IEC
Born: 2 April 1961, Paris, France.
Education: École Nationale Louis Lumière, Paris [graduated in 1982].
Career: Got his first break as asst to doph Bruno Nuytten.
Ph commercials dir by Wong Kar-Wai [for Lacoste], Roman Coppola, Stephen Gaghan, Johan Renck [2010, 'House Keeping'; for Giorgio Armani], Mary Harron [for Giorgio Armani], a.o.
Awards: 'César' Award [1999] for 'Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train'; European Film Award nom [2001] for 'Intimacy'; 'César' Award nom [2001] for 'Les destinées sentimentales'; Le Prix Vulcain de l'Artiste Technicien from the CST [2004]; Independent Spirit Award [2004], 'Silver Condor' Award nom [2004] & BAFTA Film Award nom [2004] for 'The Motorcycle Diaries'; Cannes FF 'Technical Grand Prize' [2004] & 'César' Award nom [2005] for 'Clean'; 'César' Award nom [2006] for 'Gabrielle'; 'César' Award nom [2007] for 'Coeurs'; Lumière Award [2008] for 'Into the Wild'; 'César' Award nom [2009] for 'Un conte de Noël'; 'César' Award nom [2010] for 'Les herbes folles'.
FILMS | |
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1984 |
Chagrin d'amour [Guy Pinon] c; short/14m |
1984 |
Constance [Cristina Otero Roth] 16mm/b&w; short/30m |
1985 |
Le jeu des masques [Gilles Herpin] 16mm/c; short/22m |
1985 |
Éléphantes [Frédérique Gutman] 16mm/c; short/9m |
1985 |
L'entrée en piste [Marc Barbault] c; short/6m |
1986 |
Le retour de Jean-Maurice [Philippe Demontaut] c |
1986 |
L'iniziazione/Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan [Gianfranco Mingozzi] c; cph: Didier Maigret & Luigi Verga |
1987 |
La pension [Marc Cadieux & Lionel Kopp] c; short/30m; cph: Dominique Brenguier |
1987 |
Dado Buffon [Jorge Amat] 16mm/c; doc/26m |
1987 |
Le jeu de dames [Anne Moullahem] 16mm/c; short/18m |
1987 |
Le scorpion [Yves Lavandier] c; short/6m |
1987 |
Le portrait ovale [Dominique Dattola] 16mm/b&w; short/9m |
1987 |
Chair de poule [Jezabel Carpi] 16mm/b&w; short/5m |
1988 |
La mouette infernale [Mireille Antoine] c; short/7m |
1988 |
Mimo joue au golf [Eric Mahé] c; short/2m |
1988 |
L'écumeur des mers [Anne-Isabelle Estrada] 16mm/c; short/17m |
1988 |
Croix rouge [Jezabel Carpi] c; short/6m |
1988 |
Le porte-plume [Marie-Christine Perrodin] c; short/9m |
1988 |
Fahrenheit [Alain-Charles Beau] b&w; comm short/4m; for Parfums Christian Dior |
1989 |
La concierge est dans l'escalier [Marc Barbault] c; short/6m |
1989 |
Marie cherchait l'amour [Sylvie Meyer] c; short/15m |
1990 |
Coup de sang [Emilie Deleuze] c; short/12m |
1990 |
La vie des morts [Arnaud Desplechin] c; short/54m |
1991 |
Comédie d'un soir [Marianne Basler] c; short/12m |
1991 |
Albert souffre/Albert Suffers [Bruno Nuytten] c |
1991 |
La femme à abattre [Guy Pinon] c |
1992 |
Article 22 [Gilles Romera] c; short/13m |
1992 |
Les empreintes [Camille Guichard] b&w; doc/24m |
1993 |
Le nombril du monde [Ariel Zeitoun] c |
1993 |
Personne ne m'aime/Nobody Loves Me [Marion Vernoux] c |
1993 |
Le fils préféré/The Favorite Son [Nicole Garcia] c |
1994 |
À Clara [Diane Pierens] c; short/12m |
1994 |
Les cent et une nuits (de Simon Cinéma)/One Hundred and One Nights [Agnès Varda] c; doc/101m |
1994 |
Comment je me suis disputé... (Ma vie sexuelle)/My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument [Arnaud Desplechin] c |
1995 |
Irma Vep [Olivier Assayas] c |
1995 |
Love, etc. [Marion Vernoux] c |
1995 |
Tykho Moon [Enki Bilal] c |
1997 |
Sans titre [Leos Carax] b&w-c; short/9m; cph: Jean-Charles Cameau, Stéphane Fontaine, Sophie Lemaire, a.o.; for the 50th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival |
1997 |
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train/Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train [Patrice Chéreau] p/c |
1997 |
Pola X [Leos Carax] s16-35bu/b&w-c; 134m; also 3-part tv-miniseries (2002) 'Pierre ou, les ambiguïtés': 'À la lumière' (59m), 'À l'ombre des lumières' (55m) & 'Dans le sang' (54m) |
1998 |
Passionnément/Passionately/Le soleil de plus près [Bruno Nuytten] c |
1999 |
Les destinées sentimentales [Olivier Assayas] Kowa Scope+tvi-to-35mm scope/c |
1999 |
Esther Kahn [Arnaud Desplechin] c |
2000 |
Intimacy/Intimité [Patrice Chéreau] s35/c |
2000 |
Les âmes fortes/Savage Souls [Raúl Ruiz] p/c |
2001 |
Brève traversée/Brief Crossing [Catherine Breillat] c |
2001 |
Une femme de ménage/A Housekeeper [Claude Berri] s35/c |
2002 |
Son frère/His Brother [Patrice Chéreau] c |
2002 |
Rois et reine/Kings and Queens [Arnaud Desplechin] s35/c |
2002 |
Diarios de motocicleta/The Motorcycle Diaries/Carnets de voyage [Walter Salles] s16+35mm-to-35mm/c |
2002 |
Les coquilles [Nathalie Boutefeu] c; short/36m; cph: Pascal Lagriffoul & Chicca Ungaro |
2003 |
Vulnerable [Jean-Marc Barr] unrealized |
2003 |
Clean [Olivier Assayas] s35/c |
2004 |
Gabrielle/Trois soirées [Patrice Chéreau] p/b&w-c |
2004 |
L'un reste, l'autre part [Claude Berri] s35/c |
2005 |
Paris, je t'aime [seg 'Quartier des Enfants Rouges' dir by Olivier Assayas & 'Loin du 16ème' dir by Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas] c; 18 seg; filmed 2002-05; also shown digitally |
2005 |
Noise [Olivier Assayas] c; mus doc/115m; cph: Olivier Torres, Michael Almereyda, a.o. |
2005 |
Coeurs/Private Fears in Public Places [Alain Resnais] p/c |
2005 |
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints [Dito Montiel] c; addph: Billy Dickson, Steve Huber & Andrij Parekh |
2005 |
Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier [Agnès Varda] c; doc/69m; 35mm ph; dv ph: A. Varda; also shown as an installation with a central screen (35mm) surrounded by 14 monitors (dv) |
2006 |
Into the Wild [Sean Penn] s35/c; aph: John Trapman; uwph: Peter Zuccarini |
2007 |
Un conte de Noël/A Christmas Tale [Arnaud Desplechin] s35/c |
2007 |
L'heure d'été/Summer Hours [Olivier Assayas] s35-to-35mm/c |
2008 |
Les herbes folles/Wild Grass [Alain Resnais] p/c |
2008 |
Taking Woodstock [Ang Lee] s35+s16+16mm-to-35mm/c; 2uc: Jon Delgado |
[Right] with dir Julian Schnabel [left] - "Miral"
2009 |
Miral [Julian Schnabel] ts (+ D-Cinema)/b&w-c |
2009 |
Les temps de venir [Olivier Assayas] announced; status unknown |
2010 |
Roses à crédit [Amos Gitai] c; also tv-version for France 2 |
"On the Road"
2010 |
On the Road [Walter Salles] ts (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Mauro Pinheiro Jr. & Pablo Baião |
2011 |
Vous n'avez encore rien vu [Alain Resnais] p (+ D-Cinema)/c |
2011 |
Après mai/Something in the Air [Olivier Assayas] s35-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/c |
2012 |
Le capital [Costa-Gavras] ts (+ D-Cinema)/c |
2012 |
Incident urbain [John Lalor] 35mm (+ digital)/c; short/24m |
2012 |
Grace of Monaco [Olivier Dahan] p (+ D-Cinema)/c; aph: Marc Ehrenbold |
2013 |
Aloha/Volcano Romance [Cameron Crowe] s35-to-D-Cinema/c; addph: Lawrence Sher; aph 2u: Michael Kelem |
2014 |
Hitchcock / Truffaut [Kent Jones] HD-to-digital/b&w-c; doc/79m; ph Paris, France; ph New York: Lisa Rinzler, Nick Bentgen & Daniel Cowen; ph Los Angeles: Mihai Malaimare Jr.; ph Tokyo: Genta Tamaki |
2015 |
Rabin, the Last Day [Amos Gitai] c; drama + archive |
2015 |
The Mercy [James Marsh] ts (+ D-Cinema)/c; addph: Simon Tindall; released in 2018 |
TELEVISION | |
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1993 |
Travolta et moi/Travolta and Me [Patricia Mazuy] tvm/b&w-c/52m/s16; ep #6 of 9-part series 'Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge...' |
1997 |
Cinéma de notre temps [ep (91m) 'HHH - Portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien' dir by Olivier Assayas] doc series |
2013 |
Believe [pilot dir by Alfonso Cuarón] 13-part (1 unaired) series, 2014; other ph: Gonzalo Amat & Christopher Norr |
2013 |
Tyrant [Ang Lee] pilot; A. Lee en E. Gautier pulled out of the pilot, which was dir by David Yates and ph by Chris Seager in 2014 |
FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR | |
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1982 |
La vie est un roman [Alain Resnais] c.asst; ph: Bruno Nuytten |
1985 |
Paris minuit [Frédéric Andréi] co-c.asst; ph: Bertrand Chatry |
1986 |
Le couteau sous la gorge/Knife Under the Throat [Claude Mulot] c.op; ph: Bruno Affret |
1989 |
Entreacte [Manuel Cussó-Ferrer] c.op; ph: Macari Golferichs |