Elias Bötticher | filmstudieren.ch

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.

www.eliasboetticher.ch

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.

A memory of something that never existed

Director, Cinematography, Editor, Screenplay | 2025 | BA Film | 29 min

Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.

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.