Guy Fihman

Birth : , Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes, France

History

Filmmaker and researcher born in 1944 in Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes. Studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. Co-founded the Paris Films Coop in February 1974, then Cinédoc. He has been making films since 1969. In pursuing his investigation of the cinematography of colour and how colours are perceived, he has developed various cinematographic systems for viewing colours and for binocular vision: "cinéchromies" and "cinéglyphes". Since 1980, he has been exploring holographic cinema with Claudine Eizykman. Professor and Director of the Department for Film and Audiovisual Studies at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint-Denis). In 1978, he gained his doctorate with a thesis entitled Articulation en dispositifs de quelques configurations de désir (dispositif intermittent).

Movies

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
Self
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Trois couches suffisent
Trois couches suffisent
Director
Melba Film Coop
Melba Film Coop
Himself
Short documentary offering glimpses at the life and work of the coop.
Ultrarouge-lnfraviolet
Ultrarouge-lnfraviolet
Director
The movement in this film only consists of variations in color operating on a fixed image based on a Pissaro painting, Les Toits Rouges.
France-Soir
France-Soir
Director
Three months of a daily newspaper in one minute.
Tours de Tours
Tours de Tours
Director
Socialisme et Barbarie
Socialisme et Barbarie
Director
Maine Montparnasse
Maine Montparnasse
Director
A portion of a building, Maine Montparnasse, filmed from the 5th floor of a neighboring building according to architectural lines, is transformed by geometric movements more or less fast blurring our perception.
L'autre scène
L'autre scène
Director
In L'Autre Scène, the images and the sound material try to manifest the mechanism of an advertisement around the blade.