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
2001
Architectour de Suisse (1/26 TV collection) 15min, doc Beta SP prod Hochparterre/SSR-SRG
2000
1997
1995
ANNE BLANCHET, VHS (for the artist Anne Blanchet). 6min AleProd.
1991
1989
+ 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
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