Award-winning cinematographer, director, author and educator with over 30 years of experience in cinema, immersive media, digital arts and pedagogical innovation.
Currently Director of Pedagogical Engineering and Innovation (AI & Creative Industries) at Geneva School of Digital Arts (GSDA), where I design and lead Bachelor and Master programs in digital arts.
My academic approach articulates critical thinking, technological monitoring, connection to creative industries and attention to student experience.
Winner of the 🏆 Kodak Award for Best Cinematography (Locarno 2005), I am also a children's author (80,000 copies sold).
Member of:
Creation and direction of Bachelor and Master programs in digital arts. Programs validated by Middlesex University (UK).
Composition & lighting courses for first-year students (100+ students/year). 10 thematic workshops for second-year students: Faces, Packshots, Black & White, Mobile lighting, Shooting for style or realism, On-location vs. studio lighting.
Intensive workshops on lighting and framing for students and local professionals.
Week-long lighting workshops on demand for over 15 years.
Writing about the specificities of cinema lighting.
Complete workflow mastery from ideation to post-production
Using AI as brainstorming partner for concept generation, synopsis development, and moodboard creation. Creating concept art, characters, and storyboards with tools like Midjourney for rapid visual prototyping.
AI direction for motion creation, text-to-video transformation and existing image animation (picture-to-video) to generate coherent and artistically controlled shots.
Integration of AI-generated shots and exploitation of DaVinci Resolve AI tools (Magic mask, voice isolation, sky replacement, motion tracking) to accelerate complex tasks and focus on creativity.
VR experience & real-time animated series, Fauvea Studios
🏆 Finalist "Best Film" VR Summit 2016, Hollywood
Fascinating reinterpretation of table football
🏆 Finalist VR Awards 2018 with ILM XLabs & Framestore
Multi-player collaborative free-roaming experience
VR Forum 2017 selection
7 thematic VR games, Kynoa Studios
Two-part VR game, Kenzan Studios
E-sports FPS multiplayer game
🏆 VR Forum 2017, SVVR San Jose 2017 selection
360° documentary on K2 ascent, Kenzan Studios
Immersive experience, Kenzan VR & Artanim 𓂀
🏆 Finalist "Best Immersive Experience" SIGGRAPH 2014
Feature film + 3D animated series, showrunner and artistic direction
12 spots for new international displays
Multiple spots for Pixit SA including Fortissio and Bukeela
Commercial spot, Pixit SA
Swiss Federal Railways anniversary film, Pixit SA
34 min, Gypsy Prod, Official selection CTE 2003
For "Faut pas rêver", France Télévision
Member of Digital Cinema Society (DCS) and Union of Cinematographers (France)
280+ films, including 30% on film
Director: Hicham Ayne Alhayat
Fiction sequences, Director: Christian Berrut, Filmic & Sons
Director: Mohcine Besri, Fusions Films, Switzerland/Morocco
Major festivals 2012, theatrical release 2013
Director: Hicham Alhayat, Alpha Productions Morocco
Theatrical release December 2010
Director: Franz-Joseph Holzer, Sep & San
35mm feature, Director: Elena Hazanov, Navarro Films
Directors: Anthony Vouardoux & Tania Zambrano-Ovalle
VIPER FilmStream CinemaScope
🏆 Kodak Award for Best Cinematography, Locarno 2005
Director: Mohcine Besri, MD Prod & Ivona Prod
🏆 Best Short Film Award, Festival international tous écrans 2008
Shot in Japan, Director: Maria Nicollier
Official competition Locarno 2011
Film production company. Partner: Carine Besomi
Web design & graphic design studio
Clients: Lenz & Staehelin, Geneva Bar Association, Firmenich, Lombard Odier & Cie, Strain Technology, Médecins sans frontières, Tribune de Genève, Geneva Private Bankers Association.
Photos, infographics, illustrations: commissioning, selection and layout.
Photo library management, IT systems, new products development.
Editorial coordination and writing of professional articles on image and lighting practice.
Co-author of the children's book series (80,000+ copies sold).
Ethno-Contes (written or co-written):
Essays, case studies and tutorials on cinema lighting and framing.
Hundreds of articles, film reviews and interviews for Tribune de Genève, L'Hebdo, Le Journal de Genève, La Suisse, Profil Femme, Scènes Magazine, Rectangle, Coopération.
Weekly Internet column in Tribune de Genève, regular contributions to Webdo, PME Magazine.
Interviews: Woody Allen, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ettore Scola, Philip Kaufman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Day-Lewis, Arthur Penn.