EMILIE BUJÈS
Artistic Director
(Visions du Réel)
Biography
Emilie Bujès is Artistic director of Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon, which has a.o. welcomed since she was appointed Claire Denis, Werner Herzog, Marco Bellocchio, a newly created exhibition of Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Livre d’image, Petra Costa, Pietro Marcello, Tatiana Huezo, Robert Greene or Philip Scheffner, alongside first time filmmakers presenting their films in the official selection. She has been a programme advisor for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, deputy artistic director of La Roche-sur-Yon IFF and a member of the ‘Image/mouvement’ commission of the CNAP (French National Centre for Visual Arts).
Before this, she was a curator at Geneva Contemporary Art Center and has contributed to festivals or art contexts such as Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, Transmediale (Berlin) or galleries such as Tanya Leighton (Berlin) or Marcelle Alix (Paris). She has been a guest lecturer at several Art Universities and received a Swiss Art Award for curators in 2014.