SWISS
SCIENCE FILM ACADEMY
Program
Scientists-as-Filmmakers
IV SCIENCE FILM-MAKING MARATHON
For all Swiss universities and research centres
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32 scientists-as-filmmakers from all Swiss universities and research centres worked with 10 professional filmmakers in three days (29-31 Nov. ) to produce 9 films.
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In the film-making marathon, we train Swiss researchers in tools used in dramatic storytelling and filmmaking to communicate their research, thereby making their science more readily accessible for a broader audience. Course participants learn the basics of visual storytelling and filmmaking and in working in groups supervised by professional filmmakers produceshort films during threeintensive course days.
CONCRETE
SWITZERLAND 2020,1:13 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Patrick Valeri
EPFL
Valérian Zeender
University of Zurich
STORY
While concrete is seen as a monotonous voracious green-space eater, it is still one of the central actor of our modern infrastructures. But did you realise that concrete is more than a material and that its quality depends on the use we make of it?
THE BITTER STORY OF SWEETNESS
SWITZERLAND 2020, 3:30 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Braida Thom
ETH Zurich
Claude Müller
ETH Zurich
Dila Suay
University of Zurich
Hélène Iven
ETH Zurich
STORY
The bitter story of sweetness is taking the audience on a journey from the darkness inside a cocoa pod to the darkness of a stomach.
NO DENIAL
SWITZERLAND 2020, 3:45 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Bennet Schwoon
University of Zurich
Nazek Noureddine
University of Zurich
Francesco Giardina
ETH Zurich
Daniela Ivan
University of Bern
Kristina Berve
University of Bern
STORY
`NO DENIAL` highlights a recent discovery by a team of Swiss Scientists studying the mechanisms behind SARS-Covid-19 viral infection and underlines the necessity of a closer collaboration between scientists and the media to fight against misinformation.
WILD UTOPIA
SWITZERLAND 2020, 2:30 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Dilsad Dagtekin
University of Zurich
Thais Guillen Otero
University of Zurich
Nathalie Leutenegger
University of Zurich
STORY
Climate change and humans are destroying habitable spaces for animals every day. Wild Utopia tells the story of Dan, a teenage deer who is searching for his own patch of forest. A journey full of challenges begins. Will he make it?
WHO IS (NOT) SWISS
SWITZERLAND 2020, 4:04 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Kristina Eiviler
University of Zurich
Monika Molnar
University of Zurich
Petra Sidler
FHNW & NCCR – on the move
STORY
Appearances may lead to curiosity about where someone is from, oblivious of how such a curiosity may label me different from you and thus may impinge on personal belonging.
JOURNEY OF A PROTON
SWITZERLAND 2020, 3:25 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Pranitha Kamat
University of Zurich
Gayatri Muthukrishnan
PSU
Dance Your Science
Sharmila Bansal Rao
University of Zurich
Dance Your Science
STORY
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is a human endeavor. It took over two decades and 35000 people globally to unravel how the smallest building blocks of all matter receive mass. In this film, we use Bharatanatyam, an Indian Classical Dance, to illustrate the journey of protons in the LHC.
WAKE UP
SWITZERLAND 2020, 2:10 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Özhan Özkaya
University of Zurich
Alizée Le Moigne
University of Zurich
Ekaterina Koleva
ETH Zurich
Allen Puente-Urbina
ETH Zurich
STORY
An environmentally depressed man gives up fighting for the environment then wakes up in green utopia after an accident.
THE POWER OF THE SMALL
SWITZERLAND 2020, 3 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Christian Horvat
University of Bern
Satyajeet Rao
University of Zurich
Rita Saleh
ETH Zürich
STORY
In machine learning, we try to learn how data is generated. In this short video, we show how this could actually look like from the perspective of the data-points.
A SOUND JOURNEY
SWITZERLAND 2020, 2:50 min, English
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SCIENTISTS-AS-FILMMAKERS
Florence Steiner
University of Zurich
Huw Swanborough
University of Zurich
Gwen Schönfeld
University of Zurich
Martina Conti
PHSZ
STORY
Everyday communication requires our brains to perform multi-facetted signal processing of highest complexity. In this video we follow the intricate subconscious processes it takes to make even a simple conversation work successfully.