Nicolas Rey

Nicolas Rey

Born: January 1, 1968
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

Movies for Nicolas Rey...

Hymne à la gazelle
Title: Hymne à la gazelle
Character: Commentator
Released: November 26, 2003
Type: Movie
A César award nominated short feature about a lady who unwittingly seeks shelter in a bar where she attracts the unwelcome attentions of one of the customers.
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Cinexpérimentaux #2: Nicolas Rey
Title: Cinexpérimentaux #2: Nicolas Rey
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Portrait of experimental filmmaker Nicolas Rey.