Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

746 • MORAZ, PATRICIA
1991 Walkie-Talkie (6 52')
Sortie interdite
1992 Le Trésor des Templiers (13 26'; France / Portugal
/ Hungary)
Counterstrike / Force de Frappe (episode “Trigger
Finger”; USA / Canada / France)
1993 Martineau . . . et le Portrait de Femme
1995 Les Grandes Personnes
1999 Titane
MORAZ, PATRICIA (Allegra Patricia Moraz / September
29, 1939, Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, France–)
Of Swiss origin, she taught in Algeria and in Switzerland
before earning a living as a fi lm journalist. She collaborated
as a screenwriter on several movies (1969
Vive la Mort, Francis Reusser, Switzerland; 1970 Black
Out, Jean-Louis Roy, Switzerland; 1991 Malina, Werner
Schroeter, French dialogist, Germany / Austria).
Filmography
1977 Les Indiens sont encore loin / UK: The Indians
Are Still Far Away (also screenwriter, dialogist;
Switzerland / France)
1980 Le Chemin perdu (also screenwriter, dialogist;
Switzerland / France / Belgium)
MORDACQ, PHILIPPE (1943, France–)
Filmography
1975 Blackout (unreleased)
MORDER, JOSEPH (October 5, 1949, Port-of-
Spain, Trinidad and Tobago–)
Of Polish descent, he went to Guayaquil, Ecuador,
in 1952 and spent his childhood in South America
(he defi nes himself as a “tropical Jew”). He settled in
France in 1962 (British born, he became a French citizen
in 1970). For his eighteenth birthday, he received
a silent Super-8 camera and began a fi lmed diary that
remains a work in progress. A prolifi c experimental
fi lmmaker, he shot almost 800 movies, according to
fi lm historian Raphaël Bassan. He also wrote a short
(1979 Shiva, also actor, Gérard Courant), occasionally
played in fi lms (1982 L’Escalier de la Haine, short,
Louis Skorecki; 1989 Les Aventures d’Eddie Turley, Gérard
Courant; 1994 Théâtre des Familles, short, Anne
Benhaïem; Omelette, scenes deleted, Rémi Lange; 1995
(Sic), short, Matthieu Poirot-Delpech; 2001 Saïd, short,
Romuald Beugnon; 2002 Les Filles personne ne s’en mé-
fi e, Charlotte Silvera), and appeared as himself in documentaries
(1978–1984 Cinématon, Gérard Courant;
2001 Le Journal de Joseph M., short, Gérard Courant;
2004 Aquí soy José, Fernando Mieles, Ecuador).
Filmography
1967– Journal fi lmé
2008
1969 Narcisse (short)
1971 Zéro et Quart (short)
Histoires de Morlocks (short; co-director with
The Morlocks)
L’Aventure de Walter Smith (short)
Projet pour un fi lm à Chambonredon (short;
co-director with The Morlocks)
Un Américain à Paris (short)
1972 La Fille du Canal (short)
L’Epicier (short; co-director with Jean-Claude
Réminiac)
Le Pique-Nique (short; co-director with Daniel
Belcberg)
1973 Avrum et Sipojra (short; also producer)
1976 La Chatte de Colette (short)
Un Film de Famille I (short)
1978 Le Chien amoureux (Journal fi lmé)
L’Eté madrilène (short)
Lucien Leuwen—Fragments (short)
Un Film de Famille II (short)
1979 Thé au Bois (short; co-director with Gérard
Courant, Jacques Haubois, Théo Hernandez;
also cinematographer, editor)
La Femme en vert (short)
Ma Mère est une Star (short; also screenwriter,
producer)
Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas: L’Eté (short;
also screenwriter, producer, cinematographer,
actor, sound editor and engineer, editor,
musician)
Le Mariage de Joseph (short)
1980 Certains tombent en Amour (Journal fi lmé)
(short)
Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas 2: L’Automne
(short)
1981 Anne Rochelle (short)
Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas 3: L’Hiver
(short)
Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas 4: Le Printemps
(short)
La Vie d’une Femme, un Mélodrame (mediumlength)