Born in Taiwan and raised in London, Manila, and Switzerland, Jean-Michel Brawand is a Swiss-Filipino filmmaker whose films blend documentary realism with impressionistic storytelling. He studied painting and video at Central Saint Martins and has since presented his works in festivals and galleries worldwide.

His approach is deeply personal, making use of an array of home movie footage, family photographs, diary entries, and appropriated images to construct his own visual language. Drawing influence from psychoanalysis, anthropology and long-take realism, he’s worked with both professional and non-professional actors to evoke raw, layered performances. Now based in Berlin, he’s given lectures on film history and visual archaeology, as well as workshops on guerrilla filmmaking.