About

Known credits:
12
Birthday:
1968-01-01
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Nicolas Rey

Overview

French filmmaker Nicolas Rey has directed a series of remarkable fictional documentaries, intricate feature-length (and sometimes longer) essay films that meld historical fact with fantasy and autobiography while implementing modernist literary strategies to unravel heady and playful ruminations on ideological and cinematographic technologies. Equally philosophical and structuralist-materialist, Rey's cinema uses lyrical, ludic and topographical forms of narrative to question the definition and limits of the State and cinematic illusionism. Rey's filmmaking is deeply informed by his active role as a member of the artist-run not-for-profit film laboratory, L'Abominable, one of the last bastions of photochemical artisanship in Western Europe. Employing exquisite hand-processing techniques, Rey uses photochemical grain and stain to give emotional texture and nuance to his painterly imagery which discovers moments of sublimity within seemingly quotidian scenes. — Haden Guest

Known for

Acting
2003 Hymne à la gazelle Actor Commentator N/A
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2001 Cinexpérimentaux #2: Nicolas Rey Actor N/A
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Directing
2019 Nivis: Amigos de otro mundo Directing Director 69
Fair
2012 Differently, Molussia Directing Director 58
Average
2005 Schuss! Directing Director 59
Average
2001 Soviets Plus Electricity Directing Director 59
Average
1999 Opera mundi ou le temps des survêtements Directing Director N/A
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1996 Terminus for you Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2015 Un début prometteur Writing Writer 57
Average
2005 Schuss! Writing Writer 59
Average
2001 Soviets Plus Electricity Writing Writer 59
Average

Crew
2014 Burn the Sea Crew Cinematography 59
Average