Céline Burnand

Céline Burnand is a Swiss artist and researcher living between Cairo and Berlin. She studied visual arts with a specialization in painting and drawing at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva, and later graduated in art history, literature and history of cinema. After a few years of working and travelling in Switzerland and abroad (San Francisco, Paris, Madrid), she became interested in the potentiality of film to explore the world and social realities beyond the cluster of her studio. She graduated from the Master of Visual and Media anthropology in Berlin in 2017 with her film ‘Looking for a Rifa’i’ that focused on snake handlers in Egypt.