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title: "TV report for broadcaster – Glass Maker Matteo Gonet"
description: "The Swiss glassmaker Matteo Gonet makes beautiful art out of glass. Basiliscus Film met him in his workshop close to Basel."
url: "https://basiliscus.net/en/references/tv-program/glass-maker-matteo-gonet"
date: "2026-06-10T01:03:49+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  TV report for broadcaster – Glass Maker Matteo Gonet

## One Shoot Day in the Glass Manufactory – A Portrait of Glass Artist Matteo Gonet

For Deutsche Welle's euromaxx magazine, [Basiliscus Film](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?Itemid=635&lang=en "Basiliscus Film") produced a 4:30-minute artist portrait of Swiss glass artist Matteo Gonet – one of the most sought-after glass artists in Europe. Author and [director Stephanie Drescher](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?Itemid=674&lang=en "Author Stephanie Drescher") developed the concept, wrote the treatment and oversaw the entire production on location. The shoot took place in Münchenstein near Basel.

The dramaturgical challenge: in a single shoot day, the film needed to convey not only a fascinating craft, but also the person behind it – and a project of almost unimaginable scale. When we arrived, Gonet's ten-strong team was working across 1,200 square metres on 40 different commissions simultaneously. The centrepiece: around 1,000 gold-and-glass spheres for 49 fountains in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles – designed by French artist [Jean-Michel Othoniel](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Othoniel "Jean-Michel Othoniel").

### What We Set Out to Show and Tell

The report was structured across seven scenes, following Matteo Gonet's work through the various production processes of his manufactory.

Our [camera team](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?Itemid=827&lang=en "Hire camera teams in Berlin") accompanied Matteo through the glass-blowing process: loading the blowpipe with raw glass, heating it in the 1,200-degree furnace, blowing it into a hand-crafted wooden mould, and shaping the glowing material as steam and hissing fill the air. We filmed the gold-leafing of the finished spheres – each weighing between 4 and 8 kilos before being mounted onto stainless steel poles. The fountain elements for Versailles will stand between 1.50 and 1.70 metres tall and be installed across roughly 100 square metres within a grove of trees – Othoniel's design inspired by the ballet steps of the Sun King Louis XIV.

A highlight of the shoot day: French artist Philippe Parreno came to the manufactory in person to discuss his latest project – a lamp edition whose first prototypes Gonet had already produced. We were able to accompany and document that conversation between glass artist and client as it happened.

#### Similar topic: [The Czech designer Lucie Koldova](https://basiliscus.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=391:the-czech-designer-lucie-koldova&catid=29:tv-magazin&lang=en-GB&Itemid=697 "The Czech designer Lucie Koldova")

####  Client

Deutsche Welle TV | euromaxx

####  topic

Glass art

####  Website

1. [Website Matteo Gonet](https://matteogonet.allyou.net/)

####  Produced

August – September 2014

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####  Our Services

- Research, organization and planning of the film production in Germany and Switzerland
- Shooting with own equipment (Sony FS7, Nikon D800)
- directing and interviews
- Post production and color grading with AVID Symphony on MacPro
- Research and music selection
- Writing the off-text for the speaker
- Transcoding for HD exploitation

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