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LUCIENNE LANAZ BIO-FILMOGRAPHY
Born in 1937, Zurich, Switzerland. Diploma in commerce and physical education. From 1972, assistant in Swiss film productions and from 1974, free lance documentary filmmaker. Collaborated during several years as interpreter and all-round assistant with the film festivals of Solothurn, Nyon, Locarno, Oberhausen and Bludenz. President and member of the international Jury, film festival Bludenz (Austria 2008, 1997, 1993,1990) and member of an international or ecumenical Jury, film festivals Bilbao (Spain 1978), Imola (Italy 1996), San Giovanni Lupatoto (Italy 1997), Oberhausen (Germany 2007, 2001). From 1995 to 1998 Delegate to the European coordination of film festivals for the film festival Bludenz (Austria).
Teachings:
2008: Lecture on film analysis at the “Haute École fribourgeoise” of social work in the context of the Fribourg (CH) International Film Festival.
Winter 1993/94: Direction of a work-shop on "creation in film-making" for prisoners of the Penitentiary Institution "de la Plaine de l'Orbe", Orbe, Switzerland.
Professional trainings:
2002: Digital tools for directors
1999: Seminary of character and story with Robert McKee
1993: Seminary of the art of decoupage with Slawomir Idziak.
1993: Seminary of story-board with Norbert Iborra.
1992 and 1993: Seminaries of film direction with Wojciech Marczewski.
1990: Seminary of actors direction with Jeremy Chance. Training period as
director with Heiner Carow, German director of longfeature films.
1981: Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service, Artists
Programme, Berlin.
Associative life:
Honorary member of the Swiss Film Maker Association. During 5 years committee member of the Swiss Film Society. 8 years member of the Photo, Film and Video Commission of the Canton of Bern. 15 years active member of the study-group for film of the Alpinale-Vorarlberg, Austria, and 6 years active member of the art commission of the Gallery 2016 in Hauterive, Switzerland. At the present time member of the associations SUISSIMAGE, INTERFILM and "Berne (CH) für den Film".
Books/catalogues (collective): 2004 "Pionnières et Créatrices en Suisse romande XIXème et XXème siècles", Service for the promotion of equality between men and women, publisher Slatkin, CH-Geneva. 2002 "Clé d'art", cultural French language electronic directory, Canton Bern (CH). 2001 doc vision ch, swiss documentary filmmakers, publisher "Clandestin", CH-2542 Pieterlen.
Films / Video:
2009 SUPER COW, 3’, You certainly have never seen cows that way before
2007 FROM EL ATTEUF TO RONCHAMP, work in progress
2006 A HOUSE UNLIKE ANY OTHER, 67'
2005 DID YOU SAY SOROPTIMIST?, 30'
2003 "DONA ANNA", Brazil, 60'
2003 GRIEF AND REVOLT – on both side of war women remember and long for peace, based on the book "The war with two voices" by Laurence Deonna, 42'
2002 ...WE DECLINE ALL RESPONSABILITY... experimental documentary, 13'
1999 LA LUPA Swiss-Italian Singer, 90’
1998 SALVADOR mural painter, Cuba, 16’
1997 A BREACH IN THE BLOCKADE (Una Brecha en el Bloqueo²), Cuba, 54’
1996 THREE DROPS FOR THE FUTURE, Burkina Faso. 1h13'30" trilogy: "MANEGBDZANGA" Development for all, 20', HEART'S HOUSE, 17', and "DIGNITY IN DETENTION", 36'30",
1995 NIGHTMARES... BEHIND BARS, 12'
1993 TV-Spot backing the annual collection of OSEO ("Organisation suisse d'entraide ouvrière", Swiss Organisation of Workers Assistance), 45"
1993 PREVENTING SUFFERING BY TEACHING THE LAW OF WAR, 3', compilation film for the International Committee of the Red Cross
1992 collaboration at the film "PLANS-FIXES" concerning MAX ROBERT, typographer, publisher of art books and founder of the Art Museum of Moutier 50'
1992 "SETU LAULUEMA", 14'
1991 collaboration at the film "PLAN-FIXES" concerning Dr. ARMAND FOREL, PHYSICIAN AND Marxist politician, 50'
1990 for Swiss PTT: scenario of a film AGAINST ALCOHOLISM
1989/90 MY FRIENDS IN THE GDR, with epilogue, 100'
1989 THE ART OF BELL-MAKING, 23'
1987 QUEEN OF ELASTIC, co-directed with Greti Kläy, 30'
1984 PRE-ASSEMBLY YOUTH GATHERING, BUDAPEST, 32', for the Lutheran World Federation
1981 PORTRAIT OF A MAKER OF ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS, STEFAN BECK, 6', for Berlin Television
1980 "I HAVE RIGHTS OVER MY BODY" ... STERILIZATION, 28'
1979/80 WOMEN IN THE NEWSREEL, co-directed with Anne Cunéo
1978/79 THE ESSAY, 17'
1978/79 THE SMITHY, 34'
1978 EVERYDAY PEOPLE, PORTRAIT OF A SHOP ASSISTANT, 25', for Swiss-German television
1976 FIRE, SMOKE, SAUSAGES, 22'
1974 HAPPINESS AT 70, co-directed with Marcel Leiser, 24'
Awards:
2003 ...we decline all responsibility... received the Ebenseer silver bear at the Festival of the Nations in Ebensee, Austria. 1995 the great award of the San Gio' Video Festival in San Giovanni Lupatoto was given to Lucienne Lanaz for the entirety of her work. 1996 "I have rights over my body..." received a distinction of the Jury at the Video Festival Psy in Auxerre, France. 1994 "SETU LAULUEMA" received the award of the "Direction Départementale Jeunesse et Sport de Charente Maritime" at the Festival in Saintes, France. The film "Fire, Smoke, Sausages" received the award of the International Jury of the Anthropological Visual Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, 1989 and a distinction at the Youth Festival in Mannheim in 1979.
The films "Happiness at 70", "Fire, Smoke, Sausages", "The Smithy" and "Queen of Elastic" got the special Swiss quality award.
All films of Lucienne Lanaz have been shown in various international festivals, throughout the world.
Retrospectives and Homage:
in France: 2008, Pro-Fil, Marseille
in Cuba: 1998, Cinema of the Film-library, Havana
in Italy: 1995, San Gio' Video Festival, San Giovanni Lupatoto
in Switzerland: 1993, Museum of Ethnography, Geneva
1991, Cultural Centre, Neuchâtel
1989, Cultural Centre, Moutier
in Germany: 1990, Cinema "Volkshochschule", Essen
1981. Cinema "Arsenal", Berlin
