MICHEL AMATHIEU

MICHEL AMATHIEU AFC

Born: 28 November 1955, Crèvecoeur-en-Auge, Basse-Normandie, France.

Career: Ph commercials dir by Douglas Law, Jan Kounen [for Smirnoff], Hans van Rijs [for Tele2], Pierre Coffin [for Milka], Diane Bertrand [for Crédit Agricole], Jesse Peretz [for McDonald's], a.o.

Ph music videos dir by Anne Paris, Philippe Découfflé, Emir Kusturica ['Unza, Unza Time!', 2005/b&w], François Hanss ['Je te dis tout' (2013); a: Mylène Farmer], a.o.

In 2000, he ph 35mm footage for an installation by Philippe Parreno.

Lighting des for 'Le temps des Gitans', a punk opera by Emir Kusturica in Opéra Bastille, Paris, June 2007.

Directed commercials for Renault & Citroën.

Awards: DVD Premiere Award nom [2003; shared] for 'Highway'; 'Emmy' Award nom [2008] for 'Into the Storm'.

Website: Michel Amathieu

FILMS
1983	Argie [Jorge Blanco] 16mm/c; cph: Jeanne Lapoirie
1983	Full Speed [Marcel Malgorn] 16mm/c; short/17m
1984	Quartier sauvage [Jean-Michel Roux] 16mm/b&w; short/15m
1984	En plein coeur [Malika Yacine] c; short/4m
1987	La voix du désert [Jean-Michel Roux] c; short/12m
1988	123 plans sur la sculpture de Didier Vermeiren [Elsa Cayo] 16mm/c; doc/26m
1989	Rosel [Régine Abadia] 16mm/c; short/51m
1990	L'entraînement du champion avant la course [Bernard Favre] c
1990	25 décembre 58, 10h36 [Diane Bertrand] b&w-c; short/18m
1992	Trop près des Dieux [Jean-Michel Roux] c; short/25m
1992	Les bêtes [Régine Abadia] c; short/15m
1992	Cendre d'or [Jean-Philippe Écoffey] c; short/17m
1992	Paranoïa [Frédéric Forestier & Stéphane Gateau] c; short/11m
1992	Vibroboy [Jan Kounen] scope/c; short/28m
1992	Désiré [Albert Dupontel] c; short/16m
1993	Répétition [Patricia Bardon] c; short/16m
1993	La fleur des morts [Françoise Pasquini] c; short/8m
1993	Le p'tit bal [Philippe Decouflé] c; dance film/4m
1994	One Night of Hypocrisy [Nicolas Hourès & David Rudrauf] c; short/26m
1994	Quelque chose de différent/Something Different [Bruno Rolland] c; short/28m
*1994*	Autopsie d'un mirage [Régine Abadia] tvi/?
1994	La cité des enfants perdus/The City of Lost Children [Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet] tvi/c; addph; ph: Darius Khondji
1995	Mondo kino: Salinas [Thierry & Didier Poiraud] c; short/8m
1995	Un samedi sur la terre/A Saturday on Earth [Diane Bertrand] tvi/c
1996	Les mille merveilles de l'univers/The Thousand Wonders of the Universe [Jean-Michel Roux] c
1996	Dobermann [Jan Kounen] s35/b&w-c
1997	Le cousin [Alain Corneau] s35/c
1997	L.A. Without a Map/I Love L.A. [Mika Kaurismäki] p/c; addph (USA unit): Pia Tikka
1997	Abracadabra [Philippe Decouflé] b&w-c; exp dance film/15m; b&w ph; color ph: Jeanne Lapoirie

With dir Emir Kusturica [right]

1997	Chat noir, chat blanc/Crna macka, beli macor/Black Cat, White Cat [Emir Kusturica] c; addph (finished the prod); ph: Thierry Arbogast
1998	History Is Made at Night/Historiaa tehdään öisin/Spy Games [Ilkka Järvi-Laturi] tvi/c; 2uc: Stéphane Fontaine & Urmas Sepp
1999	Scénarios sur la drogue/Drugs! [ep (4m) 'Tube du jour' dir by Diane Bertrand] 24-part series of short films
1999	Highway [James Cox] s35/c; cph: Mauro Fiore
2000	Hijack Stories [Oliver Schmitz] c
2000	À travers le miroir [Mohamed Ulad-Mohand] c; short/28m; cph: Charlie Van Damme & Jean-Jacques Mréjen
2000	Super 8 Stories [Emir Kusturica] dv+s8+BetaSP+DigiBeta-to-35mm/b&w-c; mus doc/90m; cph: Pascal Caubère, E. Kusturica, Ratko Kusic, Petar Popovic, Raimond Goebel, a.o.
2000	Mademoiselle Butterfly [Julie Lopes-Curval] s16-35bu/c; short/15m
2001	Semana Santa [Pepe Danquart] b&w-c; cph: Ciro Cappellari
2001	La carpe/The Carp [Alanté Alfandari] s16-35bu/c; short/14m
2001	Les grands ensembles/The Housing Projects/Building [Pierre Huyghe] vv-to-HD/c; exp film/8m
2002	Zivot je cudo/La vie est un miracle!/Life Is a Miracle/Hungry Heart [Emir Kusturica] tvi/c; also 6-part tv-miniseries (2006)
2002	Samsara [Pan Nalin] Hawk Scope/c; addph; ph: Rali Ralchev & Christo Bakalov
2003	Un long dimanche de fiançailles/A Very Long Engagement [Jean-Pierre Jeunet] s35/c; co-2uc; ph: Bruno Delbonnel
2004	Les soeurs fâchées/Me and My Sister [Alexandra Leclère] c
2004	L'avion/Charly [Cédric Kahn] scope/c
2005	All the Invisible Children [seg (10m) 'Blue Gypsy' dir by Emir Kusturica] HD+35mm-to-35mm/c; 7 seg ; cph: Milorad Glusica
2005	L'homme de sa vie [Zabou Breitman] c
2005	Paris, je t'aime [seg 'Place des Fêtes' dir by Oliver Schmitz & transitions dir by Frédéric Auburtin & Emmanuel Benbihy] b&w-c; 18 seg
2006	Penelope [Mark Palansky] s35/c; addph: Tristan Haley
2006	Dix films pour en parler [seg (2m) dir by Zabou Breitman] c; 10 seg/32m; other ph: Julien Hirsch, Brigitte Barbier, a.o.
2007	Road, Movie [Dev Benegal] tvi/c; addph: Joginder Panda
2008	Je l'aimais [Zabou Breitman] c
2008	L'étrange Monsieur Trip [Elphin Delphes-Lopez] s35/c
2009	Lullaby for Pi [Benoît Philippon] s35/c
2010	No et moi/No and Me [Zabou Breitman] c
2010	Nicostratos le pélican [Olivier Horlait] c; 2uc: Yorgos Giannelis
*2010*	Cool Water/Pretty Cool [Emir Kusturica] pre-production; scheduled to start shooting in September, later November; status unknown

With Xavier Palud [foreground] - "À l'aveugle"

2011	À l'aveugle [Xavier Palud] scope/c
2012	11.6 [Philippe Godeau] RED Epic/p-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c
2013	Fastlife/Fast Life [Thomas N'Gijol] RED Epic/c
2013	Diplomatie/Diplomacy [Volker Schlöndorff] RED Epic (scope)-to-D-Cinema/b&w-c
2013	My Old Lady [Israel Horovitz] RED Epic-to-digital/c
2014	Season of Souls [Tony Baillargeat] pre-production
2016	Animal [Nayla Al Khaja] c; short/16m
2017	J'ai perdu Albert [Didier Van Cauwelaert] c

TELEVISION
1993	Le dernier tour [Thierry Chabert] tvm
1999	Premières neiges [Gaël Morel] tvm/63m
2005	Alice & Charlie [Stéphane Clavier] tvm
2007	Into the Storm/Churchill at War [Thaddeus O'Sullivan] tvm; addph: Nick Briggs; ph add shoot: Haris Zambarloukos; aph: Adam Dale; sequel to 'The Gathering Storm' (2001)
2014	Rosemary's Baby [Agnieszka Holland] 2-part tvm/HD (Sony F55); 2uc: Jacek Petrycki; for NBC-tv
2015	Braquo [6 ep dir by Xavier Palud] 32-part series/ts, 2009, 2011, 2014 & 2016; 4th season, 2016 (8 ep)
2016	Versailles [10 ep dir by Thomas Vincent (#11-14), Mike Barker (#15-17) & Louis Choquette (#18-20)] series, 2015-present; 2nd season, 2017 (10 ep)