Philippe Nicolet

Philippe Nicolet (born 4 January 1953 in Lausanne), is a Swiss film director of both documentaries and fiction.

Journalist and scriptwriter, he was the first editor-in-chief of the Lausanne television station before embarking on a project tracing the history of relations between Switzerland and the European Union for the Jean Monnet Foundation, of which Professor Henri Rieben was the president.

In addition to documentary footage filmed in some fifty countries, he became known for his hundreds of interviews of political, scientific and artistic personages.

Docu-fiction on preventive incarceration 1996-1997: Tomorrow perhaps, science-fiction series 1997: Les terriers de la mémoire, documentary on memory.

2008: Morocco in 3D, documentary about Morocco 2009: Australia in 3D 2010: Iran 3D: Challenge of a civilization, a documentary about Iran today 2011: The Antikythera mechanism, the fingerprints of genius (in 3D) 2011: The film: "YES - In the Present - Live From Lyon" 2012: Music Making History, Montreux Jazz Festival with Claude Nobs 2014: The Enigma of the Mountain Gorillas 2015: D-Couverte Aventicum.

Philippe Nicolet (left) mediates a press conference of the Jean Monnet Foundation with Swiss national deputy Claude Ruey, Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jacques Delors and Helmut Schmidt.