School / Academy

Hochschule Luzern

  • Memories of Monsoon

    2023 All audiences 4 min

    by Dolker Angotsang, Man Fei Li, Pimonwan Poli

    A young woman picks up a dead dragonfly and looks into its eyes. For a short instance she’s transported back to her memory of her childhood and her grandmother.

  • Pipes

    2022 Adults 4 min

    by Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, Sujanth Ravichandran

    Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and, to his surprise, ends up in a gay fetish club.

  • Sauna

    2021 Adults 4 min

    by Lara Perren, Anna Lena Spring

    Ava enters the sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.

  • Travelogue Tel Aviv

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Samuel Patthey

    A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing, he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself from this contradicting environment.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Huis Clos

    2020 Adults 4 min

    by Nina Winiger

    The bourgeoisie is having a celebration in a round room where eating, sipping, and dancing is followed by dancing, sipping and eating. This could go round and round forever.

  • Them

    2019 16+ 6 min

    by Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle

    IHR (THEM) is the award winning graduation film by Amélie Cochet and Louis Möhrle. It’s a film about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different characters follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to pile up in the courtyard. What seems harmless in the beginning, one night escalates to a total disaster.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Concrete

    2018 16+ 8 min

    by Aira Joana, Luca Struchen, Nicolas Roth & others

    Troubled by the changes he’s going through, a restless backpacker seeks his place in the world. As he experiences a mysterious encounter in a concrete building, he hopes to have finally found such a place.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Perfect Town

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Anaïs Voirol

    In search of perfection a city obeys blindly to selection.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Ooze

    2017 16+ 5 min

    by Kilian Vilim, Vilim Kilian

    In his everyday life, an elevator boy is confronted with the loneliness and the “up and down” of his service. When he tries to attract the attention of his guests, he makes a very different, gloomy encounter with himself.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Living Like Heta

    2017 16+ 6 min

    by Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp

    Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly peculiar house full of curious rooms and endless corridors. Her entire life consists of carefully planned and conducted routines. When the latter get thrown into disarray, Heta‘s world begins to crumble, until she feels compelled to make an irreversible decision.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Immersion

    2016 16+ 3 min

    by Lalita Brunner

    An indoor pool seems fun at on the outside, but things get complicated when one has undressed. Tommy finds his peace as soon as he accepts his condition and immerses in it. He is gliding through the sweaty water. Contrasting colours, sophisticated split screens and geometric plays of forms.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Ivan’s Need

    2015 Adults 6 min

    by Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter

    Ivan is obsessed with the incredible softness of the dough. When kneading, he gets lost in intensive daydreams, not accepting that sooner or later the master baker will turn every wonderfully elastic dough into horribly crispy bread. Until he sees Alva’s looooong breasts.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • Plug & play

    2013 Adults 6 min

    by Michael Frei

    Plug & Play is an award-winning short film and game for your digital device. Explore the feelings of anthropoid creatures that go beyond sexuality and reproduction: love. Plug & Play is a surreal play with plugs.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Kiosk

    2013 10+ 7 min

    by Anete Melece

    For years now, the kiosk has been Olga‘s little home simply because her sweet tooth and monotonous life has made her bigger than the exit. To distract herself, she reads travel magazines and dreams of being far away. An absurd incident starts the beginning of her journey.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Bon Voyage

    2012 16+ 6 min

    by Fabio Friedli

    Dozens of people climb an old truck for the wild journey through the desert and the ocean. Not everybody achieves Europe, where an ambiguous end is waiting.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental