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Film portraits of NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awardees 2018
A visual storytelling collaboration between NOMIS Foundation and Camera Arts
- NOMIS Science Film Portraits Media Lab
- 05.10.18
The NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award is presented to exceptional scientists, supporting them in their exploration of unconventional academic paths, thereby inciting new directions in science. The foundation rewards innovative ideas and approaches that involve interdisciplinary collaboration and apply a broad range of methods, building bridges across the boundaries of the sciences and humanities.
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Meeting and working together with Dr. Prof. Didier Fassin, anthropologist and sociologist at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
As part of the award ceremony on October 4th in the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Zurich, three film portraits will be shown, each of them presenting one of the NOMIS Distinguished Scientists 2018.
The films have been created by students and alumni of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Arts and Design, Switzerland. Next to a brief overview of the research, they provide a portrait of each scientist that shows them in their specific, personal environment, where they work and develop ideas and new thoughts.
Central to this portrait series is the connection of scientific work and ‘daily life.’ Each scientist will be visited in their own day-to-day environment, from home to work place to (glimpses of) their social and leisure activities. The underlying idea is that scientific research, like all work, is not an isolated activity, but fully integrated in the life of the scientists and their social and physical habitat.
The film production offers a unique opportunity for the students and young professionals to develop their own conceptual and visual approaches towards research and scientific knowledge as a genre of contemporary visual storytelling. By focusing on the personalities behind the research, the makers highlight the researcher’s motives and inspirations. The students have been responsible for the preparation, research, concept, interviews, filming and the post-production of the films, and are coached by supervisors.
Victoria Orphan,
NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awardee 2018
Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena/Los Angeles
Victoria Orphan and the Camera Arts-NOMIS team 2018.
Don W. Cleveland
NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awardee 2018
Professor at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego
Don Cleveland and the Camera Arts-NOMIS team 2018.
Didier Fassin
NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awardee 2018
Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
Didier Fassin and the Camera Arts-NOMIS team 2018.
CA NOMIS Team 2018
Film portraits have been commissioned by the NOMIS Foundation in Zurich to Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Art and Design, BA in Visual Communication – Camera Arts.
CA NOMIS team 2018: Nadine Häusler, Severin Pomsel, Riccarda Schwarz, Zoé Buess, Christian Gropper, Max Bruinsma, Evert Ypma
Preparation, research, interviews, filming, editing and post-production:
Riccarda Schwarz (Director of the film about Victoria Orphan)
Nadine Häusler (Director of the film about Don Cleveland)
Zoé Buess (Director of the film about Didier Fassin)
Severin Pomsel
Animation: Igor Kuzmic
Music and sound design: Melvyn Buss
Sound mastering: Daniel Bleuer (Student Animation)
Color grading: Vasco Estermann (Alumnus Video)
Supervising editor, research, concept: Max Bruinsma (Amsterdam)
Supervising film maker, post-production: Christian Gropper (Darmstadt)
Producer: Evert Ypma (HSLU / Zurich)
Thanks
Special thanks go to Nathaly Bachmann, Essence Relations, Zurich / Bern who established the initial contact between NOMIS and CA.
Markus Reinhard, Managing director NOMIS Foundation, Zurich
Cosima Crawford, NOMIS Foundation, Zurich
Ursula Fricke, NOMIS Foundation, Zurich
Nathaly Bachmann, Essence Relations, Zurich / Bern