In 2020, the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival commissioned Messieurs.ch and Maxime Durand to produce a trailer unveiling the festivals’ huge line-up. The goal was the same as each year: tease and immerse the audience in a new unique edition of the festival. It’s only days before the release of the teaser that the event was cancelled due to the pandemic. In the fall of 2021, Mathieu Jaton (CEO of the festival) kindly allowed us to publish our director’s cut. We were asked to take out the artists' names and we decided to replace them with the famous texts from one of our beloved film « La Haine » by Mathieu Kassovitz.

director - maxime durand

producer - manuel amman

creative director - nathan saurer

motion design - xavier monney

DOP - david baumann (artaban)

camera assistant - stephane kharraji & Sylvain Lugrin

electro - cedrick heckly

making of - jeremy gossiaux

music by sophie hunger - she makes president

a big thank you to the lausanne circus school & to rayan jimenez

Agence: Publicis Luxe / Amandine Ribeiro, Iris Decoux, Marine Michoud, Nathalie Delvigne

Créa: Publicis Luxe / Antoine Bonodot, Alexandre Jean-Marie, Gaël Cornet

Production: Wacko Première Heure / St Louis Paris

Production: MyGosh.co

Direction and CGI Lead: Maxime Durand

CGI partners: Supermafia

Music: Resonate London

Official release March the 1st 2020

AMAUROSE explores indirect relations between people, particularly the consequences about false judgments and slanders. 

Morality, rumors, religions, skin colors and  appearance are the core of modern blindness. Clogged judgement can be a pressure to  anyone... A pressure that can make us lose everything we have, from our head to our love...

Fight for acceptance is not over.

Direction and post - Maxime Durand

Music by Haleek Maul - Die when god wants you

LEX RECORDS 2020

Production - Melissa Hulaj & Eve Stampa

DOP - Grégory Bindschedler

Mövi Operator - Stéphane Kharraji

Camera Assistant - Guillaume Epars

Gaffer - Pierre Olivier Bachmann

Drone Operator - Arnaud Gantenbein

Crane Operator - Sébastien Biollaz

Logistic - Grégoire Durand

Drift Pilot - Julien Loeffel

MUA - Noelia Dejes & Suna Myles

MUA FX - Jérémy Guérdat

Stylist -  Sarah Bounab

Extras manager - Fabrice DeGroot

Photoshop Artist - Karim Joseph Nassar

Laura - Amélie Schouwey

Mia - Audrey Foh

Friend A - Marc Negem

Friend B - Louis Giroud

Friend A double body - Chayanne Fressinaux

Stranger 0 - Robin Braendli

Stranger 1 A - Diane Fagioli

Stranger 1 B - Roberto Garieri

Stranger 2 A - Sven de Almeida

Stranger 2 B - Marie Schönmann

Stranger 2 C - Lara Do

Stranger 3 - Vikki Zed

Stranger 4 - Tessa Gerster

Stranger 5 A - Arturo Reino

Stranger 5 B - Gérald Monier

Stranger 5 C - David Bader 

Rapper - Moh

Stranger 6 - Sandy Juillerat

Stranger 7 - Marie Ramsauer

Riot Guy - Joshua

EXTRAS

Fanny Pittolaz, Charlotte Look, Mathieu Boson, Béatrice Gomes, Delphine Garcia

Lola Sacier, Nathan Saurer, Sarah Leone, Alessia Meini, Dean Rouse

Karim Cardinaux, Gianni Camporota, Valentine Loup,  Aurnélie Lelo

Tina Akhalaia,  Célia Roche, Ludivine Morex, Michael Facchin,  Amalia DeStoppani

Martin,  Aurélia Zima, Maxime Volpato, Jessica Perret, Marie Vaccaro

Marine Flora Meier, Michael Baguera, Boris, Aurélie Gay

Special THANKS to :

Swisslabel Productions

Altamont Production

MyGosh.co

Imaginastudio

Messieurs.ch

Video Ventura

Lex Records

Hi. Lab

Pomp it up

Archives

Visuals Switzerland

33 Sound System

Dupertuis

Office Fédéral des Routes

CBM Services

Sables et Gravière La Poissine

Gravière de la Claie aux Moines

This is a Director's Cut. Regular version can be find on client's website :)

Production: messieurs.ch

Models: Diane-Laure et Rose

DOP: Grégory Bindschedler

MUA: Suna Myles

Sound design: Grégoire et Maxime Durand

Direction & post: Maxime Durand