Jann Clavadetscher
Biography
Jann Clavadetscher (born Zürich, 1986) is a Swiss-Irish experimental filmmaker who has been a core member of Experimental Film Society since arriving in Dublin in 2005. Trained in Switzerland and Ireland — at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and, later, in Fine Art (Art in the Digital World) at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin — he works across short film, feature film, installation and performance, all conceived within a single, expanded idea of cinema.
His films are built from an unusually wide range of formats and image sources — 35mm, MiniDV, VHS, found footage, CCTV, pocket beamers and hand-cranked projectors — layered into atmospheric, often disorienting textures. Recurring through them is a mysterious alter ego, part explorer, part location scout, part cinema usher, drawn from the silent comedians, who appears and vanishes across the work in a register of deadpan humour, absurdity and self-reflexive play. Controle No. 6 (2015) was shot entirely on the security cameras of a suburban multiplex where he worked, its footage retrieved from CCTV tapes over several weeks.
He made his feature debut with Kino Hospital (2017), and his EFS work extends through the Cine-Medical films Kino Hospital and Kino Clinic and a long collaboration with Rouzbeh Rashidi as actor, cinematographer and co-director. Beyond his own filmmaking he is artistic director of the Debut22 Filmfestival in Klosters and co-director of the Klibühni theatre in Chur, Switzerland.