The costume designer, but also the director, the Lausanne artist Anna Van Brée is the winner of the 2024 Swiss Cinema Honorary Prize awarded this Thursday at the 59th Solothurn Film Festival. Theatre, television and cinema owe a lot to him.
59 editions of the Solothurn Days. And in the history of the great Swiss cinema event, it is the first time that the festival’s honorary prize has been awarded to a costume designer. Her name is Anna Van Bree. Cinema and television owe him a lot. Even the theatre. And not just on the textile side.
With this honorable award, Anna Van Brée inscribes her name in a table that includes Tanner, Godard and other Gorettas, these great names of Swiss cinema. She also slips between an emeritus producer – Ruth Waldburger – and the most popular of Swiss actors, the immense Bruno Ganz.
Few women awarded
Few women appear in the roll of honor of a profession that has long remained male (Lilo Pulver, actress, Beki Probst, mediator or Jacqueline Veuve, director) and even fewer people work behind the scenes of a film set: Renato Berta, cameraman and Godard devotee and that’s it.
Costume designer, a predominantly female profession, Anna Van Brée, 59 years old, works alongside Ursula Meier (her films “L’enfant d’en Haut”, “Home”, or more recently “La ligne”), Bruno Deville (” Threatened Species”, coming to our television screens), Jakob Berger (“Cellule de crisis”), Delphine Lehericey (“Les indomitables”) or the duo Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond (“Little Sister”)”). The list is too long to quote in full.
We could also talk about these collaborations on French-speaking theater sets, with the Brazilian Christiane Jatahy, Julien Mages or even Marika Dreistadt for the splendid show “Irina”. Here too the list is long, very long.
Create your own shows
Trained in fashion design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and attended INSAS in Brussels to learn the basics of directing, Anna Van Brée has created her own shows.
The last one dates back to 2016, it left its mark on its audience. “The Orcs” linked the deaths of two children with a direct link to the life of Anna Van Brée. A surprising shortcut between a German bomb falling on a country house in 1944 and this racist skinhead killing passers-by in 2006. Two massacred lives that could not unfold and a myriad of questions.
Beyond this welcome prize, we await, hopefully soon, news from Anna Van Brée’s Compagnie belgosuisse, a costume designer who certainly has what it takes.
Thierry Sartoretti/olhor
2024-01-18 13:30:45
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