La Boite Visual Art

La Boite Visual Art is a "greenhouse atelier", where projects - personal or commissioned - born, incubate, develop following knowledge's rhythm, inspiration and savoir-faire. This transmedial culture, where different expression ways are side by side (and sometime they crash), is an ideal loam for discovering In 1992, inside the Zone 33 Bern - center focused on image and sound - a sector with an accent on virtual images emerges. This department is called La Boite - the box - in reference to the space where it's placed: the screening room, entirely light proof. The Atelier has a (secondary) residence in south Switzerland and, in 1997 it moves ultimately in Locarno. Current management is assured by Patricia Boillat & Elena Gugliuzza La Boite Visual Art creations are divided in two hemispheres, still & motion design: still design embraces graphics, photography, architecture, installations. Motion design combines filmmaking, CGI, image editing, visual fx and performances. Certain projects rebound from one hemisphere to the other, generating a multiple facets’ work As filmmakers, from 1997 Patricia and Elena have realized several projects, before embarking on the documentary film Nando, andata et ritorno, followed by C.A.L.L.E. and Due Tempi, screened in several European festivals. Followed by Coup d’état, Blackbox3 and Absence, selected at 27th Torino Film Festival & at 46th Journées de Soleure Isola, là dove si parla la lingua di Bacco, creative full-length documentary film, was selected at Douro Film Harvest in Portugal (11.2011), at Festival Oenovidéo in Aigle, Switzerland (05.2012), broadcasted on Eurochannel (USA, Latin America, Africa & Portugal, France) and has been awarded as best documentary film at Most, Penedès Wine & Cava Film Festival (Barcelona - Spain) Phnom, experimental full-length film, was shot in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos between 2012 and 2017, is still in post-production and will be released by end 2025