Aurelio Buchwalder

Cinematographer, Director, Lighting Designer

Email: abuchwalder@mailbox.org

Born in 1987 in Arlesheim, Switzerland. 2013 BA in Film from ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), film department. 2019 MA in documentary from ZHdK. For his film THROUGH THE AGES – A GLACIER PERFORMANCE (2014) he received the Cinematography Award at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. 2020 Swiss Film Award, for ISOLA – Best Graduation Film.

Filmography
(a selection)

Director

2019: Isola by Aurelio Buchwalder
2016: Schwemmgut by Aurelio Buchwalder
2014: Lehrling by Aurelio Buchwalder
2011: Regeneration by Aurelio Buchwalder
2008: Faces Of India by Aurelio Buchwalder

Cinematographer

2024: Rien ne va plus – Architektur des Glücks by Michele Cirigliano, Anton von Bredow
2023: all around BASEL | art in public spaces by Marcel Scheible
2022: Hebammen – Auf die Welt kommen by Andrea Leila Kühni
2021: Zilla by Iwan Schumacher
2021: Burning Memories by Alice Schmid
2019: Isola by Aurelio Buchwalder
2019: Wer sind wir? by Edgar Hagen
2018: Eisenberger – Kunst muss schön sein, sagt der Frosch zur Fliege by Hercli Bundi
2018: Aysha Kevin Michele by Florine Leoni
2017: Intime Skizzen by Jannik Giger
2017: Drummer by Felix Hergert
2016: Das Mädchen vom Änziloch by Alice Schmid
2015: Ethiopian Run by Christoph Oertli
2015: What's going on? by Fabienne Andreoli
2014: Padrone e sotto by Michele Cirigliano
2014: Wandelzeit – Eine Gletscherperformance by Jan-Eric Mack
2014: Gabrys by Jannik Giger
2014: Blue Blue Sky by Bigna Tomschin
2014: Inwendig by Jennifer Amelie Vogel
2014: En garde by Florine Leoni
2012: Blindflug by Ninian Green
2011: Magnetfelder by Jan-Eric Mack
2010: She Wolf by Riccardo Bernasconi, Francesca Reverdito

Lighting Designer

2017: Intime Skizzen by Jannik Giger
2014: Gabrys by Jannik Giger
2013: Elite by Piet Baumgartner

Awards

(a selection)

2014: Winterthur, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Kamera Preis (Schweizer Wettbewerb) (Winner) in Wandelzeit – Eine Gletscherperformance
2020: Zürich, Alexis Viktor Thalberg Stifung Dokumentarfilmpreise 2020, Alexis Victor Thalberg-Stiftung, Dokumentarfilmpreis (Winner) in Isola

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