Aurelio Buchwalder
Cinematographer, Director, Lighting Designer
- 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
- 2025
- Nebelkinder by Corinne Kuenzli
- 2024
- 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)
- 2020
- Zürich, Alexis Viktor Thalberg Stifung Dokumentarfilmpreise 2020, Alexis Victor Thalberg-Stiftung, Dokumentarfilmpreis (Winner) in Isola
- Winterthur, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Kamera Preis (Schweizer Wettbewerb) (Winner) in Wandelzeit – Eine Gletscherperformance