Guy Fihman
Directing
Biography
Filmmaker and researcher born in 1944 in Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes. Studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. Co-founded the Paris Films Coop in February 1974, then Cinédoc. He has been making films since 1969. In pursuing his investigation of the cinematography of colour and how colours are perceived, he has developed various cinematographic systems for viewing colours and for binocular vision: "cinéchromies" and "cinéglyphes". Since 1980, he has been exploring holographic cinema with Claudine Eizykman. Professor and Director of the Department for Film and Audiovisual Studies at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint-Denis). In 1978, he gained his doctorate with a thesis entitled Articulation en dispositifs de quelques configurations de désir (dispositif intermittent).
Known For
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.
Birth of a Nation
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Home Movies 1971-81
No description available.
Tours de Tours
In L'Autre Scène, the images and the sound material try to manifest the mechanism of an advertisement around the blade.
L'autre scène
The movement in this film only consists of variations in color operating on a fixed image based on a Pissaro painting, Les Toits Rouges.
Ultrarouge-lnfraviolet
No description available.
Trois couches suffisent
Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique Willoughby, among others, were active participants, with 5 issues published between 1976 and 1979.
Melba Film Coop
No description available.
Socialisme et Barbarie
Three months of a daily newspaper in one minute.
France-Soir
A portion of a building, Maine Montparnasse, filmed from the 5th floor of a neighboring building according to architectural lines, is transformed by geometric movements more or less fast blurring our perception.