Philippe Grandrieux

Tristan und Isolde (2023)

In the vision of Philippe Grandrieux, the director of Tristan und Isolde, the latter is the driving force behind the passionate drama of Tristan and herself. She is an erotomaniac who wants to possess and swallow him whole. Philippe Grandrieux's direction ...

Liminal (2020)

A FICUNAM commission for four directors, Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the film-makers explore this relationship through four distinct stories as to context and im ...

The Scream (2019)

An installation presented on 11 screens featuring nude human figures engaged in cathartic performance. ...

The Image You Missed (2018)

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never-seen-before footage, 'T ...

Despite the Night (2016)

After returning to Paris, a heartbroken man searching for his missing lover finds solace, and a passionate but troubled love, with a grieving nurse. This unconventional romance unfolds against a backdrop of music and defies expectations, venturing into unc ...

Meurtrière (2015)

In the second part of the trilogy on anxiety (in continuation of White Epilepsy), the only light source that reflects on the screen is the naked human body. Its surface, full of bones and muscles, flexes and vibrates in a frantic rhythm. The livelier the r ...

White Epilepsy (2012)

Where do images come from? This disturbing and essential question is posed by Philippe Grandrieux, and he already imposed it on himself the start, via Sombre (1999) up to the portrait recently devoted to Masao Adachi (FID 2011). From where, then? Maybe fro ...

It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (2011)

The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masao Adachi, who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of th ...

A Lake (2008)

The action unfolds in a country about which we know nothing, a land of snow and forests, somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, a young, pure-hearted man, is a woodcutter. Occasionally suffering from epileptic seiz ...

Late Season (2007)

Inspired by the dominant motif of the novel by the great Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, "L'Arrière-saison" is a diptych about roses. ...

Met (2006)

Grenoble (2006)

A New Life (2002)

A young American drifts through a decaying Eastern European city, where his fixation on an elusive woman pulls him deeper into an underworld fueled by possession. ...

Sombre (1998)

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down. ...

Back to Sarajevo (1996)

A week after the Dayton accords, Phillipe Grandrieux visits Sarajevo accompanied by Sada, a Bosnian who is returning home after four years of exile. ...

Balladur / Chirac-Kohl / Juppé (1996)

Portrait made for the magazine Brut. ...

Jogo do Bicho (1994)

Portrait of a popular game in Brazil ...

The Wheel (1993)

Gert Jan Theunisse (1993)

Brian Holm (1993)

Cafés (1992)

Les Équilibristes (1991)

Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on the Sept. It was on this occasion that Philippe Grandrieux directed this short film for the Seven antenna, c ...

The Black Hole (1989)

For a series of programs made for TV Fnac, Philippe Grandrieux meets different people who tell us, each in their own point of view, a story of images. After Paul Virilio (The World is an image) and before Jean-Louis Schaeffet, Le Trou noir (AKA The Black ...

Le Labyrinthe - le temps, la memoire, les images (1989)

Third part of an experimental television program led by Grandrieux questionning TV flux aesthetic, this film focuses on a single interview with Jean-Louis Schefer who delivers his hypothesis on man-made images of itself. ...

Berlin (1987)

The World is All What Happens (1987)

Berlin-Paris-Berlin (1987)

Treasure Island (1986)

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures. ...

Comédies-Comédiens (1986)

Long Courrier (1985)

Full Size (1984)

The Small Screens of Cairo (1983)

Extract from the program "Juste une image" produced by Thierry Garrel and directed by Philippe Grandrieux. ...

Full Moon (1983)

A Generation (1982)

A handheld video camera explores image-surfaces as a visual collective unconscious: a TV screen, Polaroids, photos. A conceptually and formally compelling film about the idea of change, the loss of a revolution, the defying memory of the 70s decade. ...

The Cubist Painting (1981)

Commissioned for the French television series Regards Entendus, La peinture cubiste is a multilayered, elusive investigation of the perception of reality and representation through cinema, painting and video. Unfolding as an evocative, implied fictional na ...

Back to Sarajevo (1996)

A week after the Dayton accords, Phillipe Grandrieux visits Sarajevo accompanied by Sada, a Bosnian who is returning home after four years of exile. ...