A Nocturnal Workshop
February 21-25, 2022
Workshop Leader: Florian Sanson
HEAD – Genève, Geneva
Movie Set is a workshop led by set designer Florian Sanson, renowned for designing sets for Alice Winocour's Proxima and Holy Motors, as well as Leos Carax's Annette. It constructs a film set for capturing fragments of nocturnal domesticity, artificially recreated from dusk to dawn within the Cube space at HEAD – Genève.
Set design is the creation of the physical space in which the action of a performed event takes place. Primarily used to describe theater and film productions, it encompasses all aspects of the scenery, furniture, props, appearance, and overall look of the stage. It is a central part of the visual production of a film.
Movie Set offers insight into the practice of set design through the creation of night scenes for potential domestic settings. The workshop reflects on the condition and nature of nocturnal props and accessories, setting up an experimental lighting system to create a nighttime atmosphere. By capturing scenes with traveling and lateral tracking shots, students explore the relationship between front and backstage as similar artifices. They delve into interior architecture and set design, viewing them as the intersection for conceptualizing film sets and ensuring the film's scenography. The design fabricates spaces that imbue meaning and style into the world of cinematographic fiction.
HEAD – Genève
Department of Interior Architecture
Department of Cinema
Workshop Leader : Florian Sanson
Assistant: Julie Sando
