For various publications, including Le Temps, the Geneva newspaper of Le Monde group, check out the Articles page. My blog has been a lot of fun, putting me in touch with people all over the world. I have been working on script writing and fiction for many years and hope I have now sharpened my tools. Peine perdue is a script which was selected by The Women's Film Festival of Créteil. A tombeau ouvert was published in a short story compilation. I'm working on Deux Guerriers and on London. Plus blogging. I'm busy.

Writing is a solitary pursuit, with rewarding fruits. When readers communicate their reactions, whether they have been touched or entertained, I feel that some of the glass cage that surrounds me as a writer melts...

Worked as language coach for Ethan Hawke on La Femme du Cinquième, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Ethan wears glasses in this film, and manages to look very attractive, with a kind of mad scientific look. I suppose that's why he's a star. Have recorded for various companies, including Continental and the City of New York. And translated for PBS documentaries (Harlem in Montmartre, The Music Instinct) film projects, government. I've interpreted for BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Dolce and Gabbana.

Language work is  fun and makes for a nice change from producing and writing as all I need to do is take responsibility for a faithful translation or a sound bite. Pay attention, you might recognize my voice on the Continental flights to Paris and Geneva!

I've produced films for Tribe Pictures, managed their human resources and supervised production of their website, check it out:

Expanding their web presence has been really intriguing, including blogging and supervising the production of their newsletter, as well as using tools such as AdWord and Google Analytics which are utterly satisfying to the mathematician in me.

I have enjoyed collaborating with Tribe Pictures since 2005, Vern Oakley and the rest of the team at Tribe are wonderful to work with: fun and stimulating.

I also work with private clients to increase their profile on the web. As they're private, their names do not appear here.

Worked on For Earth Below, a short film with Bill Sage and Brook Smith. Distribution and marketing of Gibtown, a documentary about circus & sideshow people.
Developed films and videos.

Produced short form films for BMW, HP, Gap. Independent Films: Asbury Park, dance film, short film.

You know what indie producing is like in New York: intense, stressing and addictive to workaholics. Plus there's no money to speak of involved!

Inside the Actors' Studio, for Bravo. Connections a documentary about preserving the American Landscape.

Before moving to New York in 1993, I lived and worked in London. It was a lot of fun, but the weather got to me in the long run. As well as the class system.

Assassin of the Tsar (I wish I had convinced them to change the title to Regicide, a closer translation to the Russian and a better title). It was fun and easy working with Malcom McDowell (left), and a thrill with Oleg Yankovski who played in many of Tarkovsky's films. We spent six weeks at Mosfilm Studio, an unforgettable experience. Somewhere there's Super 8 footage I shot of a set of Venice under several feet of snow. And Lost in Siberia with English film & TV star Anthony Andrews. After  many months of very hard work, executive producer Ben Brahms invited us to accompany the films to Cannes.

Voices in the Garden took me to Paris. I worked with the French postproduction team on this film shot in English. Produced by Gaumont and the BBC, the script was based on the novel by Dirk Bogarde. With Anouk Aimée (left) and Joss Ackland.

Reflecting Skin is a feature film which features a very young Viggo Mortensen! It was shot in Canada and postproduced in London. Viggo was charming, professional and had many cultural interests. I understand he's stayed that way.

And many other films, documentaries and short films for the BBC, Channel 4 and the British Film Institute. Including a documentary about the Directors' Fortnight shot during the Cannes Film Festival.

I was also translating when working in England for various companies. Always writing and making short, experimental films. Super 8, 16mm and video. It was fun to collaborate with friends who were budding dancers, choreographers, musicians, actors and artists. A teeming world living on pennies in Thatcher's economically depressed London.

I studied film making at the Battersea Institute. The old Steenbecks (featured left with a heart, because of emotional attachment), the Bolex, the Chinon, the enjoyment of getting the film back from the lab and projecting it, sweet memories. Discovery of my favorite masters:  Visconti, Bergman, Bresson, Fassbinder, Kurosawa, Hou Hsiao Hsien.

Master in biology at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Not for the faint of heart. Math with mathematician students, physics with physicists and chemistry, etc. Math was great, geology riveting, and theoretical physics mind blowing. Chemistry I despised as debased cooking, it doesn't even taste good.

In high school in Lausanne, I studied Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as German. I enjoyed drawing, loved history. I did like math and sports, which was considered really uncool. I discovered 20^th century literature and the Italian cinema which we worshipped as well as its muse: Anna Magnani (left).

My behavior was rowdy in middle school. I enjoyed playing pranks and was just plain rebellious in the face of anything that didn't make sense to me or didn't seem fair. Meanwhile I was making my way through the complete works of Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Thomas Mann, Zola, Dostoïevski, and Checkhov.

I loved elementary school. The wonders of Kindergarten are still with me: the scents of the paints and markers, the large tables for art and the closet full of games. My teacher, Mademoiselle Durieux, was all a teacher can be. She cherished me, even after I locked her in the classroom (she had left the keys in the lock) or stuck all the kids' shoes in a venting pipe (I was annoyed about something).

The previous years' occupational and educational activities are not on record.