Suzanne Durand
Sound
Biography
Suzanne Durand is a sound engineer and filmmaker. Born in 1961 in Paris, she studied science and music. At 20, she was a violinist in a chamber orchestra. She then turned to filmmaking, graduating from the École Louis Lumière in 1986. From fiction to documentary, she has worked with Véronique Aubouy, André S. Labarthe, Estelle Fredet, Marcel Trillat, Philippe Faucon, François Daireaux, and others. In the 2000s, she met Antoine Bonfanti, the master of direct sound, and directed a documentary with him as her subject. Since 2015, she has been based near Montpellier, specializing in post-production soundwork and supporting directors "sur les petits chemins de traverses" of documentary cinema.
Known For
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Il était une fois... « King Kong »
A collector of blue marbles is fascinated by the same blue eyes of a young woman he meets one evening in an empty swimming pool.
Bisbille
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Clara ou les lumières du Havre
A documentary on the professional and personal affordances of the influential sound engineer Antoine Bonfanti.
Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening
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Mourir à Charonne, pourquoi ?
A man is giving an interview with the help of an interpreter. But everyone is speaking French, and the translation only serves to say... something else.
L'interview
This sensitive and clear-eyed documentary accompanies five women at the edge of the labor market as they grapple with the compounded pressures of gender inequality and economic insecurity. Their unending work mopping, cutting, cleaning, folding, cooking, sorting, and calculating highlights the overlap of first, second, and third shifts for women, and situates the diffuse transformation of proletariat into precariat at the level of daily life. One of the key works by journalist and engaged documentarian Marcel Trillat. Although he passed away in 2020, his kindness, warmth, and generosity will not be forgotten.