Patrick Duval

Películas

Revolution: New Art for a New World
Director of Photography
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.
Hockney
Cinematography
A documentary about the work and personality of artist David Hockney.
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister
Director of Photography
BBC memorial portrait of recently deceased Margaret Thatcher. With the help of never-before-seen archive material and interviews with colleagues and family, a portrait is painted of a politician who many have an opinion about and who has left a great impression, both in British politics and in the world.
Mrs Mandela
"B" Camera Operator
How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.
The Children
Additional Camera
Unas tranquilas vacaciones navideñas familiares se convertirán en una pesadilla cuando los niños empiecen a cambiar de actitud hacia sus padres y a desarrollar extrañas habilidades.
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
Cinematography
Forty years after Britain's foremost 'underground' band released their debut album, 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', Pink Floyd remain one of the biggest brand names and best-loved bands in the world. This film features extended archive footage alongside original interviews with David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, and traces the journey of a band that has only ever had five members, three of whom have lead the band at different stages of its evolution. BBC Program
Human, All Too Human
Camera Operator
European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.
Riot
Additional Camera
John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning point in Britain’s struggle towards multicultural democracy through interviews revealing the ghettoisation and racial abuse in Toxteth that escalated with stop-and-search policing tactics following the “sus” laws.
Piccadilly Circus by Night
Director of Photography
European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend, Tanya draws closer to her employer's husband. The sights and sounds of the Capital at Christmas form a deceptively romantic backdrop, for this brief meditation on loneliness and love.
Seventeen
Cinematography
Short drama about a seventeen year-old girl, the lifeguard she fancies, and her older sister who he fancies.
Voces Distantes
Cinematography
Oyendo o interpretando una de las muchas canciones que han formado parte de sus vidas, Maisie, Eileen, Tony y la madre de los tres, recuerdan a su fallecido padre y esposo, alcohólico, déspota y maltratador y cómo la experiencia vivida junto a él marcó sus destinos y sus sentimientos hacia los demás.
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
Director of Photography
A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.
Cinématon XIX
N°189
Reel 19 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Shine So Hard
Cinematography
'Shine So Hard' is a rare Echo and the Bunnymen promotional concert film, taking place during their 1981 'Camo Tour'.
Eugene Atget: Photographer
Cinematography
Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists. This meditative Arts Council documentary introduces Eugène Atget, a former actor who began to document the streets of old Paris from the 1890s. Little is known about his early life and the three decades he spent capturing, in eerie tableaux, urban spaces since lost to progress. The film includes dramatised scenes from his life, including his belated ‘discovery’ by American photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, who published many of Atget’s works after his death in 1927.
At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)
Director of Photography
A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.