Claire Simon

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Claire Simon is a French screenwriter, actress, cinematographer, editor, and director.

Early life and education

Simon was born in Britain and raised in southern France. She grew up in a family of writers and painters.^[1]

She took courses in anthropology and studied Arabic and Berber.^[2]

Career

Simon first worked in the film world when she did an internship to work as an editor at the Algiers Cinematheque.^[2]

In the 1980s, she started to make narrative shorts. She received a scholarship to attend a prestigious documentary workshop led by Jean Rouch, one of the founders of cinéma-vérité.^[1]

Distinctions

Selections

Three of her films have been selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs, an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival: Sinon oui in 1997, Ça brûle in 2006, and Les Bureaux de Dieu in 2008.^[3]

The film Gare du Nord and the associated Géographie humaine were selected at the Festival international du film francophone de Namur in October 2013. There Gare du Nord was presented in official competition.^[4]

In 2013, a retrospective was dedicated to Simonr at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The feature films Sinon, oui, Les Bureaux de Dieu, Ça brûle and Gare du Nord were shown.^[5] Another retrospective of her works was hosted by the 11th Play-Doc festival in Tui, Galicia.^[6]

Our Bodies was selected for the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.^[7]

Awards

She was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on January 16, 2014.^[8]

Political views

In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Simon signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Filmography

Director

Short films

1976: Madeleine
1980: Tandis que j’agonise
1981: Moi, non ou l'argent de Patricia
1982: Mon cher Simon
1983: Une journée de vacances
1984: Barres Barres
1988: La Police
1991: Scènes de ménage
1992: Artiste Peintre

Feature films

1997: A Foreign Body (Sinon, oui)
1999: That's Just Like You (Ça, c'est vraiment toi)
2006: On Fire (Ça brûle)
2008: God's Offices (Les Bureaux de Dieu)
2013: Gare du Nord
2021: I Want to Talk About Duras (Vous ne désirez que moi)

Documentaries

1989: Les Patients
1992: Récréations
1995: At All Costs (Coûte que coûte)
2000: 800 km de différence/Romance
2002: Mimi
2013: Human Geography (Géographie humaine)
2016: The Woods Dreams Are Made Of (Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits)
2016: The Competition (Le Concours)^[12]
2018: Young Solitude (Premières solitudes)
2020: The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World (Le Fils de l'épicière, le maire, le village et le monde)
2023: Our Body (Notre Corps)

Documentary series

2019: Le Village (20 episodes)

Screenwriter

Sinon, oui, 1997
Ça, c'est vraiment toi, (téléfilm) 1999
Ça brûle, 2006
Les Bureaux de Dieu, 2008

Director of photography

Récréations (MM), 1992
800 km de différence/Romance (DOC), 2000
Mimi (DOC), 2002
Les Bureaux de Dieu, 2008

Editor

1976: Chantons sous l'Occupation d'André Halimi
1979: La Ville à prendre by Patrick Brunie
1981: Plogoff, des pierres contre des fusils by Nicole Le Garrec
1982: Faux-fuyants by Alain Bergala and Jean-Pierre Limosin
1986: Gardien de la nuit by Jean-Pierre Limosin
2002: 800 km de différence - Romance by Claire Simon
2003: Mimi by Claire Simoin

References

^ ^a ^b Loayza, Beatrice (August 3, 2023). "A New Subject for a Veteran Documentary Maker: Herself" – via NYTimes.com.
^ ^a ^b "Claire Simon : "Un cinéma libre, curieux du monde entier"". France Culture. September 2, 2021.
^ "Fiche de Claire Simon sur le site de La Quinzaine des réalisateurs". Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
^ "FIFF - Gare du Nord". Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
^ "54th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: the Festival of Jim Jarmusch". filmiconjournal.com.
^ González, David (2015-04-22). "Play-Doc: Documentaries on the borderline". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
^ Rapold, Nicolas. "On the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival". www.artforum.com.
^ http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Nous-connaitre/Organisation/Conseil-de-l-Ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres/Arretes-de-Nominations-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres/Nomination-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres-janvier-2014
^ "Gaza : des cinéastes du monde entier demandent un cessez-le-feu immédiat". Libération (in French). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ Newman, Nick (29 December 2023). "Claire Denis, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Christian Petzold, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & More Sign Demand for Ceasefire in Gaza". The Film Stage. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ "Directors of cinema sign petition for immediate ceasefire". The Jerusalem Post. 31 December 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
^ "'The Competition' Review: Vying for a Slot in an Elite Film School (Published 2019)". 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2023-08-16.