Geneva - Rare trades and nimble fingers at the Pont de la Machine

Tribune de Genève, Sylvie Guerreiro, January 30, 2020

The new Arcade des Arts cultural center in Geneva is hosting its very first exhibition dedicated to crafts. Don’t expect to see a lot of objects. Talents rares focuses more on video. More exactly on fifteen short films of three minutes each. However, these have just been selected as finalists for the 12th International Film Festival on Crafts which will take place in Montreuil from 24 to 26 April. Produced by a little Swiss prodigy, Thibaut Vallotton, they paint the portrait of fifteen craftsmen from Switzerland and Europe, several of whom are linked to watchmaking.

"Some of these trades are in danger of disappearing. Either because very few people still practice them, or because they use very old techniques that are no longer up to date, or because young people do not know them. ." Fabienne Lupo, President of the FHH