directors SociétéSuisseAuteurs , Audiovisual Commission    

Since 2017

member of the Board of the Sciaredo Foundation
member of the advisory board of the AARDT (Archivi riuniti donne ticinesi)

From 2015 to 2019

member of the Commission Fédérale du Cinema (EFiK)

From 2008 to 2016

member of the Committee of the ARF/FDS, swiss directors and screenwriters guild

TEACHER/SPEAKER

From 2008 to 2014

collaborates with SUPSI DACD, Visual Communication, responsible for short film atelier, thesis.

2015

speaker with Alexandre Brachet at FOCAL’s seminar Internet storytelling in documentary  at  Festival VisionsDu Réel, Nyon CH

2014

speaker at FOCAL’s seminar  TV: a creative lab for swiss documentaries

2005

speaker at the talk  Vertical Image ( CinémaTous Ecrans, Geneva, CH)

Further

Several FOCAL seminars including

2022

Virtual Production, GIFF Geneva

2019

Séries TV: tout est dans la bible ( de réalisation!) (GE)

2018

VFX für Regie und Producion (ZH)

Perspectives de la production fiction SSR-Prod.Indépendante (SO)

Marc Herpoux: Les spécificités de la dramaturgie des séries tv

(FonctionCinéma GE)

2017

Being There: von Direct Cinema zu Virtual Reality (ZHdK)

2015

Nouvelles Formes de narration dans le documentaire (Berne)

2014

Training for Directors (Meisner method) avec Giles Foreman (London)

LANGUAGES

Italian, français, english, deutsch, español

Biography

1966

Born in Zürich, raised in Lugano, married, one daugther (2007)

1986-1989

Art history, english & american Literature and Bosar: Arts at the University of Geneva

1992

Graduates from LIFS (London International Film School). Creates sound installations and photographic works and takes part in an interactive-tv project linked to the Documenta Ix Art Fair in Kassel (Germany), called University-TV / Piazza Virtuale

1991-1994

Works as an assistant to british director Peter Greenaway on the installations project STAIRS 1 GENEVA, as well as the homonymous film (100min), collaborates on 8 ½ WOMEN

Since 1994

Directs her own films (documentaries, tv-docs, fictions, art-films, transmedia projects)

Since 1996

Collaborates with RSI (Swiss Public TV, SSR-SRG group)

2001-2009

Collaborates with Blackmovie Film Festival (Cinéma Des Autres Mondes) in Geneva, festival that shows african, latin american and asian films

2008-2009

Direct workshops at Visual Communication Departement (SUPSI, Southern Switzerland)

since- 2015

Member of the Federal Commission for Cinema OFC, Switzerland

since- 2017

Consultant for the Swissitalian Historical Women Archives AARDT

Committee member of Fondazione Sciaredo, Casa Sciaredo Barbengo