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Born on May 13, 1980 in Alès (30)
French and Swiss nationalities
EDUCATION
1998–2003: École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, Film Department (ECAL) – Degree in Film Directing
DIRECTOR [SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY]
FICTION
2019 – LES PARTICULES (feature film – 98 min – Les Films du Losange)
Production: Les Films du Poisson – Bande à Part Films
Co-production with: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma – RTS
World premiere: Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2019
Award: Golden Peacock Award (IFFI Goa)
Nominations : Caméra d'or (cannes 2011) - Audience Award Nomination
(Solothurn Film Festival) – Male Revelation Nomination (International Critics’ Lumières Awards) – Nomination
for Best Fiction Film, Swiss Film Prize 2020
Festivals: BIFF Busan, NIFFF Neuchâtel, Hamburg, Melbourne, Sitges…
2003 – NE10 (short film)
Production: ECAL (graduation film)
Festivals: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2004, Cinéma-tout-Ecran Geneva 2003
Award: Special Jury Mention, Cinéma-tout-Ecran Festival, Geneva 2003
DOCUMENTARIES
2015 – ARMAND, NEW YORK (18 min)
Production: Blaise Harrison – Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma
Festivals: Visions du Réel, Nyon 2016 (International Short Film Competition), DOXS!
2014 – ARMAND, 19 ANS (3 min)
Production: Blaise Harrison – Visions du Réel Festival
2013 – L'HARMONIE (60 min)
Production: Les Films du Poisson – Bande à Part Films – ARTE France – RTS
Festivals: Locarno Film Festival, Official Selection “Cineasti del Presente” 2013, Vendôme, Pravo Ljudski
Sarajevo, Solothurn Film Festival, Vilnius International Film Festival…
Award: SCAM Étoile Award 2015
2011 – ARMAND, 15 ANS L'ÉTÉ (50 min)
Production: Les Films du Poisson – ARTE France
Festivals: Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2011, Festival dei Popoli Florence, IndieLisboa, Dok Leipzig,
RIDM Montreal, Krakow Film Festival, DOXS! Duisburg, Visions du Réel, Vendôme, Cinemed…
Award: Best Documentary, Festival dei Popoli, Florence 2011
2008/2010 – CUT-UP (documentary series – 10 films of 3 to 5 min)
Production: Quark Productions – ARTE France
2006 – BIBELESKAES (29 min – Co-directed with Maryam Goormaghtigh)
Festivals: Visions du Réel, Nyon 2006 (Swiss Competition), FIFE 2006 (International Environmental Film
Festival, Paris)…
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY [SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY]
2025 – LE CHANTIER by Jean-Stéphane Bron (90 min – documentary – Pathé / Films Pelleas / Bande à Part Films)
2024 – SOUND OF NEURONS by Alice Winocour (short film, with Prof. Karine Karachi and Vincent Lindon)
2022 – FANTÔMAS DÉMASQUÉ by Dimitri Kourtchine (52 min – documentary, ARTE France)
2022 – CASCADEUSES by Elena Avdija (feature-length documentary – ARTE France)
2021 – REVOIR PARIS by Alice Winocour (feature film – fiction – Second Unit Cinematographer – Pathé)
2017 – L'OPÉRA by Jean-Stéphane Bron (110 min – documentary – Les Films du Losange)
2016 – TABLOÏDS ! by Jean-Baptiste Péretié (70 min – documentary – ARTE France)
2015 – FRENCH BASHING by Jean-Baptiste Péretié (80 min – documentary – Canal+)
2014 – ROCKY IV: LE COUP DE POING AMERICAIN by Dimitri Kourtchine (52 min – documentary, ARTE France –
SCAM Étoile Award 2015)
2012 – AUGUSTINE by Alice Winocour (feature film – fiction – Second Unit Cinematographer – ARP selection –
Critics’ Week, Cannes 2012)
2011 – LA REVANCHE DES GEEKS by Jean-Baptiste Péretié (52 min – documentary – ARTE France)
2011 – LA GUERRE DU GOLF by Lucia Sanchez (52 min – documentary)
2011 – LA MORT DE DANTON by Alice Diop (64 min – documentary – SCAM Étoile Award 2012)
2009 – CUT-UP by Lucia Sanchez, Floriane Devigne, Delphine Dhilly, Pauline Horovitz, Jean-Baptiste
Péretié, Florence Martin-Kessler, etc. (2 to 6 min – 16 documentaries – ARTE France)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2025: Directed the music video WE FORFOT WE CAN’T FLY (Winter Family / Murailles Music / Sub Rosa)
2024: Guest lecturer at FEMIS Paris (senior lecturer, documentary module)
2023: Jury member, Traces de vie Festival, Clermont-Ferrand
2022: Guest lecturer at HEAD Geneva (thesis film mentoring and workshop supervision)
2021: Guest lecturer at ENSA Dijon (workshop focused on documentary portraiture)
2020: Guest lecturer at ECAL Lausanne (head of the documentary directing workshop)
2017: Directed the music video ARCHAIC LANDSCAPE (Winter Family / Ici d’Ailleurs)
2016: Listed among the “100 personalities shaping French-speaking Switzerland” by L’Hebdo magazine
2016: Guest lecturer at ENSA Dijon as part of a Research and Creation Workshop (ARC), Video Department
2015: Jury member, Cinéma du Réel Festival, Paris
CONTACT
blaise.harrison@gmail.com
VOD
Les Particules
L'harmonie
DVD
Les Particules
Armand, 15 ans l'été / L'Harmonie
CD / VINYL / DIGITAL
Les Particules (Three:Four Records)
Original motion picture soundtrack composed by Èlg
Order and information on the label’s website
"Harmonie du soir" (Northern Spy Records)
Original music from L'Harmonie composed by Rhys Chatham, performed by the Pontarlier Municipal Band.
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