{{short description|French film director and screenwriter (born 1954)}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=February 2023}} {{Promotional|date=April 2024}} }} {{Infobox person | image = Philippe Grandrieux 2009-01a.jpg | caption = Grandrieux presenting ''Sombre'' in Paris in 2009 | name = Philippe Grandrieux | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1954}} | birth_place = Saint-Étienne, France | death_date = | death_place = | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | othername = | occupation = Film director<br>screenwriter | years_active = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = }} '''Philippe Grandrieux''' (born in 1954) is a French film director and screenwriter. He studied film at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle) in Belgium.<ref>Frédéric Zarch, ''Dictionnaire historique du cinéma de Saint-Étienne'', PU, Saint-Étienne, 2008, <abbr>p.</abbr> 81.</ref> In 1976, he exhibited his first video work at Galerie Albert Baronian, Bruxelles.
He works in several areas of kinetic visual arts, including: television experiments, feature films, documentaries, performance, installation, staging.
==Work==
=== Television experiments === In the 1980s, he worked in collaboration with the French Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) and the television channel La Sept/Arte where he helped develop new cinematographic forms and formats that reconsider some basic principles of film writing such as the conventions behind documentary, information and film essays. In 1990, he created the “Live” film research laboratory, which produced one-hour-long sequences by Robert Kramer, Robert Frank,[https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/ressources/personne/co4MK4o Thierry Kuntzel], Nick Waplington, Dominique Dubosc, Daniele Incalcatera,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniele Incalcaterra |url=https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_liste_generique/C_1066_F |website=Film Documentaire}}</ref> Christian Argentino,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christian Argentino |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0034481/ |website=IMDB}}</ref> Lasse Naukkarinen<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lassekkarinen |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622583/?language=fr-fr |website=IMDB}}</ref> among others.
=== Feature films === In 1998, his first feature ''Sombre'' won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival. Starring Elina Lowensohn and Marc Barbé.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sombre |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/64082.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>
In 2002, ''A New Life'' premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Zach Knighton, Anna Mouglalis, Marc Barbé and Zsolt Nagy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=La Vie nouvelle |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/82332.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>
In 2008, ''A Lake'' screened at the 65th Venice Film Festival. It won a Special Mention in the Orizzonti Section<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/29091/un-lac | title=Un lac de Philippe Grandrieux (2008) - Unifrance }}</ref> which rewards movies that initiate new cinematographic trends. With Dmitry Kubasov, Natalie Rehorova, Alexei Solonchev.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Un lac |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/107385.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>
In 2016, ''Despite The Night'', with Christian Marr, Ariane Labed, Roxane Mesquida, Paul Hamy, Aurélien Recoing, was premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The film was also at Critics' Week during the Berlinale, at Film Comment Selects - Lincoln Center - New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malgré la nuit |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/132019.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>
In 2018, Grandrieux directed ''La Lumière, la lumière''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/liminal/ | title=Liminal – FIDMarseille }}</ref>, a segment of the anthology film ''Liminal''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ficunam.unam.mx/pelicula/liminal/ | title=Liminal – FICUNAM }}</ref> including three other short films from Lav Diaz, Manuel de Laborde, and Oscar Enriquez. The proposal was to play on the poetic affinities between cinema and music. Liminal was commissioned by FICUNAM<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/liminal/ | title=Liminal – FIDMarseille }}</ref> and UNAM. With Camille Grandrieux and Lola Norda.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6488705/?language=fr-fr | title=Lola Norda | Producer, Actress | website=IMDb }}</ref>
In 2025, Grandrieux was preparing a new feature film ''Marcus,'' from a screenplay co-written with Jonathan Littell.
=== Video clip === In 2007 Marilyn Manson asked Grandrieux to direct the video for the song "Putting Holes in Happiness" from his album Eat Me, Drink Me.
=== Documentary === His last documentary ''It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi'' <ref>{{Cite web |title=Il se peut que la beauté... / Masao Adachi |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/cxx76GL |website=Centre Pompidou}}</ref> won in 2011 the New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX - Copenhagen, in 2012 the Great Experimental Prize at Festival Côté Court - Pantin,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adachi by Grandrieux |url=https://www.cotecourt.org/film/il-se-peut-que-la-beaute-ait-renforce-notre-resolution-masao-adachi |website=Côté Court Pantin}}</ref> France and in 2013 The Great Prize For Documentary at the Tripoli Film Festival - Lebanon. This film was previewed at the Cinémathèque Française, at the Centre Pompidou, at Fid Marseille (international selection) and then in more than 40 festivals.
=== Films, performances, installations === In 2012 Grandrieux started a work inspired by the concept of «the bare life»<ref>« La vie nue (zôè) désigne chez les Grecs le simple fait de vivre, commun à tous les êtres vivants (animaux, hommes ou dieux), cette vie est distincte de la vie qualifiée (bios) qui indique la forme ou la façon de vivre propre à un individu ou à un groupe. »
''Homo Sacer, Le pouvoir souverain et la vie nue'', Giorgio Agamben, Le Seuil, Paris, 1998.</ref> from the philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Each movement, ''White Epilepsy'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://specchioscuro.it/white-epilepsy/#english | title=La Figura e la sensazione: "White Epilepsy" di Philippe Grandrieux | date=24 September 2015 }}</ref> ''Meurtrière''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://specchioscuro.it/meurtriere/ | title=Il corpo pulsionale: Una lettura lacaniana di "Meurtrière" | date=22 August 2015 }}</ref> and ''Unrest'', is a film and a performance with dancers. Each film was presented for the first time at FID Marseille (international or national competition). This work (performances or films) was also presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Radcliffe Institute - Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Centre Pompidou-Metz, ICI-CCN - Montpellier, and CCN - Le Havre.
In 2019, The Empty Gallery (Hong Kong) presented the exhibition "The Bare Life" with the trilogy ''White Epilepsy, Meurtrière, Unrest'', and ''The Scream'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Scream |url=https://emptygallery.com/exhibitions/eg16-the-bare-life/ |website=The Empty Gallery - Hong Kong}}</ref> an installation of eleven projections.
=== Staging and videos === In May and June 2023, his staging and videos for Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde were presented at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tristan and Isolde |url=https://www.operaballet.be/en/programme/season-2022-2023/tristan-und-isolde |website=Opera Ballet Vlaaderen}}</ref> in Antwerp and Ghent (Belgium), then in June 2024 at the Opéra de Rouen,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tristan et Isolde |url=https://www.operaderouen.fr/programmation/tristan-et-isolde/ |website=Opéra de Rouen}}</ref> France.
=== Teaching === 2012 / 2013: Visiting Fiction Film Professor at Harvard University
=== Fellowship === 2015 / 2016: [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/philippe-grandrieux Fellowship from The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study] at Harvard University
==Awards== 1983 ''Juste une Image'' (about the new images - 9 x 55’) co-author with Louisette Neil and Thierry Garrel<br>- Grand Prix Scam
1983'' Pleine Lune'' ("soirée thématique" 180’) co-author with Jérôme Prieur and Thierry Kuntzel<br> - Prix de l’Association française des critiques de télévision
1998 ''Sombre''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sombre |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/64082.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref> (feature 112')<br>- Festival de Locarno: Special Mention of the jury
2009 ''Un lac''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://specchioscuro.it/un-lac/ | title=Un lac (Philippe Grandrieux, 2008) - Recensione | date=21 September 2015 }}</ref> (feature 90')<br>- 65th Mostra of Venice Orizzonti: Special Mention of the jury
2009 ''Un lac''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://specchioscuro.it/il-cinema-di-philippe-grandrieux/ | title=Fuori numero - Il cinema di Philippe Grandrieux }}</ref> (feature 90')<br>- International Film Festival of Las Palmas: Best Photography + Special Mention for Innovation
2016 ''Meurtrière''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://specchioscuro.it/meurtriere/#english | title=Il corpo pulsionale: Una lettura lacaniana di "Meurtrière" | date=22 August 2015 }}</ref> (film - installation 59')<br>- Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal: Prix FNC LAB <br>- Festival FilMadrid: Mention spéciale du jury
2011 ''It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi'' (documentary 74')<br>- CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival, Danemark: «New:Vision Award» (2011)
- Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France: Great Experimental Prize (2012)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il se peut que la beauté... / Masao Adachi |url=https://www.cotecourt.org/film/il-se-peut-que-la-beaute-ait-renforce-notre-resolution-masao-adachi |website=Festival Côté court - Pantin}}</ref>
- Tripoli Festival, Liban: Great Prize For Documentary «Cultural Resistance» (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il se peut que la beauté... / Masao Adachi |url=https://www.tripoli-filmfest.com |website=Tripoli Film Festival}}</ref>
== Solo Retrospectives == Since 2005, programs devoted to Grandrieux's features (including ''Sombre'', ''La Vie nouvelle'', ''Un lac,'' and ''Malgré la nuit''), installations, documentary work and shorts have been presented across the world.
2005: «Philippe Grandrieux» États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas, France
2007: «Breathless, French New New Wave» Australian Cinematheque, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2008: «Extreme Love, around Philippe Grandrieux» Uplink, Tokyo
2008: «Philippe Grandrieux» Tate Modern, London, as part of "Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde cinema 1890-2008». With ''A New Life (La Vie nouvelle)'', ''The Late Season'' ''(L'Arrière-saison)'', the video clip ''Putting Holes in Happiness'' and an extract from ''A Lake (Un lac)''.
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» International Film Festival of Guadalajara, Mexico
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» Cineteca Nacional, Mexico
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» Belo Horizonte and São Paulo, Brazil
2009: «Ciclo Philippe Grandrieux» International Film Festival of Cali, Colombia
2009: «All about Philippe Grandrieux» CPH:DOX International Film Festival of Copenhagen, Denmark
2010: «Film Comment Selects: Philippe Grandrieux» Lincoln Center, New York, USA
2010: «Philippe Grandrieux» Harvard Film Archive,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philippe Grandrieux |url=https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/night-visionary-philippe-grandrieuxs-adventures-in-perceptio |website=Harvard Film Archive|date=21 February 2010 }}</ref> Cambridge, USA
2010: «Philippe Grandrieux» International Film Festival of Las Palmas, Spain
2011: «World Cinema Now» Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2012: «Philippe Grandrieux Artist in Focus» Courtisane, Gent, Belgium
2012: «Hommage» organisé par la revue Hors Champ et la Cinémathèque Québécoise, dans le cadre du Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal
2013: «Carte Blanche à Philippe Grandrieux» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US. With the film White Epilepsy and the performance piece Meurtrière (world premiere).
2016: «Philippe Grandrieux Artist in Focus» 17th Jeonju IFF, South Korea
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux» Milan
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux» Seville
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux Tribute» Thessaloniki
2017: «Philippe Grandrieux» ACFK Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic
2019: ''White Epilepsy'', ''Meurtrière'', ''Unrest'' as well as ''The Scream'', an installation of eleven projections, have been presented at the Empty Gallery/Hong Kong in a solo exhibition entitled ''[https://emptygallery.com/exhibitions/eg16-the-bare-life/ The Bare Life]''.
2019: «Cinéma d’avant-garde: Philippe Grandrieux» Cinémathèque française, Paris. With ''Sombre'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sombre |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/64082.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref> ''La Vie nouvelle'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=La Vie nouvelle |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/82332.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref> ''Un lac'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Un lac |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/107385.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref> ''Malgré la nuit''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malgré la nuit |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/132019.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>'','' ''White Epilepsy''<ref>{{Cite web |title=White Epilepsy |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/122197.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>'', Meurtrière''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meurtrière |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/139588.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>'', Unrest''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Unrest |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/139589.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref> ''and L'Arrière-saison''<ref>{{Cite web |title=L'Arrière-saison |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/139587.html |website=Cinémathèque française}}</ref>''.''
2023: «Rétrospective Philippe Grandrieux» La Filmothèque du quartier latin, Paris
== Scripts == 1998 ''Sombre'' / Written in collaboration with Pierre Hogdson et Sophie Fillière
1999 ''Karain'' / Adaptation of ''Karain, The Tales of Unrest'' by Joseph Conrad
2002 ''A New Life'' (''La Vie nouvelle)'' / Written in collaboration with Éric Vuillard
2008 ''A Lake'' (''Un Lac)''
2010 ''The Killing Room'' / Written in collaboration with Geoff Cox<ref>{{Cite web |title=Geoff Cox |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3563262/ |website=IMDB}}</ref>
2012 ''Beyond The Night'' (''Malgré la nuit)'' / Written in collaboration with Bertrand Schefer, Rebeca Zlotowski et John-Henry Butterworth
2022 ''Marcus'' / Written in collaboration with Jonathan Littell
== Bibliography == '''Texts about Philippe Grandrieux''' (extracts)
''Le cinéma de Philippe Grandrieux : un dispositif de transe?'' Milena Escobar, thèse de doctorat Aix-Marseille Université, 2022
''Philippe Grandrieux, Sonic Cinema'', by Greg Hainge,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philippe Grandrieux by Greg Hainge |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338403861 |website=Search Gate}}</ref> Bloomsbury Publishing,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philippe Grandrieux Sonic Cinema |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philippe-grandrieux-9781628923155/ |website=Bloomsbury Ed.}}</ref> 2016, 300p.
''Rêverie d’un filmeur solitaire'' par Serge Kaganski, Les Inrockuptibles n°1075, 2016
''État des corps Malgré la nuit'', Raymond Bellour, Trafic n° 98, P.O.L, 2016
''Grandrieux dans le flou des corps'' by Guillaume de Sardes, ed. Prussian Blue # 4, p. 52 -57, 2013
''Philippe Grandrieux de la pulsion à la grâce'' by John Jefferson Selve, Possession Immédiate, # 2, p. 62 - 83, 2015
Cinema and Agamben: ''Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image'', Henrik Gustafsson and Asbjoorn Gronstad - Engaging Hand to Hand with the Moving Image: Serra, Viola and Grandrieux's Radical Gestures, ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: ''Rethinking Subjectivity beyond French Cinema'', Jenny Chamarette. ''Threatened Corporealities: Thinking the Films of Philippe Grandrieux'', ed. Palgrave Macmillian, 2012
''Le Futur antérieur'', Raymond Bellour, Trafic, n° 70, P.O.L, 2009
''Le Corps concrêt'', Greg Hainge : «Of Bodily and Filmic Material Excess in Philippe Grandrieux’s Cinema.», ed. Monash University, Melbourne, 2008
''Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression,'' Martine Beugnet, ed. Edinburgh University, 2007
''L’Au-delà des images'', Christa Blümlinger, Parachute n° 123, Montreal, 2006
''La Vie nouvelle/nouvelle Vision, à propos d’un film de Philippe Grandrieux'',<ref>{{Cite news |title=La Vie nouvelle / Nouvelle vision directed by Nicole Brenez |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2005/05/12/la-vie-nouvelle-nouvelle-vision-dirige-par-nicole-brenez_648751_3260.html |website=Le Monde des livres|date=12 May 2005 }}</ref> sous la direction de Nicole Brenez. With texts by: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Raymond Bellour, Nicole Brenez, Sothean Nhieim, Fabien Gaffez, Serge Kaganski Augustin Gimel, Lionel Soukaz, Adrian Martin, Vincent Amiel, Peter Tscherkassky... This publication includes a DVD of the film ''La Vie nouvelle (A New Life)'', Éditions Leo Scheer, Paris, 2005
''Holly Terror: Philippe Grandrieux «Sombre»,'' Adrian Martin, ed. Senses Of Cinema, 1999
''Pour Sombre'', Raymond Bellour, Trafic, n° 28, P.O.L, 1998
== Publications == '''Texts by Philippe Grandrieux''' (extracts)
Two drawings and one text for ''Médéa'' by Stephan Crasneanscki, [https://www.libraryman.se Libraryman Editions], 2024
''En vrac,'' Mettray, ed. Didier Morin, 2022
''Troubles,'' Mettray, ed. Didier Morin, 2021
''Au bord d’un lac : Qu’est-ce que le réel ? Des cinéastes prennent position,'' dir. Andréa Picard, ed. Post-éditions - Cinéma du réel, 2018
''Journal de tournage, Malgré la nuit'' (1ère partie), Trafic, n° 98, ed. P.O.L, été 2016
''Journal de tournage, Malgré la nuit'' (2èrme partie), Mettray, ed. Didier Morin, 2016
''Philippe Grandrieux à propos d’Ariane Labed'', [https://www.possession-immediate.com Possession Immédiate], # 3, p 62. 2015
''La Première image'', un texte écrit à l’occasion de la parution du n° 700 des Cahiers du cinéma, 2014
''Congo'', Trafic n° 83, P.O.L, automne 2012
''Les Morts'', Trafic n° 84, P.O.L, hiver 2012
''À quoi bon une image'', Le cinéma critique, de l’argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l’objection visuelle : Sorbonne Université Presses, 2010
''Sous le ciel de Dwoskin'', Trafic n° 76, ed. P.O.L, hiver 2010
''Bad Lieutnant'' d’Abel Ferrara, a text by Philippe Grandrieux, commissioned by Nicole Brenez for the booklet of the DVD edition of ''Bad Lieutnant'', 2005
''Correspondance sur La Vie nouvelle'', Philippe Grandrieux et Éric Vuillard, Trafic n° 44, P.O.L, hiver 2002
''L’Emprise'', Trafic n° 38, ed. P.O.L., été 2001
''Sur l’horizon insensé du cinéma'', Cahiers du cinéma, hors-série, novembre 2000
''Incendie'', Trafic n° 16, ed. P.O.L., autome 1995
''One Summer'', Livraison n°4 Open Landscapes – Closed rooms, 2009–2010, p. 174, 175, 186
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0334930}} * philippegrandrieux > Instagram
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