Jean-Paul Dupuis

Jean-Paul Dupuis

History

Filmmaker and composer since 1969, Jean-Paul Dupuis has directed more than 50 films—auteur films and documentary films—and composed music for the image and the stage. A different and experimental filmmaker, he has directed nearly 16 short and feature films. These include "Au-delà des ombres" in 1973, "Arlequin des rues" in 1974 (special mention of the jury at the film festival different from Toulon, "Lithophonie" in 1977 (Grand Prize ex-aequo at the festival of Hyènes). Directed short films with dancers/choreographers (François Verret, Alexander Witzman-Anaya, Peter Morin). Since 1985, he has been producing documentary films and is dedicated to producing films on visual artists and sculptors (Lartangage with Thierry Lefèvre-Grave, Jorge Carrasco). As a director, he co-directed with Claude Brunel several documentaries (Ecouen, La Renaissance en son château; Le Val d’Yerres; La ville de Crosne et d’Yerres; Naissance de l’orgue de Crosne). Composer for documentary series for TV channels: FR3, 5th and Voyage (the "Discover the world" series designed and produced by Pierre Brouwers), he has also composed for dance: AWAnaya, Christine Gérard, Caroline Dudan, for the Theater: Théâtre des Ateliers in Lyon, Théâtre de la Tête Noire in Orleans (Variations on "Hiroshima mon amour" by Marguerite Duras). In 1991, he created a symphonic work "Hydroconcert" for soprano, strings, brass and magnetic tape directed by Alain Damiens of the intercontemporary ensemble.

Profile

Jean-Paul Dupuis

Movies

Les funérailles de Marcel Hanoun au Père-Lachaise à Paris
L'ivre d'auteurs
Director of Photography
L'ivre d'auteurs
Editor
L'ivre d'auteurs
Music
L'ivre d'auteurs
Director
Ex-Tension
Director
The body energy, contained, frees itself through the contrasting gaze's light, through the fragmented play music. Energy is concentrated in the gesture time and in the wait of the matter. Ex-Tension: Meeting of a body writing with the duality Image/Music.
Boucherie fine
Music
A butcher whose meat is most tender, surrounded successively by ephemeral and delightful cashiers.
K.N Ô
Director
Les Chants (I, II, III, IV, V)
Director
The first series of a film whose course is in parallel with the life of the author. Unlike a newspaper, however, any realistic, everyday element is excluded. Only one theme will carry through the whole work: the expectation of death, its presence at every moment of life, the inexorable advance of time which, hour after hour, day after day, season after season, marks every face, every body transforms every look, invests every place in its light, its forms, its colors, asserts itself in the face of what man believes eternal: the ebb and flow of the sea, the mass of rocks, their stone works.
The Vegetarians
Music
A simple meal of meticulously photographed ingredients with gruesome close-ups.
Gina Pellon
Director
Focalises
Cinematography
The film has been imagined in 1976 and realised in 1980. The idea was highlighting the depth of field throught the cinematic focus. The idea was also that in commercial movies the middle-distances are always blurred, sacrified, not seen, for the advantage of the focused foreground, tool of the narration.
Lied en ré mineur
Director
Dreams and Light
Director
Peter Morin' show, deliberately narrative, fantastical and symbolic, was calling for a cinematic transposition in which objects, actions, gestures, without losing anything from their power, would be used differently, liberated from real time, linearity, theatrical space. The use of cinematic language (i.e. numerous framings, dark and light opposition, camera motion, superimpositions, different rhythms at the editing) permitted this transposition.
L'Age du bois
Director
Transfiguration
Music
Carried by chamanics and cosmics vibrations music, this movie present us Aloual, the fetish actor, in a kind of naked and listless semi-captivity. Sustained by bandages, half floating in the airs, arrowed by glances, this St-Sebastian is the heart of a ritual who combine plastic beauty, Chrisitc's dolor and pagan's voluptuous pleasures.
The Bright Night
Music
In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages from "Orpheus," the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi, La Nuit Claire is an evocation of the celebrated myth, within which images of the love between its two modern protagonists, Anne and Julien, are inscribed. - BAM/PFA
Dansité
Director
Dansité is the visualization, in cinematic space and time, of two bodies in motion; mobile, immobile, intertwined, broken, tense, restrained, suspended between heaven and earth, sand and rock, they suddenly stop, fixing the eternity of the moment.
Lithophonie
Cinematography
Lithophonie
Sound
Lithophonie
Music
Lithophonie
Producer
Lithophonie
Director
L’oiseau cuvette
Director
Arlequin des rues
Director
Au-delà des ombres
Director
Désespérément
Director
Abs/tracks
Music
Maloya
Director
Souffle du vent
Director
Lignes en fleurs
Director
Cascade
Director
Chant IV
Director