Jean-Paul Dupuis
Directing
Biography
Filmmaker and composer since 1969, Jean-Paul Dupuis has directed more than 50 films—auteur films and documentary films—and composed music for the image and the stage. A different and experimental filmmaker, he has directed nearly 16 short and feature films. These include "Au-delà des ombres" in 1973, "Arlequin des rues" in 1974 (special mention of the jury at the film festival different from Toulon, "Lithophonie" in 1977 (Grand Prize ex-aequo at the festival of Hyènes). Directed short films with dancers/choreographers (François Verret, Alexander Witzman-Anaya, Peter Morin). Since 1985, he has been producing documentary films and is dedicated to producing films on visual artists and sculptors (Lartangage with Thierry Lefèvre-Grave, Jorge Carrasco). As a director, he co-directed with Claude Brunel several documentaries (Ecouen, La Renaissance en son château; Le Val d’Yerres; La ville de Crosne et d’Yerres; Naissance de l’orgue de Crosne). Composer for documentary series for TV channels: FR3, 5th and Voyage (the "Discover the world" series designed and produced by Pierre Brouwers), he has also composed for dance: AWAnaya, Christine Gérard, Caroline Dudan, for the Theater: Théâtre des Ateliers in Lyon, Théâtre de la Tête Noire in Orleans (Variations on "Hiroshima mon amour" by Marguerite Duras). In 1991, he created a symphonic work "Hydroconcert" for soprano, strings, brass and magnetic tape directed by Alain Damiens of the intercontemporary ensemble.
Known For
A butcher whose meat is most tender, surrounded successively by ephemeral and delightful cashiers.
Boucherie fine
In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages from "Orpheus," the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi, La Nuit Claire is an evocation of the celebrated myth, within which images of the love between its two modern protagonists, Anne and Julien, are inscribed. - BAM/PFA
The Bright Night
Carried by chamanics and cosmics vibrations music, this movie present us Aloual, the fetish actor, in a kind of naked and listless semi-captivity. Sustained by bandages, half floating in the airs, arrowed by glances, this St-Sebastian is the heart of a ritual who combine plastic beauty, Chrisitc's dolor and pagan's voluptuous pleasures.
Transfiguration
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Les funérailles de Marcel Hanoun au Père-Lachaise à Paris
The first series of a film whose course is in parallel with the life of the author. Unlike a newspaper, however, any realistic, everyday element is excluded. Only one theme will carry through the whole work: the expectation of death, its presence at every moment of life, the inexorable advance of time which, hour after hour, day after day, season after season, marks every face, every body transforms every look, invests every place in its light, its forms, its colors, asserts itself in the face of what man believes eternal: the ebb and flow of the sea, the mass of rocks, their stone works.
Les Chants (I, II, III, IV, V)
Long slides of images and sounds reveal the subtle mysteries of a forgotten Eros embodied by Aloual, the fetish actor. A captivating profane ceremony where drawings, photos, objects, assemblages, paintings and fragments of films interpenetrate in strange hybridizations. Slides between digital and film that also cross the territories of Thanatos to resurface in the energy of a wild and joyful dance.
Ecce Angelus
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Gina Pellon
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Au-delà des ombres
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Maloya
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Abs/tracks
Dansité is the visualization, in cinematic space and time, of two bodies in motion; mobile, immobile, intertwined, broken, tense, restrained, suspended between heaven and earth, sand and rock, they suddenly stop, fixing the eternity of the moment.
Dansité
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Lithophonie
The film has been imagined in 1976 and realised in 1980. The idea was highlighting the depth of field throught the cinematic focus. The idea was also that in commercial movies the middle-distances are always blurred, sacrified, not seen, for the advantage of the focused foreground, tool of the narration.
Focalises
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Lignes en fleurs
A simple meal of meticulously photographed ingredients with gruesome close-ups.
The Vegetarians
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Souffle du vent
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L'Age du bois
The body energy, contained, frees itself through the contrasting gaze's light, through the fragmented play music. Energy is concentrated in the gesture time and in the wait of the matter. Ex-Tension: Meeting of a body writing with the duality Image/Music.
Ex-Tension
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L'ivre d'auteurs
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