How to film what I want to say / how to say what I want to film

  • February 22, Antoine Parouty
    MSH Bordeaux Conference, Salle Jean Borde, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

Antoine Parouty is director of photography and director.

He spent his childhood in Corrèze. After a Baccalaureate in audiovisual cinema, he went to Africa for several months to do photography. On his return in 1998, he joined Insas in Brussels, in the image section and continued his apprenticeship on film sets in Belgium, as a camera assistant. In 2004, he moved to Paris where he became cinematographer/director of photography, first on shorts and then feature-length fiction films, documentaries, music videos and artists' films. He collaborates, among others, with Patric Chiha, David Teboul, Sébastien Betbeder, Sophie Letourneur, Christelle Lheureux, Sébastien Lifshitz, Valérie Mrejen, Mehdi Ben Attia, Bertrand Bonello. The films he photographed are shown at international festivals, in Cannes and Berlin and S.Lifshitz's two documentaries won the César for best documentary film, which earned him a nomination in 2021 for the César de the best photography with Teenage Girls.

Alongside his career as a cinematographer, he directed several films broadcast in festivals and on Arte , including in 1999, in Mali, his first documentary A Scar Behind the Head and, in 2004, a second, La route des hêtres. In 2010, he wrote and directed a medium-length fiction film Dreams for Winter. In 2018, he shot an essay film, Woods & Waters , shown at festivals and at Paris Photo/Grand Palais.

“My films,” he writes, “of a documentary nature, attempt to question memory, to tell the story of the intimate bonds that people weave with each other and with places. »

He regularly speaks in cinema teaching places (Paris 7 University, Cinéfabrique Lyon, Fémis Paris).

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