of documentaries and ethnographic films of all lengths
teasers, trailers and advertising video with documentary character
in content management and
conceptual work
such as videos, audio files, podcasts, photography, text for web content, social media and in the field of education
in digital communication and
live-streamings
organization and curating of events with focus on diversity and sustainability
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In 2015, Martina Pan founded the production company equivalent in Basel, Switzerland.
From 2015 till 2020, productions (reportages, short documentaries, image films, serial and transmedial formats) with an ethnographical approach were the specialties of equivalent. The everyday life and all its changes (social, cultural, medial) the main focus.
Diversity and plurality were (and still are) at the center of the work, and the moving picture was seen as a means of sustainable enlightenment throughout society.
In 2021, she expanded its services. Since then, she has also taken on selected assignments for cultural education, content management and multimedia communication.
She organizes various cultural events and panel discussions in the cultural sector.
Born in 1985 near Basel, Switzerland, Martina Pan studied Cultural Anthropology and Media Studies at the University of Basel and Humboldt University of Berlin. Her academic focus included visual anthropology, ethnographic film, media aesthetics, cultural diversity, urban development, and communication.
Her professional background spans arthouse cinema, journalism, and cultural management. After several years at kult.kino Basel and a leadership role in marketing and communications at the newspaper TagesWoche, she founded the film production company equivalent in 2015.
From 2006 to 2014, she also worked as a cultural programme manager for festivals, cultural institutions, and events in Switzerland and Germany, with a strong focus on participation and inclusion. Today, her documentary work combines ethnographic research with cinematic storytelling and socially relevant topics.
Among others, she has been working with the University of Basel and the Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) and award winners Reto Caduff and Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf.
Since August 2021 she’s responsible for the digital communication at the Museum der Kulturen Basel and produces content in the form of videos, podcasts, photographs and writes for the blog of the house or for exhibitions.
She also worked with the Polyfon Festival Basel 2022 and was responsible for a diverse and sustainable program around music. Together with various actors from NGOs and (cultural) politics, she organized workshops and lectures that focused on raising awareness.
Since 2023, she's head of communication for the BAFF! Internationales Figurentheater Festival, since 2026 for the Theaterfestival Basel.
She will also serve as head of communications for the 2027 edition of the Wildwuchs Festival.
Beyond this she's also actively involved and a member of the «Comitato degli Italiani all’Estero» and serves as co-president of the association «Vario».
Martina Pan lives in Basel-Stadt and is a mother of two children.
Documentary film about Switzerland's colonial entanglements A project with Elisa da Costa and Reto Ulrich
| research, developing and financing |
(workingtitle)
Work within the Museum der Kulturen Basel
Documentation of a collection storage visit with four Ukrainian women exploring the cultural and personal significance of the Wyschywanka in the context of war, identity, and memory.
Exhibition film | commissioned work |Created in collaboration with Cléa Barbier, scientific research assistant, and Tabea Buri, curator
Production of short clips for the inclusive exhibition «The owl is pink – colourful stories» for the Museum der Kulturen Basel
Exhibition videos | commissioned work
Production of short clips for school workshops and the website of the Museum der Kulturen Basel
Videography | commissioned work
Work within the Museum der Kulturen Basel
Provenance research: An initiative of eight museums: research and dialogue with Nigeria |
As a museum employee and filmmaker I’m part of the film team in Switzerland and producer of exhibition short clips for
«In Full View»
Cooperation with BIS | DOP Basel (CH), 2023 || Vidoegraphy in cooperation with curator Ursula Regehr | 3 short film for exhibition, 2025
Documentation of the ceremonies, restitution and events surrounding the return of the dhulu |commissioned by Aiatsis
DOP Basel Martina Pan | commissioned work
Through a ceremony performed in December 2022 in Basel, Brian Martin and Alfred Priestly, members of the Kamilaroi people, and Bradley Webb, a Bundjalung man, reconnected theancestral tree with the communities at home. In doing so, they initiated a process aimed athealing and renewing the relationships. The Kamilaroi people wish for the tree to come homeand have submitted a request for restitution. A return would offer possibilities for change: from a Place of removal and trauma imparted to the people towards relationality andresponsibility of the involved institutions.
Work within the Museum der Kulturen Basel | As a museum employee and filmmaker I was allowed to be part of the film team and to film the smoking ceremony here in Basel. The film is shown in the exhibition «Alive – more than human worlds» and in the Museums Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, from Sept. 2023 till 2025
Simon Rose and Brian Martin | Melbourne (Australia) / Basel (CH) | 2023 | short film, 12 min, in collaboration with MKB | DOP Basel Martina Pan
work within Museum der Kulturen as responsible Digital Communication
A performance in the mountains of Switzerland as contribution to the «Global Water Dances».
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Commissioned film by Martina Pan|(CH) | 2021 | short film, 5 min | supported by Kulturförderung Graubünden, Raiffeisen Bank, Banca Canutnala Grischun, Zernez Nationalpark, EKW OEE and Global Water Dances | cinematography Martina Pan
An experimental documentary about a performance in progress of an inclusive dance group and the symbolic of stairs with the grande finale at the stairs of the Kunsthalle Basel and the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM within the Wildwuchs Festival.
The mix between documentary and experimental film allows for an immersion to the very bottom of the essence. There you can find tangible images, perceptible sounds and the perception of the possible and the impossible as well as the (re)thinking about a more inclusive society.
In house production by Martina Pan | with Sound and a musical carpet by P.Noir | (CH) | short film, 30 min | cinematography Martina Pan and Maria Müller
Training videos of assistant dogs at Blindenhundschule Allschwil, an insight
12 commissioned videos by Martina Pan | (CH) | 2020 | 12 short films, each around 1 min | cinematography Martina Pan and Maria Müller
A documentation about the German school of Tamalpa teaching the dance methods of Anna and Daria Halprin
Commissioned film and production by Martina Pan | Freiburg (D) / Basel (CH) | short film, 30 min | cinematography Martina Pan and Petra Eischeid
A documentary about a three-day ethnographic journey through Tel Aviv - a test pilot
In house production by Martina Pan | Tel Aviv (ISR) / Basel (CH) | short film, 28 min |cinematography Martina Pan
Teaser and cinema advertising about the biennale theater festival in Basel
Commissioned production | (CH) |cinematography Martina Pan and Maria Müller
A portrait about a 81 year old woman, who is 1.32 high and still manages a restaurant in the middle of Switzerland
A Film by Monika Zech und Reto Caduff | broadcast for »Reporter« of the Swiss radio and tv (SRF) | (CH) | 22 min |
Editor/Montage Martina Pan
An experimental movie with dancers of Tamalpa by Anna Halprin dancing a tribute to nature
A Film by Petra Eischeid and Frank Soma | (D) | short film, 30 min | DOP Martina Pan
A documentation of an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the issues of inclusion
Commissioned production |(CH)| cinematography Martina Pan and Maria Müller
A journey through the ethnographic film in Switzerland – Collage for the 550 years anniversary exhibition of the University of Basel
Conceptual film | production within work as a tutor at the University of Basel | (CH)| Editing/Montage Martina Pan
«Herbst» (2017) – One possible answer for the imbalance in a natural colorful world
«Jesses Bar» (2011) – A portrait about a bar keeper
«Plattfon Record Store» (2010) – A portrait about a little vinyl record store in Basel in the digital age
«Die Kraft von Feuer und Wasser» (2010) – A collage about moving images in Swiss amateur films from the 20th century
«Fantasy Bar» (2009) – A short-documentary about the start of the smoking ban by comparing the handling
of it in two cities – Basel and Berlin
The vision of an inclusive society is the daily challenge and equivalent puts this goal in the center. It is about taking responsibility for the time in which we live.
And of course, the productions are green film shootings.
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