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On the 40th anniversary of his death, it’s high time we paid tribute to Orson Welles: actor with a passion for Shakespeare, radio broadcaster made famous by “War of the Worlds” (1938), he revolutionized cinema forever at the age of 26 with “Citizen Kane” (1941). He made films for cinema and television, experimenting with all […]

In the previous article on descriptive music used in film, we learned that a small musical motif alone can tell or suggest a character, an idea, a memory, a feeling, a destiny. But how? Thanks to a process inherited from lyrical romanticism: the Leitmotiv, the “driving motif”. This motif, a musical phrase that recurs several […]

According to specialist Michel Pastoureau, pink is not one of the colors listed by science in its own right. The history of pink, a second-rate color, is uncertain, elusive, fragile and ephemeral. In the West, pink first made its appearance in court dress in Renaissance Italy in the mid-13th century, then after the Great Black […]

We discovered it in the first article in the Des notes pleines d’images series, madrigalism laid the foundations for a revolutionary idea: music can illustrate, music can tell. But this idea didn’t stop with the refined salons of the Renaissance. It grew, evolved and enriched over the centuries… until it became a universal language at […]

Each year, the BDFIL festival explores a major contemporary social issue through the medium of comics. In 2025, the program explores the links between the world of work and the 9th art. To echo this, the BCUL offers a selection of comics on the theme of work. This selection brings together fictional stories, investigations, historical […]

An emblematic monument of the city, a jewel of Gothic architecture, a place of worship and a witness to religious upheavals, Notre-Dame Cathedral has dominated the city of Lausanne for over seven centuries. To mark its 750th anniversary, the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne is offering a selection of documents to help you (re)discover […]