Philippe Grandrieux

Biography

Philippe Grandrieux (born 10 October, 1954; Saint-Étienne) is a French filmmaker. His work covers several cinematographic fields : TV experimentation, video art, research movie, film essay, documentary and museum exhibition. His uncompromised vision of Art, leads him to push the boundaries of the cinematographic fields he is working on. Following the work of Teinosuke Kinugasa, Jean Epstein and Pier Paolo Pasolini who were constantly looking for and inventing new narrative forms that would only fit films, Grandrieux’s films, deriving from horror movies and experimental movies, give the viewer intense sensorial experiences. His goal is to make the viewer psychologically involved in his movies. Its films actually express a whole world of energies based on sensations and affects despite a linear narration and an iconography that relies on archetypes that refer to the archaic images of the fairy tale and the legend.

Directed

1. Sombre (1998) — Director
2. A New Life (2002) — Director
3. A Lake (2008) — Director
4. Despite the Night (2016) — Director
5. White Epilepsy (2012) — Director
6. Meurtrière (2015) — Director
7. Back to Sarajevo (1996) — Director
8. Unrest (2017) — Director
9. It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (2011) — Director
10. A Generation (1982) — Director
11. The Scream (2019) — Director
12. Liminal (2020) — Director
13. Late Season (2007) — Director
14. Gert Jan Theunisse (1993) — Director
15. The Small Screens of Cairo (1983) — Director
16. L'ane à tics phalloides — Director
17. Travail sur l'espace du spectacle — Director
18. Berlin (1987) — Director
19. Histoires — Director
20. Full Moon (1983) — Director
21. Full Size (1984) — Director
22. The Wheel (1993) — Director
23. Long Courrier (1985) — Director
24. The World is All What Happens (1987) — Director
25. Jogo do Bicho (1994) — Director
26. Brian Holm (1993) — Director
27. Cafés (1992) — Director
28. Berlin-Paris-Berlin (1987) — Director
29. Comédies-Comédiens (1986) — Director
30. Balladur / Chirac-Kohl / Juppé (1996) — Director
31. Tristan und Isolde (2023) — Director
32. Met (2006) — Director
33. Grenoble (2006) — Director
34. The Black Hole (1989) — Director
35. The Cubist Painting (1981) — Director
36. Le Labyrinthe - le temps, la memoire, les images (1989) — Director
37. Autopsie (1975) — Director
38. Une expérience de télévision en 1931 (1983) — Director
39. Top Ten Designers in Paris (1980) — Director
40. Azimut (1987) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Back to Sarajevo (1996) — Himself