Elias Bötticher

Bachelor of Arts in Film 2025
Elias Bötticher (1997, Arlesheim) lives and works in Zurich.
From 2019 to 2020, he worked at Acte TM in Berlin. From 2020 to 2025, he studied film at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), focusing on camera work and directing.
Elias works independently as photographer, director of photography, and director.
Director, Cinematography, Editor

2025 | A memory of something that never existed | Documentary, Experimental | 29 min | Switzerland

2024 | Silent Mode | Fiction, Experimental | 16 min | ZHdK | CH
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Max Ophüls

2024 | SCHLAFSAND | Documentary, Experimental | 14 min | Director | ZHdK | CH/DE

2021 | SATELLITES | Documentary | 14 min | Co-Director | ZHdK | CH

2021 | Anagnorisis | Short Film, Fiction | 11 min | Co-Director | ZHdK | CH

Cinematography

2025 | The black cat | Drama, Experimental, Thriller | 30 min | Cinematography | Switzerland

2025 | Forum | Drama | 24 min | Cinematography | Switzerland

2025 | Mary | Coming of Age, Drama | 22 min | Cinematography | Switzerland

2024 | Passagères | Drama, Experimental | 16 min | Cinematography | Switzerland

2024 | Schneeland | Fiction, Short Film | 16 min | Cinematography | ZHdK | CH

2024 | Fiori d’aurori | Short Film, Fiction | 10 min | Cinematography | ZHdK | CH

www.eliasboetticher.ch
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Showcase Projects

Mary

Cinematography | 2025 | BA Film | 22 min

The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.

Forum

Cinematography | 2025 | BA Film | 24 min

A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.

The black cat

Cinematography | 2025 | BA Film | 30 min

During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.

Passagères

Cinematography | 2024 | BA Film | 16 min

The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.