Vincent Blanchet
Vincent Blanchet | |
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 Vincent Blanchet | |
| Born | 16 April 1945 |
| Died | 13 March 2011 (aged 65) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Film director - Documentary film teacher - Microphone builder |
Vincent Blanchet (16 April 1945 – 13 March 2011) was a French
Biography
Vincent Evart Blanchet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine,[1] Paris, to Dutch-born artist Bernarda Vleming Blanchet and French poet Jean Auguste Blanchet.
From 1962 to 1967, Blanchet filmed a series of 16-mm amateur shorts in a Parisian Ciné-Club while attending the screenings of
While teaching cinema practice at
In 1978, through the teaching practices from Paris X Nanterre, he co-founded the international film school Ateliers Varan with Jean Rouch, J-P Beauviala, Jacques D'Arthuys, his brother Severin Blanchet, and a number of their students from Nanterre. Blanchet became one of the main founders of the school's particular filmmaking pedagogy, and his pedagogical principles are still put into action today.[2] He continued teaching at Ateliers Varan until his death.
In the mid-1980s, with the royalties from his latest fiction, he bought all the microphones on the market, took them apart to find out how they work - and why they don't work well enough. He developed a series of microphones, built on new principles, and used them in his own films, generally mounted directly on a small video camera. The sound is particularly transparent and the mikes produce an auditory "depth of field" that makes them particularly suited for one-person film crews. A number of filmmakers started using the microphones, among them, Richard Leacock.[3] He also developed a series of serial microphones for acoustic instruments, and made sound recordings for e.g. Randy Weston, Richard Leacock & Sarah Caldwell, Jean-Louis Aubert and Alain Roudier. The microphones were patented, but have never been put into industrial production.
Vincent Blanchet features in Les Favoris de la Lune (Otar Iosseliani, France / Italy, 1984), La Petite Minute de Bonheur (Laurence Attali, 1991) and Zuneigung—Die Filmemacherin Gisela Tuchtenhagen (Quinka F. Stoehr).
Selected filmography
Director & cinematographer
- 1962-1967: Short fiction films: Le brasseur, Trépidante et mystérieuse Afrique and Le petit déjeuner sur l'herbe
- 1969: De'Arua, 23 min., with Jean Monod. CNRS Images.
- 1973: Tabarin, performance video, with Daved Esrig, Théâtre National Chaillot
- 1974: La Draille, 60 min., with Jean Monod
- 1975: Histoire de Wahari,[4][5] 75 min., with Jean Monod. CNRS. Diffusion: Seine Cinéma. Award: Prix Georges Sadoul
- 1976: Wind water and sun, performance video with Carolyn Carlson, Paris Opera
- 1977: Geel, long version: 90 min., TV version: 3 x 52 min., with André Van In. Prod.: Aaton, INA, CBC. Diffusion : Cinéma St Séverin, RTF, RTB.[6][7]
- 1979: Les Lilas et tout, 60 min., with Séverin Blanchet.
- 1982: La casa del arbol, 20 min.
- 1983: Oublie les dix ans qui viennent, fiction, 90 min., broadcast: France 2.
- 1990: De l’arbre au violon – ou comment rester soi-même quand on fréquente Stradivarius, 52 min. Yumi Productions/ARTE.
- 1993: Ainsi va la terre, 58 min., with Perle Møhl. Prod.: Yumi Productions/ARTE. Award: Cinema du Réel.
- 1999: Le Château des Schÿler, 59 min. Arts Maillot Production/ARTE.
- 1999: Une femme d'influence, 42 min. Arts Maillot Production/ARTE.
- 1999: A l’ouest d’Allah aka Ici pour toujours, 58 min. Arts Maillot Production/ARTE.[8]
- 2006: Parole, l’héritage Dolto, 97 min. Yumi Productions/MK2.
- 2006: La liste noire du Commissaire, 52 min. Arts Maillot Production/France 5.
Cinematographer
- 1972: Les Eléments by J. C. Rosé.
- 1973: Le Corps blessé by J. C. Rosé.
- 1974: Et les chiens se taisent by S. Maldoror.
- 1975: Her sumana, by Amadou Sumana; La Vie au Ralenti, by J. C. Rosé; Judith à Fond de Train by E. Kapnist.
- 1988: La carrese by G. di Nella.
- 1991: Drôle de Nuit by E. Kapnist.
Sound engineer
- 1976: Chantons sous l'Occupation by André Halimi.
- 1992: Marrakech in the cool of the evening and The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco, CDs by Randy Weston, Verve/Polygram.
- 1996: A Musical Adventure in Siberia by Richard Leacock.
- 1997: Teko Dzembia, recording and masterisation of CD for the Amerindiens Emerillon/Teko, French Guiana. Distribution: Semeïon Editions.
- 2001: Musiques Cubaines, sound & image, musical film series for Anicinapé Productions. Diffusion: Mezzo.
- 2002: Taxi Parisien de Robert Bozzi.
- 2012: Confluences by Perle Møhl, mixing, Studios de la Vanne.
Actor
- 1984 Les Favoris de la lune by Otar Iosseliani
- 1991 La Petite Minute de bonheur by Laurence Attali
Film Scripts
- La Derive des continents with Jean-François Goyet
- Anaconda et Jaguar with Ti'iwan Couchili & Perle Møhl
External links
- Leacock, Richard: The Feelings of Being There - a Filmmaker's Memoir, Paris: Semeïon Editions, 2012.
- Filmdirector Lexicon
- Ateliers Varan
- La Petite Minute de Bonheur, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel.
References
- ^ Rège, P. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, vol. 1, Scarecrow Press, 2009.
- ^ "Un point de vue, des images du monde. A l'école des Ateliers Varan, ou comment filmer le réel sans esbroufe".
- ^ Leacock, Richard: The Feeling of Being There - a Filmmaker's Memoir, Paris: Semeïon Editions, 2012.
- ^ Luce Vigo: Entretien avec Vincent Blanchet, Image et Son - La Revue du Cinema n° 296, 1975, page 44-50.
- ^ Claire Clouzot: Vincent BLANCHET à propos de : Histoire de Wahari. Ecran n° 38, 1975, page 65ff.
- ^ Jacques Chevalier: A propos de Geel. Image et Son - La Revue du Cinema n° 349, page 37, 1980
- ^ Catherine Taconet: Geel. Cinema n° 256 page 104, 1980.
- ^ ARTE Magazine 31, 27 Juillet 2002, p. 18.
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