Pierre-Yves Borgeaud (born August 25, 1963 in

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, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director. Borgeaud has a bachelor's degree in arts at the

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University in 1990, with a thesis about the influence of jazz on French writers (

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and

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). He has worked as an independent journalist, writing about music and moving images in different media. He also played the drums in jazz and funk bands and worked as a music producer. In 1996, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud is studying at the

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and obtains a certificate at the dpt. of Film, Video & Broadcasting. Since 97, he’s working on documentaries and music videos, especially for the ECM label in Germany. He also participates to a video installation workshop at the Film/Video Arts, New York. In 1998, he becomes one of the Swiss pioneers of

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, presenting live performances with musicians lik
Pierre Audétat

Christy Doran Christy Doran (born 1949) is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland. Doran founded OM with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber, and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this ensemble recorded for ECM. He and Studer also work ...

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or Don Li (composer/musician). Director, producer, and interdisciplinary artist, Borgeaud founded Momentum Production in 1999. In 2000, he receives the price "Young artist" in video awarded by a council of the arts in Switzerland. In 2003, his first long feature ''iXieme: diary of a prisoner'' is awarded with the Golden Leopard in Video at the

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, ...

. In 2004, the short film ''Interface'' is nominated for the best Swiss short film. In 2008, his film ''Return to Goree'', with Senegalese superstar

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, is distributed and awarded worldwide. Best Documentary at the 16th

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in Los Angeles. In 2013, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud's new long feature documentary,
Viramundo
' with Brazilian singer, composer and icon

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is presented for the world premiere at the

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Film Festival in Nyon and distributed worldwide. The film also inaugurates th
T.I.D.E. Experiment
for pan-European and multi-support releases.
TIDE to “day-and-date” release Gilberto Gil doc in ten countries
', SCREEN Daily, 27 February 2013, by Melanie Goodfellow

Selected filmography

Viramundo: a musical journey with Gilberto Gil
', a long feature documentary with the Brazilian musician and ex-minister of culture promoting the power of cultural diversity around the Southern hemisphere (2013). ''Subjective Cinema''. An experimental film shot with some inhabitants of Mireuil in the suburbs of French town La Rochelle, a ''carte blanche'' given by the

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(2009). ''

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''. A musical documentary with African singer Youssou N’Dour,

Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous bo ...

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and others. A road movie on the paths of jazz and slavery (2007). ''Family Music''. A musical and biographical documentary with Austrian brothers Christian et

Wolfgang Muthspiel Wolfgang Muthspiel (born 2 March 1965) is an Austrian jazz guitarist and record label owner. He is the brother of musician Christian Muthspiel. Music career When he was six, he began playing violin, and at fourteen he moved on to classical gu ...

. Coproduction Swiss TV SF DRS (2004). ''iXième : diary of a prisoner''. A video diary of a home prisoner. Written with Stéphane Blok. Golden Leopard, Video Competition, Locarno International Film Festival (2003). ''Interface: cartography 3''. Short feature film with the dance compan

Lausanne. Nominated for Swiss Film Prize in 2004 (2003). ''Stimmhorn: In Land''. A musical film as a composition with du
Stimmhorn
(Balthasar Streiff, alphorns, and Christian Zehnder, overtone singing). Produced by SF-DRS, dpt. Music & dance. (2001). ''Music Hotel''. Some musicians associated to the ECM label are working together during a very special festival in Germany. With

Manfred Eicher Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records. Life and career Eicher was born in Lindau, Germany. He studied music at the Academy of Music in Berlin. He started as a double-bass player of classi ...

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(1998). ''Swiss Jam: swiss musicians in New York''. The cross portraits of composers Peter Scherer, Daniel Schnyder,

Christian Marclay Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality. Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records ...

and

Alex Bugnon Alex Bugnon (born October 10, 1958) is a jazz pianist and composer from Montreux, Switzerland. He is a nephew of Donald Byrd. Bugnon studied at the Paris Conservatory and the Mozart Academy in Salzburg. At age nineteen, he moved to the U.S. and ...

. Coproduction with Télévision Suisse Romande. (1999). ''Miles post mortem''. A short documentary about producer

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(re)mixing the original tapes of Miles Davis. Broadcast on the European channel Arte (1998). ''Nils Petter Molvaer: Song of Sand''. Music video for ECM Records. Broadcast on MTV, Viva, M6, and other channels. (1997).

Video performances and other works

''The white space of Mumbai''. Music and video performance with Don Li, Sujay Bobade, Norbert Pfammater and Wolfgang Zwiauer (2010). ''Le Module''. An art installation presenting the images of medically assisted procreation (2009). ''Premier Cri, dernier Souffle.'' A stage performance for music and live video with du
Stimmhorn
Christian Zehnder and Balthasar Streiff. Presented in main theaters in Switzerland since March 2006. ''New Ballet for Xala''. Conception et direction of a multi-angle DVD including a documentary with dancer and musicia
Ania Losinger
(Xala) and Don Li (composition). Tonus-music / Musikvertrieb (2005). ''Time Experience''. Music & video performance premiered at the Willisau Jazz Festival. With Don Li (composition, clarinets), Ania Losinger (Xala) a.o. (2003). ''The Longest Journey''. Music & video installation with Don Li (composition, clarinets), Ania Losinger (Xala), Björn Meyer (bass) and Jojo Mayer (drums). Premiere at the Swiss Peaks festival in New York, March 2003. Installation presented at the

Musée de l'Élysée Musée de l'Élysée is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.

, Lausanne, February to May 2004. ''One, Three, One''. Live and prepared video images for a concert performance with Leonzio Cherubini (drums, composition), Jacques Demierre (piano), Urs Leimgruber (saxophones) and Katharina Vogel (danser) (2000). ''My Body Electric''. Video and music concert/performance with Pierre Audétat (keyboards, sampler) and Nils Petter Molvaer (trumpet). Premiere at the Jazz Festival Cully 2000 (2000). ''Eye in the City''. Live video and music performance with guitarist Christy Doran. Première at the Jazz Festival Lausanne / Onze Plus. (1999).

References

External links

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Films (extracts) by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud on Vimeo
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