Climage - CLIMAGE - Création et diffusion de films documentaires

Founded in 1985 in Lausanne, Climage has been the crucible from which some fifty films have emerged. In its early days, Climage was a laboratory for exploring new formats and narrative forms. Alex Mayenfisch, Yves Kropf (and a little later Antoine Jaccoud), founding members of Climage were inspired by the rise of private television channels in the USA and the birth of creative video, thus giving Climage a rebellious, dissident and innovative identity. The first creations of the collective were short fictions, sketches and video art experiments. In the beginning of the 90s, the members of Climage decided to embrace documentary to «tell the story of Switzerland».

Exploring different forms, these films have in common that they are made by authors with a strong social and historical conscience. Originally a collective of independent filmmakers, Climage is now a production company, open to all forms of exploration, language and documentary format

PRODUCTION TEAM

Stéphane Goël

Born in 1965 in Lausanne, Stéphane Goël worked as an independent editor and director from 1985. He then went to New York for six years where he trained in documentaries with John Reilly and Julie Gustafson at the Global Village Experimental Center and collaborated on experimental and poetic videos, with artists and filmmakers like Nam June Paik, Alexander Hahn, Shigeko Kubota. Back in Switzerland, he joined the Climage collective in which he produced and directed numerous documentaries for cinema and television. Curious and eclectic, his films explore utopias and tell about emigration, the quest for Paradise, the transformation of the rural world, the commitment to solidarity, the social and political struggles for equality, worker’s rights or against climate change, with a strong inclination for history and personal stories.

stephane@climage.ch

Daniel Wyss

Born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1978, he lives in the canton of Vaud since 1991. Self-taught, he works as a director, producer and VJ. In 2004, he joined Climage, a collective of independent filmmakers in Lausanne, and began directing and producing documentary films. Between 2013 and 2019, he directed and produced his historical trilogy on the relationship between Switzerland and foreign countries: “La barque n’est pas pleine” (2014) shows a Switzerland of solidarity, “Atterrissage Forcé” (2015) an opportunistic Switzerland and “Ambassade” (2019) a mediating Switzerland. Daniel Wyss co-directed a documentary series for RTS on the countryside youth movement and is preparing a feature documentary on roses on Valentine’s day. Daniel Wyss speaks French, English, German, Spanish and Italian fluently. daniel@climage.ch

Pascaline Sordet

Pascaline Sordet joined Climage in 2020 as a producer. She has worked as a journalist for newspaper and radio show for 10 years and more recently as a scriptwriter for documentary and fiction series projects. She was the producer of L’Illustré podcasts launched in October 2021 (including one she directed and hosted called «Y a pas d’âge»). She is the creator of the podcast «Raffut» for Le Temps (Winner of the 2019 Women and Medias Prize). Her role as editor-in-chief of Cinébulletin, the audiovisual professional’s magazine of Switzerland, gave her an excellent knowledge of the Swiss industry and its production landscape, both technical and political. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the Film Section of the HEAD – Geneva in 2009 and a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Lausanne.

Pascaline Sordet speaks French, English and German

pascaline@climage.ch

CONTACT

Association Climage
Rue du Maupas 8
1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 648 35 61

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