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Nicolas Philibert

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Nicolas Philibert
Philibert in 2023, with the Golden Bear for On the Adamant
Born (1951-01-10) 10 January 1951 (age 73)
Nancy, France
Alma materUniversity of Grenoble
Occupation(s)Film director, actor
Years active1978-present

Nicolas Philibert (French: [nikɔla filibɛʁ]; born 10 January 1951) is a French film director and actor.

Biography

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Philibert was born in Nancy, France. He studied philosophy in the University of Grenoble.[1] Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth, which encouraged him to embark on a career in the film industry. He started it with filmmaker René Allio in 1970,[2] as a trainee on Les Camisards[3] and then as an assistant on Rude Journée pour la reine (1973),[4] and assistant-director on Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère... (1975).[5][6]

In 1978 he co-directed with Gérard Mordillat a feature documentary His Master's Voice,[7][8] in which a dozen bosses of big industrial groups discuss power, leadership, hierarchies and the role of unions.

Between 1985 and 1987, he made several films about mountains and adventure for TV, then turned to making feature-length documentaries for theatrical distribution: La Ville Louvre (1990), Le Pays des sourds (1992),[9] Un animal, des animaux (1995),[10] La Moindre des choses (1996) [11] - at the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, as well as an experimental film with the pupils of the theatre school Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Qui sait? (1998).

In 2001, Nicolas Philibert made Être et avoir, about daily life in a single class school on a small village in the Auvergne. It won the Prix Louis Delluc 2002, and became a box office and critical success in France and internationally. The film was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.[12]

With Retour en Normandie (2007),[13] he revisited the traces of a previous films, made thirty years earlier by René Allio, with local peasants playing the lead roles. With Nénette (2010),[14] made at the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris, he produced an intimated portrait of the most famous of its inhabitants a female orang-utang, Nénette, held in captivity for 36 years.

La Maison de la radio (2013),[15] takes us into the heart of the French Radio headquarters in Paris, finding out who inhabits the place and discovering the mysteries of its long corridors.

Over the last fifteen years there have been more than 120 retrospectives or 'homages' to Philibert organised internationally including the British Film Institute (London) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).[16][17]

He was one of the directors invited to nominate his favourite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 poll.[18]

He explains, in French, his motivations, his influences (including Agnès Varda) and the history of his career as a documentary film maker, especially the 'impermeable' frontiers between documentary and drama in an interview recorded in April 2012.[19]

Filmography

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Year English title Original title Note
1978 His Master's Voice La Voix de son maître
1985 Christophe Short film
1987 Trilogy for One Man Trilogie pour un homme seul
1988 Baquet's Comeback Le Come-back de Baquet Short film
1988 Go for It, Lapébie! Vas-y Lapébie ! Short film
1990 Louvre City La Ville Louvre
1992 In the Land of the Deaf Le Pays des sourds
1996 Animals Un animal, des animaux
1997 Every Little Thing La Moindre des choses
1999 Who Knows? Qui sait?
2002 To Be and to Have Être et avoir
2007 Back to Normandy Retour en Normandie
2010 Nénette
2013 La Maison de la radio
2018 Each and Every Moment De chaque instant
2023 On the Adamant Sur l'Adamant
2024 At Averroès & Rosa Parks Averroès & Rosa Parks
The Typewriter and Other Headaches La Machine à écrire et autres sources de tracas[20]

References

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  1. ^ "Nicolas Philibert". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 13 February 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ^ "René Allio at Allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Les Camisards on allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Rude Journée on Allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Moi Pierre Rivière on allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Allocine on Philbert". Allocine. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015.
  7. ^ "Gérard Mordillat on Allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  8. ^ "His Master's Voice (La Voix de son maitre) on allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Le pays des sourds (Land of the deaf) on allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  10. ^ "Un animal, des animaux (One animal, some animals) on Allocine". Allocine. allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  11. ^ "Moindre des choses on IMDB". IMDB. IMDB. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022.
  12. ^ "Festival de Cannes: To Be and to Have". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
  13. ^ "Retour en Normandie (Return to Normandy) on Allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  14. ^ "Nénette on Allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
  15. ^ "La Maison de la radio on Allocine". Allocine. Allocine. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015.
  16. ^ "Philibert at MOMA". MOMA website. MOMA. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015.
  17. ^ "Sabzian retrospective". Sabzian.be. Sabzian. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015.
  18. ^ "2012 BFI Greatest Film poll". British Film Institute. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 27 August 2012.
  19. ^ "Entretien avec Nicolas Philibert, réalisateur de "La nuit tombe sur la ménagerie"". Utube. Utube. April 2012. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016.
  20. ^ Isabelle Danel. "Machine à écrire et autres sources de tracas de Nicolas Philibert". Bande à part (in French).
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