Biography


Françoise Romand

 
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I.D.H.E.C.
The French national film school which became Femis

1977
"Intersections" (documentary-fiction) 21'
with Christian Baltauss, Anny Romand, Pierre Santini, Françoise Romand

1985
"Mix-up ou Meli-Melo"
(documentary-fiction) 63' on sale at Lowave
Extras Bonus en ligne / BD Mix-Up / ITW Rosenbaum
Music Nicolas Frize. Production A2 / Ministery of Culture
On screen : New-York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris
Favorite 1988 film - choice of Jonathan Rosenbaum "Chicago Reader" and one of his 15 best of the 80's
Main festivals 1986/1987:
New York (opening the New Directors New Films at the Modern Art Museum with Lincoln Center),
Los Angeles (AFI Film Festival), Toronto (Festival of Festivals), Montreal (Women Films Festival),
Mannheim, Edimbourg, Belfort (Young Cinema), Vancouver

1986
"Call Me Madame"
(documentary-fiction) 52' on sale at Alibi Productions
Music Nicolas Frize. Production TF1 / INA / Culture's Ministery
On screen : New-York, Los Angeles, San Francisco
Main festivals 1987/1988:
New York (Modern Art Museum et Lincoln Center, New Directors New Films), Los Angeles
(AFI Film Festival), San Francisco (Golden Gate Award), Chicago, Toronto (Festival of Festivals),
Vancouver, Munich, Edimbourg, Creteil (Festival Films de Femmes)

1987
Won the Villa Medicis Award Hors les murs in USA to develop a project with Tom Luddy for Zoetrope

1992
"Les miettes du purgatoire"
(documentary) 14'
Production VF for France 3 in serie "Strip-Tease"

1993
"Side-Slip"
(documentary) 12'
France 3 in serie "Aleas"

1994
"Past-Imperfect"
(feature/ thriller) 95'
Starring Féodor Atkine, Laurence Masliah, Anny Romand, Paulette Dubosc,
Pascal Ternisien, Thérèse Crémieux, Patty Hannock.
DP: Anne Khripounoff. Music: Nicolas Frize. Production AURAMAX/FR2

Venise (Critic's Week), Vancouver, Tubingen, Boston (Fine Arts Museum) 1996

1995
Retrospective:
three films at Film Center Art Institute (Museum Chicago)

1996
"Vice Vertu and Vice Versa"
(feature / comedy) 87'
starring Anne Jacquemin, Florence Thomassin, Marc Lavoine, Serge Dupire,
Pascal Ternisien, Patty Hannock, Yves Lambrecht, Patrick Rameau.
DP: Mario Barroso - Music: Bruno Coulais - Jem Productions/Canal+/FR3


1997
"L'enfant Hors-Taxes"
(short) 26’
Michel Serres for La Cinquième with Nozha Khouadra.
DP: Ariane Damain - Music: Nicolas Frize - Production Gaumont.


1999
"Cruise on the Nile"
(documentary-fiction) 8 x 26'
8 episods - FR3 Production AMIP

1999-2000
Teaching cinema at Harvard, USA


2000
"La règle du Je"
(short) 15’
Alibi Productions
Toronto (Festival of Festivals 2000), Boston (Festival Fine Arts Museum 2001)

"Agnes Varda's Feet" (short documentary) 5’
Toronto (Festival of Festivals 2000)

2001
Project 7 Families' Kitchen on Internet
www.ikitcheneye.com

2002
"La regle du je tu elle il"
(work in progress) 80’
Alibi Productions
Rotterdam 2002

"Iconoclash" (documentary) 26’
Alibi Productions
Free inspiration from Bruno Latour's exhibit with Christian Boltanski
at ZKM, Karlsruhe - DVD available

2003
"Si toi aussi tu m’abandonnes"
(documentary) 52’
Image et Compagnie / FR3 Trial : Diffusion on France 3 a production version
Les Cahiers du Cinéma 2007 June

2004
"Sabine, Wife of... "
(short) 13’
Alibi Productions

2004
"Theme Je (The Camera I)" (Narrative essay) 75'
Alibi Productions with a grant from SCAM "Sketch from a dream"

in competition Women Films Festival Creteil
Toronto Festival of Festivals, New York Video Festival Lincoln Center
Nominated
at Jeonju International Film Festival 2005 Seoul (Korea)
European Biennial of Contemporary Art Nimes 2006 (Tabou or no Tabou)

2005
www.themeje.org


2007-2008
Ciné-Romand (happening)
A performance in private flats around Françoise Romand's films with her neighbourgh's
complicity in her place, in theirs, between fiction and reality...

2008
"22 ans plus tard... / Onboard"
(documentary) 21'
Bonus in French and in English on the DVD Appelez-moi Madame

2009
"Ciné-Romand"
(documentary-fiction) 1h30
Shot during the happening in La Bellevoilloise within the neighborough.
Shown in a selection by Les Cahiers du Cinéma in Centre Pompidou in Paris


"Réflexions désobligeantes / Cutting Reflections"
(short, comedy) 7'
Bonus on the DVD Ciné-Romand (English subtitles as in all DVD)



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