Nicolas philibert biography
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Nicolas Philibert
« I never set out to become a documentary maker, in other words to settle once and for all within a given space. In fact, I hate that word: documentary maker.
Nicolas Philibert is a French film director and actor.
It helps to build up a border around a genre that has never ceased to evolve and whose porosity, variable lines and almost blood bond with the genre that is always opposed to it, fiction, is apparent to all. For it’s true that images are less faithful to “reality” than to the intentions of those who produce them.
But it just so happened that my first film was a documentary, that making it made me want to shoot another, then another, and so on until now. » (N.Philibert)
Nicolas Philibert was born in 1951 in Nancy (France).
After studying philosophy, he turned to film and became an assistant director, notably for René Allio y Alain Tanner.
In 1978, with Gérard Mordillat, he co-directed his first documentary feature, « His Master's Voice » (La voix de son maître, 1978) in which a dozen
