Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

2006 Made in Jamaica (documentary; also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
2001 L’Instit (episode “Carnets de Voyage: Madagascar”;
also screenwriter)
LAPIED, ANNE (Anne Desmier / September 22,
1959, Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France–) and LAPIED,
ERIK (July 16, 1954, Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France)
They started out as self-taught photographers living
off of shows in multivision. In 1982, they bought
a secondhand camera and began directing their
documentaries. Other credit (as cinematographers,
sound engineers): 1996 La Louve d’Abyssinie (Jean-
Yves Collet).
Filmography
1983 Spitzberg, Île arctique (documentary; short)
Îles Lofoten (documentary; short)
1984 Laponie sauvage (documentary; short)
1988 Vanoise, Alpes en Liberté (documentary)
1989 Le Grand Retour (documentary; short)
1990 Lacs de Montagne (documentary; short)
1991 L’Île blanche (documentary; short)
1992 Alpes sauvages (documentary; short)
Tétras-Lyre (documentary; short)
1993 Le Couloir du Foin (documentary; short)
Piocheur de Gentiane (documentary; short)
Le Pré des Danses (documentary; short)
1994 Un Eté en Vanoise (documentary; short)
La Saison des Alpages (documentary; short)
1996 Les Seigneurs de l’Hiver (documentary; short)
Les Marmottes du Grand Rocher (documentary;
short)
La Nuit des Hyènes (documentary; short; codirector
with Jean-Yves Collet)
1997 Le Lac (documentary; short)
2000 Les Sentiers du petit Bonheur (documentary)
2001 Animal Roc (documentary)
Léon, Paysan de Savoie (documentary)
Le Marais aux Papillons (documentary; short)
A Fleur d’Eau (documentary; short)
2003 Trois Cents Jours dans la Montagne (documentary)
2004 Zanskar, le Chemin des Glaces (documentary)
2005 La Montagne aux Sept Bergers (documentary)
2006 Juste après la Neige (documentary)
2008 Dolma du Bout du Monde (documentary)
LARA, CHRISTIAN • 595
LAPOUJADE, ROBERT (Joseph Robert Lapoujade
/ January 3, 1921, Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne,
France–May 17, 1993, Saincy-sur-Bellot, Seine-et-
Marne, France)
The son of a baker and pastry cook, he had to
work after the death of his father. At age fourteen,
he earned his living as a butcher boy and a cook’s
assistant in a restaurant. He exhibited his fi rst paintings
in 1939 and became a renowned artist after
the end of World War II. He also wrote two essays
(1950 Le Mal à voir, Editions Le Messager boîteux
de Paris; 1955 Les Mécanismes de la Fascination, Editions
du Seuil), a novel (1970 L’Inadmissible, Editions
Nadeau), and a play (1977 De l’une à l’Autre ou La
Raie médiane) and published many articles in such
reviews as Les Temps modernes, L’Arc, Lettres nouvelles,
Preuves, Positif, and Pariscope. He was a directing animator
(1963 L’Annonciation, animated short, Philippe
Durand) and played in La Règle du Jeu (Françoise
Etchegaray, 1992).
Filmography
1959 Enquête sur un Corps (short; also producer)
1960 Foules (animated short; also producer)
Andréou (short)
1961 Noir et blanc (animated short)
1962 Chastel (short)
Prison (short; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
editor)
1963 Prassinos: L’Image et le Mouvement (short)
Vélodrame (short)
Trois Portraits d’un Oiseau qui n’existe pas
(animated short; also screenwriter, adapter,
cinematographer)
1964 Cataphote (animated short)
1965 Mise à nu (animated short)
Portraits parallèles: Jean Paulhan (documentary;
short; co-director with Yannick Bellon)
1967 L’Ombre de la Pomme (animated short; also
screenwriter)
1968 Le Socrate / USA: Socrates (also screenwriter)
1973 Le Sourire vertical
1975 Un Comédien sans Paradoxe (animated short;
also screenwriter, cinematographer)
1977– Les Mémoires de Don Quichotte (animation)
1981
LARA, CHRISTIAN (1939, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe,
France–)