Born: 26 November 1963, Zürich, Switzerland.

Education: International Center of Photography, New York [1982-83]; Universität Zürich [1983-84; unfinished].

Career: Started as still ph. Co-founder of the photo agency Lookat Photos in Zürich. His photographs appeared in numerous papers [New York Times, Le Monde, a.o.], magazines [Elle, Vogue, a.o.] and in the books 'Indien sehen' [1997] & 'Portrait - Schweizer Autoren' [1998]. Ph commercials.

Awards: As dir: Max Ophüls FF 'Best Short Film' nom [2006] for 'Visite médicale'.



FILMS

1986        Fein raus [Stascha Bader] 16mm/b&w; short/20m

1988        Folgefrucht [Florian Görner & Beat Häner] ?; doc/80m

1990        Karl [Urs Bühler] 16mm/c; short/13m; cph: Hans Meier

1991        Arthur Rimbaud, une biographie [Richard Dindo] c; doc/145m; cph: Pio Corradi & Helena Vagnières

1992        Léopold [Mamouda Zekrya Boulé] 16mm/?; short/16m; prod École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne

1993        La rusna pearsa/Das gefrorene Loch [Dino Simonett] c

1994        Black Blanc Beur/B3 [Stascha Bader] Hi8/c; doc/20m

1994        Panama [Ina Volmer] 16mm/c; short/14m; prod École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne

1994        Dans le petit bois [Mamouda Zekrya Boulé] c; short/19m

1994        Stefanies Geschenk/Stefanie's Present [Mathieu Seiler] b&w; 65m; cph: Stéphane Kuthy

1995        Der Astronaut [Pierre Mennel] c; short/14m; prod Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich

1996        Zakir and His Friends - A Rhythm Experience [Lutz Leonhardt] c; mus doc/90m

1996        Per un raggio di gloria [Villi Hermann] DigiBeta/c; doc/68m

1997        Électrons libres/Électrons statiques [Jean-Marc Moutout] c; short/25m

1998        Lilien [Oliver Rihs] 35bu/c; short/27m

1998        El acordeón del diablo/Spiel mit dem Teufel/The Devil's Accordion [Stefan Schwietert] c; mus doc/90m; 2nd cam

                    (as Felice di Muralto); ph: Ciro Cappellari

1998        L'archiv [Manfred Ferrari] BetaSP/c; short/24m; cph: Stéphane Kuthy

1999        Love [Dominique Margot] 35bu/c; short/8m; prod Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich

1999        ID Swiss [seg 'Making of a Jew' dir by Stina Werenfels & 'Train Fantôme' dir by Thomas Thümena] DigiBeta-to-35mm/c;

                    doc/91m; 7 seg

1999        Nocturne [Thomas Ott] 16mm/?; doc/8m; prod Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich

1999        Not Vital - Half Man, Half Animal [Hercli Bundi] BetaSP/c; doc/55m; cph: Pierre Mennel

1999        Gripsholm [Xavier Koller] cs/c; co-2uc; ph: Pio Corradi

2000        Von Werra [Werner Schweizer] b&w-c; doc/102m; cph: Pio Corradi & W. Schweizer

2000        The Toughest Sheriff in America/America's Toughest Sheriff: Joe Arpaio [Max Jourdan] c; doc/52m

2000        Scheherazade [Riccardo Signorell] s16-35bu (scope)/c

2001        part 2 [Azmi Baumann] BetaSP/c; short/10m; prod Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich

2001        Sömmis da Kerosen/Kerosinträume [Manfred Ferrari] c; short/20m

2001        La mort en exil/Tod im Exil [Ayten Mutlu Saray] 35bu/c; short/26m; prod Haute école d'art et de design, Genève

2001        Brombeerchen/Blackberry [Oliver Rihs] c

2001        Remis [Stefan Ley] c; short/27m

2001        ZüriWest - am Blues vorus [Annina Furrer & Regula Begert] c; mus doc/92m; cph: Richard Grell

2002        Mama hat dich lieb/Mother Loves You [Carla Lia Monti] c; short/32m

2002        I Love Switzerland [Johannes M. Hedinger & Marcus Gossolt] BetaSP/c; short/2m

2002        Nocturne [Riccardo Signorell] s16-35bu/b&w

2004        Un coin d'Azur [Heikki Arekallio] 16mm/c

2005        CEO Clips [Mike Huber] 4 films (ca. 2m each); the CEO of Georg Fischer Piping Systems addresses his staff

2005        Atel - Energy Is Our Business [Riccardo Signorell] c; corporate film/?m; cph: Robert Ralston

2006        Zara [Ayten Mutlu Saray] s16-35bu/c

TELEVISION

1994        Eurocops [ep #13 'Die Falle/Trapped' dir by Samir] series/16mm; cph: Lukas Strebel

1999        Eden [Riccardo Signorell] pilot/16mm

2000        Voyage oriental [Stefan Schwietert] mus doc/56m/DigiBeta; cph: Ciro Cappellari

2000        Lieber Brad [Lutz Konermann] tvm/DigiBeta; or ph or cph Benjamin Dernbecher

2002        Haus ohne Fenster [Peter Reichenbach] tvm/DigiBeta

2003        Wahre Szenen - Eine Klasse vor der Entscheidung [Franz Dängeli & Stefan Mächler] doc/48m/BetaSP; cph:

                    Ludwig Diehl

2003        Geschlecht: weiblich [Dirk Kummer] tvm/s16

2003        Bonhomme de chemin [Frédéric Mermoud] tvm/s16

2004        Alles wegen Hulk [Peter Reichenbach] tvm/s16

2005        Havarie [Xavier Koller] tvm/s16

2005        Sonjas Rückkehr/Wolf und Kopfsalat/Her Second Chance [Tobias Ineichen] tvm/s16

2005        Louis Page/Le pénitent [ep #7 'La vraie vie' dir by Heikki Arekallio] series

2006        Pédra. Un reporter sans frontières - L'aventure de Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, photo-reporter à Paris Match/

                    Pédra. A Reporter Without Borders [Villi Hermann] doc/b&w-c/61m/DigiBeta; cph: Micha Häderer, Alberto Meroni,

                    Pietro Zürcher & Nugzar Nozadze

2007        Das Geheimnis von Murk [Sabine Boss] tvm/s16

2007        La minute kiosque [Bruno Deville & Léo Maillard] 45x 1m films for TSR1-tv

MISCELLANEOUS

1989        All Out [Thomas Koerfer] c.asst; ph: Lukas Strebel

1990        Der Berg/The Mountain [Markus Imhoof] c.asst; ph: Lukas Strebel

1992        Hyènes/Hyenas [Djibril Diop Mambéty] still ph; ph: Matthias Kälin

1992        Samba Traoré [Idrissa Ouédraogo] still ph; ph: Pierre-Laurent Chénieux & Mathieu Vadepied

1992        Ludwig 1881 [Fosco & Donatello Dubini] co-c.asst/co-still ph; ph: Matthias Kälin

1992        Kinder der Landstraße/Child on the Open Road [Urs Egger] c.asst; ph: Lukas Strebel

1994        Pflatsch [dir; short] ph: ?

2001        Circuit [Pascal Salamin] 360° video-projection on 10 screens; for Expo.02 at Yverdon-les-Bains

2004        Visite médicale [dir; + scrpl; short/14m] ph: Michael Saxer