François Caillat
François Caillat, born 1951, spent his childhood in Lorraine.
In Paris, during his school years, he was introduced to the theater (studying dramatic art with François Florent; creating a high school troupe after May 68; participating in the collective experiments of Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil in the early 1970s).
He studied philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS St-Cloud) and became graduate of philosophy (agrégé de philosophie) in 1975.
He taught philosophy for a few years, then finally turned to cinema. He trained by shooting several short fiction films and musical films, before tackling feature films.
For the past twenty years, François Caillat has been making films on the border between documentary and essay. He is interested in representations of the past, traces, absence and oblivion. He defends the concept of a “documentary novel”, which favors the staging and the personal narrative.
Welcome to Bataville and Of Youth and Love are two theatrical films.
The Fourth Generation, Valérie’s case, Three German Soldiers, Médecins de brousse and The Listener are feature films produced for the Arte channel (La Lucarne or Grand Format).
Most recently, Hope, letters on Engagement (2017) is an epistolary film with two voices directed with Silvia Radelli.
Russian Triptych (2018) is a feature film.
In Paris, during his school years, he was introduced to the theater (studying dramatic art with François Florent; creating a high school troupe after May 68; participating in the collective experiments of Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil in the early 1970s).
He studied philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS St-Cloud) and became graduate of philosophy (agrégé de philosophie) in 1975.
He taught philosophy for a few years, then finally turned to cinema. He trained by shooting several short fiction films and musical films, before tackling feature films.
For the past twenty years, François Caillat has been making films on the border between documentary and essay. He is interested in representations of the past, traces, absence and oblivion. He defends the concept of a “documentary novel”, which favors the staging and the personal narrative.
Welcome to Bataville and Of Youth and Love are two theatrical films.
The Fourth Generation, Valérie’s case, Three German Soldiers, Médecins de brousse and The Listener are feature films produced for the Arte channel (La Lucarne or Grand Format).
Most recently, Hope, letters on Engagement (2017) is an epistolary film with two voices directed with Silvia Radelli.
Russian Triptych (2018) is a feature film.
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