Simon Piniel was born in Winterthur in 1974. From 1995 to 2000 he studied at the Academy of Art and Design, specializing in the film and video section (hgkz). In 1998 he followed an animation course at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver (Canada).His works include: Tony (1996), Der GehÁ¼lfe(1997), Space (1998), Clean Fishy (2000).