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Born in 1968 in Paris, I grew up between a mother of classical dance training, and a filmmaker father. Very early on, I was "lucky" enough to have seen my parents separated and so benefitted from an intensive initiation into the world of film every other weekend as principal activity. At the age of fourteen, under school auspices, I organized a "major show" on careers, technology, and genres in film as well as on the history of the cinema! My fifteenth summer saw me enroll in a filmmakers' workshop. That year, I discovered Andrei Tarkovsky's entire filmography… then came the shock of Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny & Alexander". No sooner did I witness its screening than I decided to aspire to the same career as Sven Nikvist's. My father died the year of my baccalaureate and it took me several years, before I entered INSAS (Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion). After two years of preparatory classes in literature and another two in faculty of arts [and letters], I saw my way more clearly, and gained in the bargain a certain analytical rigor as well as a taste for research. After INSAS, came the "classical" career move of assistant cameraman, which I worked at for ten years, apprenticed, as it were, to two directors of photography, Robert Alazraki and Dominique Chapuis; having gleaned from them the ingredients for a mean cuisine of my own, I decided to go into practice as of 2003. After thirty or so short and medium-length films, my transition to feature-length was achieved through Sébastien Betbeder's "Cloud", selected for the Locarno film festival, and has continued with Christine Dory's "The Inseparables", with Marie Vialle and Guillaume Depardieu. The rest yet remains to be written. |
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