Jacqueline Veuve

Jacqueline Veuve 29 January 1930 18 April 2013 was a Swiss filmmaker known for ethnographical cinema She has been referred to as the great lady of the Swiss documentary film She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the 2013 Swiss Film Prize Jacqueline Reber was born in Payerne Switzerland in 1930 to Maurice Reber and Yvonne Reymond After studying in Lausanne she attended the School of Library and Information Science in Geneva 19521953 Veuve then went to Paris to work on her diploma thesis and she met the French filmmaker and ethnologist Jean Rouch in 1955 at the Museum of Man She made her first short film Le Panier à viande in 1966 with Swiss director Yves Yersin In the early 1970s she spent time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work with British documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock and during her time there she made two short films about the womens movement in the United States According to Maire her interest in ethnology was revealed through film Jacqueline Veuve had a strong sense of attitude of everything that has to be shown or left out so that the audience can understand Examples of this are the film series on the wood professions the Métiers du bois such as the films Claude Lebet luthier Claude Lebet violin maker 1988 Armand Rouiller fabricant de luges Armand Rouiller Schlittenmacher 1987 or Marcellin Babey tourneur sur bois Marcellin Babey Drechsler 1989 or the Chronique vigneronne1999 on viticulture and the Chronique paysanne en Gruyère 1990 the farmers chronicle At Jacqueline Veuve complex alpine cheese becomes a completely transparent matter And better still a compelling story Her masterful gift of description allows her to go on She stages reality so much that tension arises while making the cheese Or when cutting shingles in Valais In 1974 Veuve founded her own film production company in Lausanne Aquarius Films Some of her films were commissioned and others were done on a freelance basis Her first fulllength documentary La Mort du grandpère ou Le Sommeil du juste The death of the grandfather or The sleep of the just was shown at the Locarno Film Festival in 1978 Her last documentary premiered in 2012 Titled Vibrato it was about the Friborg choir of the Collège StMichel Jacqueline Veuve made a total of 14 fulllength films including some feature films Parti sans laisser daddress 1982 LÉvanouie 1992 Throughout her lifetime she shot more than 60 short and feature documentaries presented in festivals around the world and crowned with international awards Jacqueline Veuve married Léopold Veuve in 1956 and had two children Source Article Jacqueline Veuve from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30