Documentaries and fiction
1979-2005: Video portraits. Interviews with personalities from all horizons and from all tendencies: heads of state, astronauts, artists, inventors, etc.
1994: Jeanne Calment, the oldest person in the world
1995: In prison. Docu-fiction on preventive incarceration
1996-1997: Tomorrow perhaps, science-fiction series
1997: Les terriers de la mémoire, documentary on memory.
1998: With Maurice Béjart. Reportage in Italy, Switzerland and Russia.
2000 : The Sign of the Eleventh Hour. Full-length feature film. With Nanou Duggan, Roland Carey, Jean-Pierre Althaus and Annie Chaplin
2001: Three architects of Europe. Interview about the Euro with Jacques Delors, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt.
2002: Rêveur (Dreamer), a series focusing on the native country of immigrants. The series was granted the patronage of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO in 2004.
2005: Travels in the Orient by the Baron of Aubonne. Documentary on Jean-Baptiste Tavernier.
2007: 3D Odyssey, docu-fiction relating the history of stereoscopy.
2008: Morocco in 3D, documentary about Morocco
2009: Australia in 3D
2010: Iran 3D: Challenge of a civilization, a documentary about Iran today
2011: The Antikythera mechanism, the fingerprints of genius (in 3D)
2011: The film: "YES - In the Present - Live From Lyon"
2012: Music Making History, Montreux Jazz Festival with Claude Nobs
2014: The Enigma of the Mountain Gorillas
2015: D-Couverte Aventicum. In the capital of the Helvetii, jewels are unveiled after 2000 years. In coproduction with RTS
2015: Looking Towards Our Origins. The mission of the large ESO telescopes in Chile
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