Philippe Grandrieux
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Philippe Grandrieux is a French film director and screenwriter. He studied film at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle) in Belgium. In 1976 he exhibited his first video work at Galerie Albert Baronian, Bruxelles.
With a constant tension between plasticity and narration, he works in several areas of kinetic visual arts including: television experiments, fiction, documentary, performance, installation, staging…
Television experiments[edit]
In the 1980s, he worked in collaboration with the french Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) and the television channel La Sept/Arte where he helped develop new cinematographic forms and formats that reconsider some basic principles of film writing such as the conventions behind documentary, information and film essays. In 1990, he created the “Live” film research laboratory, which produced one-hour-long sequences by Robert Kramer, Robert Frank,Thierry Kuntzel, Nick Waplington, Daniele Incalcatera...
Feature films[edit]
In 1998, his first feature Sombre (112’) starring Elina Lowensohn and Marc Barbé won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
In 2002, his second feature A New Life (102’) starring Zach Knighton, Anna Mouglalis, Marc Barbé and Zsolt Nagy was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
A Lake (1h30), his third feature, with Dmitry Kubasov, Natalie Rehorova, Alexei Solonchev, was ready for the 65th Venice Film Festival in 2008. He won a Special Mention in the Orizzonti Section which rewards movies that initiate new cinematographic trends.
In 2016, Beyond The Night (150’), Grandrieux's fourth feature film with Christian Marr, Ariane Labed, Roxane Mesquida, Paul Hamy, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The film was also at Critics' Week during the Berlinale, at Film Comment Selects - Lincoln Center - New York…
In 2018, Grandrieux directed La Lumière, la lumière (10') in the frame of "Liminal" including 4 films, from Lav Diaz, Manuel de Laborde, Oscar Enriquez and Philippe Grandrieux. The proposal was to play on the poetic affinities between cinema and music. Liminal was commissioned by FICUNAM and UNAM. With Camille Grandrieux and Lola Norda
Video clip[edit]
In 2007 Marilyn Manson asked Grandrieux to direct the video for the song Putting Holes in Happiness from his album Eat Me, Drink Me.
Documentary[edit]
His last documentary It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (a joint project with Nicole Brenez) won in 2011 the New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, in 2012 the Great Experimental Prize at Festival Côté Court - Pantin, France and in 2013 The Great Prize For Documentary at the Tripoli Film Festival, Lebanon.
Films, performances, installations[edit]
In 2012 Grandrieux started a work inspired by the concept of «the bare life» from the philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Each movement, White Epilepsy, Meurtrière, Unrest, is a film and a performance with dancers. Each films was presented for the first time at FID Marseille (international and national competition). This work (performances or films) was also presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Radcliffe Institute - Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Centre Pompidou-Metz, ICI-CCN - Montpellier, CCN - Le Havre, among others.
In 2019, The Empty Gallery/Hong Kong presented the exhibition « The Bare Life » with the trilogy White Epilepsy, Meurtrière, Unrest, and The Scream an installation of eleven projections.
Staging and videos[edit]
In May and June 2023, his staging and videos for Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde were presented at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp and Ghent (Belgium), then in June 2024 at the Opéra de Rouen (France).
Awards[edit]
1983 Juste une Image (about the new images - 9 x 55’)
co-author with Louisette Neil and Thierry Garrel
- Grand Prix Scam
1983 Pleine Lune ("soirée thématique" 180’)
co-author with Jérôme Prieur and Thierry Kuntzel
- Prix de l’Association française des critiques de télévision
1998 Sombre (feature 1h52')
- Festival de Locarno: Special Mention of the jury
2009 Un lac (feature 1h30')
- 65th Mostra of Venice Orizzonti: Special Mention of the jury
2009 Un lac (feature 1h30')
- International Film Festival of Las Palmas: Best Photography + Special Mention for Innovation
2016 Meurtrière (film - installation 59')
- Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal: Prix FNC LAB
- Festival FilMadrid: Mention spéciale du jury
2011 It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (documentary 74')
- CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival, Danemark: «New:Vision Award» (2011)
- Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France: Great Experimental Prize (2012)
- Tripoli Festival, Liban: Great Prize For Documentary «Cultural Resistance» (2013)
Solo Retrospectives[edit]
Since 2005, programs devoted to Grandrieux's features (including Sombre, La Vie nouvelle, Un lac, and Malgré la nuit), installations, documentary work and shorts have been presented across the world.
2005: «Philippe Grandrieux» États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas, France
2007: «Breathless, French New New Wave» Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2008: «Extreme Love, around Philippe Grandrieux» Uplink, Tokyo
2008: «Philippe Grandrieux» Tate Modern, London, as part of "Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde cinema 1890-2008 ». With A New Life (La Vie nouvelle), The Late Season (L'Arrière-saison), the video clip Putting Holes in Happiness and an extract from A Lake (Un lac).
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» International Film Festival of Guadalajara, Mexico
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» Cineteca Nacional, Mexico D.F.
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» Belo Horizonte et Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» International Film Festival of Cali, Colombia
2009: «All about Philippe Grandrieux» CPH:DOX International Film Festival of Copenhagen, Denmark
2010: «Film Comment Selects: Philippe Grandrieux » Lincoln Center, New York, USA
2010: «Philippe Grandrieux» Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, USA
2010: «Philippe Grandrieux» International Film Festival of Las Palmas, Spain
2011: «World Cinema Now» Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2012: «Philippe Grandrieux Artist in Focus» Courtisane, Gent, Belgium
2012: «Hommage» organisé par la revue Hors Champ et la Cinémathèque Québécoise, dans le cadre du Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal
2013: «Carte Blanche à Philippe Grandrieux» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA. With the film White Epilepsy and the performance piece Meurtrière (world premiere).
2016: «Philippe Grandrieux Artist in Focus» 17th Jeonju IFF, South Korea
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux» Milan
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux» Seville
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux Tribute» Thessaloniki
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux» ACFK Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic
2019: «Cinéma d’avant-garde: Philippe Grandrieux » Cinémathèque française, Paris. With Sombre, La Vie nouvelle, Un lac, Malgré la nuit, White Epilepsy, Meurtrière, Unrest, L'Arrière-saison
2023: «Rétrospective Philippe Grandrieux» La Cinémathèque du quartier latin, Paris
Scripts[edit]
1998 Sombre / Écrit en collaboration avec Pierre Hogdson et Sophie Fillière 1999
Karain / Adaptation de Karain, The Tales of Unrest de Joseph Conrad 2002
La Vie nouvelle / Écrit en collaboration avec Éric Vuillard
2008 Un Lac / Philippe Grandrieux
2010 The Killing Room / Écrit en collaboration avec Geoff Cox
2012 Malgré la nuit / Écrit en collaboration avec Bertrand Schefer, Rebeca Zlotowski et John-Henry Butterworth
2022 MARCUS / Écrit en collaboration avec Jonathan Littell
Bibliography[edit]
Le cinéma de Philippe Grandrieux : un dispositif de transe ? Milena Escobar, thèse de doctorat Aix-Marseille Université, décembre 2022
Philippe Grandrieux, by Greg Hainge, Bloomsbury Publishing, 300 p., 2016
Rêverie d’un filmeur solitaire par Serge Kaganski, Les Inrockuptibles n°1075, 6-12 juillet 2016
État des corps Malgré la nuit, Raymond Bellour, Trafic n° 98, P.O.L, 2016
Grandrieux dans le flou des corps by Guillaume de Sardes, ed. Prussian Blue # 4, p. 52 -57, 2013
Philippe Grandrieux de la pulsion à la grâce by John Jefferson Selve, Possession Immédiate, # 2, p. 62 - 83, 2015
Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image, Henrik Gustafsson and Asbjoorn Gronstad - Engaging Hand to Hand with the Moving Image: Serra, Viola and Grandrieux’s Radical Gestures, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity beyond French Cinema, Jenny Chamarette. Threatened Corporealities: Thinking the Films of Philippe Grandrieux, ed. Palgrave Macmillian, 2012
Le Futur antérieur, Raymond Bellour, Trafic, n° 70, P.O.L, 2009
Le Corps concrêt, Greg Hainge : «Of Bodily and Filmic Material Excess in Philippe Grandrieux’s Cinema.», ed. Monash University, Melbourne, 2008
Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression, Martine Beugnet, ed. Edinburgh University, 2007
L’Au-delà des images, Christa Blümlinger, Parachute n° 123, Montreal, 2006
La Vie nouvelle/nouvelle Vision, à propos d’un film de Philippe Grandrieux, sous la direction de Nicole Brenez. Avec des textes de : Jonathan Rosenbaum, Raymond Bellour, Nicole Brenez, Sothean Nhieim, Fabien Gaffez, Serge Kaganski Augustin Gimel, Lionel Soukaz, Adrian Martin, Vincent Amiel, Peter Tscherkassky... un DVD du film La Vie nouvelle accompagne la publication, ed. Léo Scheer, Paris, 2005
Holly Terror : Philippe Grandrieux « Sombre », Adrian Martin, ed. Senses Of Cinema, 1999
Pour Sombre, Raymond Bellour, Trafic, n° 28, P.O.L, 1998
Publications[edit]
Texts by Philippe Grandrieux
Deux dessins et un texte pour Médéa de Stephan Crasneanscki, Libraryman Editions, 2023
En vrac, Mettray, ed. Didier Morin, 2022
Troubles, Mettray, ed. Didier Morin, 2021
Au bord d’un lac : Qu’est-ce que le réel ? Des cinéastes prennent position, dir. Andréa Picard, ed. Post-éditions - Cinéma du réel, 2018
Journal de tournage, Malgré la nuit (1ère partie), Trafic, n° 98, ed. P.O.L, été 2016
Journal de tournage, Malgré la nuit (2èrme partie), Mettray, ed. Didier Morin, 2016
Philippe Grandrieux à propos d’Ariane Labed, Possession Immédiate, # 3, p 62. 2015
La Première image, un texte écrit à l’occasion de la parution du n° 700 des Cahiers du cinéma, 2014
Congo, Trafic n° 83, P.O.L, automne 2012
Les Morts, Trafic n° 84, P.O.L, hiver 2012
À quoi bon une image, Le cinéma critique, de l’argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l’objection visuelle : Publication de la Sorbonne, 2010
Sous le ciel de Dwoskin, Trafic n° 76, ed. P.O.L, hiver 2010
Bad Lieutnant d’Abel Ferrara, un texte de Philippe Grandrieux écrit à la demande de Nicole Brenez pour le livret de l’édition DVD de Bad Lieutnant, 2005 Correspondance sur La Vie nouvelle, Philippe Grandrieux et Éric Vuillard, Trafic n° 44, P.O.L, hiver 2002
L’Emprise, Trafic n° 38, ed. P.O.L., été 2001
Sur l’horizon insensé du cinéma, Cahiers du cinéma, hors-série, novembre 2000
Incendie, Trafic n° 16, ed. P.O.L., autome 1995
One Summer, Livraison n°4 Open Landscapes – Closed rooms, 2009-2010, p. 174, 175, 186
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Philippe Grandrieux at IMDb
- http://epilepticfilmbookmusic.com/ Archived 2013-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
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