Born in 1961, Dominique Margot graduated in directing from ZHdK, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, in Zurich in 1999, after completing a five year degree in filmmaking. Before dedicating herself fully to cinema, she toured internationally as a light and video artist with the French rock circus Archaos and worked extensively in theatre and dance.
Margot has also worked as Director of Photography on several documentaries in Switzerland and France. Her own films include La Longueur et la largeur du ciel (1998), Toumast – Guitars and Kalashnikovs (2010), Looking Like My Mother (2016) and Zoom on Circus (2020), which have received awards at international film festivals. Looking Like My Mother was presented at Visions du Réel in 2016.
Her project Utopix was selected at the Apulia Film Forum, and her documentary feature Mountain Ride (2024) has been selected for Locarno International Film Festival.
