Fernand Melgar
Fernand Melgar (born July 4, 1961 in Tangier ) is a Spanish - Swiss director and producer of documentaries . His films have won numerous awards, including the Golden Leopard "Contemporary Cineasts" and two Swiss film awards.
He is a representative of copyleft , and his films are available for free on platforms such as vimeo .
Life
He is the son of Spanish anarcho-syndicalists from the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), who emigrated to Morocco in the 1930s. With them he secretly emigrated to Switzerland as a seasonal worker in 1964.
In the 1980s he interrupted his economics studies to take part in the Lôzane Bouge movement and to found the Orwell Cabaret and the La Dolce Vita rock club in Lausanne with friends .
From 1983 he was self-taught and made his first documentaries for Swiss television and the cinema. In 1985 he joined Climage, the Association of Independent Film Directors. He left them in 2018 and founded his own production company Le Dzè.
Fernand Melgar lives and works in Lausanne , Switzerland.
Filmography
Short films
- 1983: Performances au Musée Deutsch sur huit jeunes artistes vaudois
- 1986: Le musée imaginaire about an abandoned museum
- 1987: L'homme-nu about an old man who lives naked in a Swiss forest
- 1997: Fou du jeu on gambling addiction in a suburb of Madrid
- 2003: Collection Premier Jour about special days that change life
- 2003: À table on nutrition during the Second World War in Switzerland
- 2003: À l'arrière on the role of women during the Second World War in Switzerland
- 2003: "J" about the Jews on the Swiss border during the Second World War
- 2005: La vallée de la jeunesse on the work of the choreographer Philippe Saire
watch TV
- 1990: Chroniques cathodiques sur la video de creation à New-York
- 1991: Je zappe donc je suis about television in the world
- 2013: Le monde est comme ça about the fate of the deportees from the film Vol spécial
Feature films
- 1993: Album de famille about the emigration of Fernand Melgar's parents to Switzerland
- 1998: Classe d'accueil on the integration of young arrivals in Crissier
- 2002: Remue-ménage about a family man who appears as a transvestite in Moudon
- 2005: Exit, le droit de mourir on euthanasia in French-speaking Switzerland
- 2008: La Forteresse (film) about a home for asylum seekers in Vallorbe
- 2011: Vol spécial about a detention center near Geneva
- 2014: L'Abri on an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne
- 2018: À l'école des philosophes about a specialized school in Yverdon-les-Bains
Installations
- 2005: Le puits on the mysticism of water
- 2009: Dans la forteresse on the visual and acoustic atmosphere of the film La forteresse
Awards
Exit, le droit de mourir (2005)
- 2006: Best Swiss Documentation Prix du Cinéma Suisse ;
- 2006: Best European co-production Golden Link Award;
- 2006: Inspiration Award - Honorable Mention on Full Frame Fest;
- 2006: Mention du jury au FIFF , Namur.
La forteresse (2008)
- 2008: Golden Leopard "Cineasts of the Present", Locarno Film Festival
Vol spécial (2011)
- 2011: First prize of the young jury at the Locarno Film Festival
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fernand Melgar. In: YouTube. Retrieved March 1, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Les enfants du placard -. In: rts.ch. Retrieved March 4, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Best European co-production Golden Link Award 2006
- ↑ Inspiration Award - Honorable Mention at Full Frame Fest 2006
bibliography
- Vianney Schlegel, "Fernand Melgar, L'abri ", Lectures , Les comptes rendus, 2016 (in French)
- Melgar, Fernand “Le Dzè” in Dolce Vita - A Music Club , 2015, ISBN 978-2-8251-4504-3 , édition Âge d'homme
Web links
- Fernand Melgar in the Swiss Film Directory
- Fernand Melgar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melgar, Fernand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish-Swiss director and producer of documentaries |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tangier |