Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1964 Bassae (documentary; short)
1965 Paris vu par . . . / UK and USA: Six in Paris
(episode “Rue Saint-Denis”; also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; shot in 1963)
1966 Une Balle au Cœur / Mia sfaira stin kardia /
USA: Devil at My Heels (also screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Greece)
La Femme aux Cent Visages (short)
Le Horla (medium-length; also screenwriter,
adapter)
Les Morutiers (documentary; short; also coscreenwriter,
editor; co-director with Etienne
Lalou)
1969 Le Maître du Temps / O Homem das Estrelas
(France / Brazil; unreleased)
1971 L’Amour c’est gai, l’Amour c’est triste (also coscreenwriter;
shot in 1968)
Le Sang (also co-screenwriter; unreleased)
1974 L’Ordre (documentary; short; also cinematographer)
1976 L’Acrobate (also co-screenwriter)
Pascale et Maddy (short)
1981 Pour Mémoire (documentary; co-director with
Maurice Born; shot in 1978)
1986 Au Père Lachaise (documentary; short; codirector
with Pierre-Marie Goulet)
1990 Contretemps (also screenwriter, cinematographer;
shot in 1988)
Trois Jours en Grèce (documentary; also screenwriter,
actor as himself; unreleased)
1991 Contre Courant (short)
1994 Dieu sait quoi (documentary; also screenwriter,
adapter; France / Belgium; shot in 1992)
1998 Tu imagines Robinson (shot in 1967)
2001 Ceux d’en Face (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
shot in 1999)
Television Filmography
1966 Dim Dam Dom (documentary; episode “Les
Mariés de Robinson”)
1967 Dim Dam Dom (documentary; episode “Chez
Georges et Rosy”)
POLLET-VILLARD, PHILIPPE (October 30,
1960, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France–)
After dropping out of school to be trained as a
graphic artist at the Saint-Etienne and Lyon Beaux-
Arts schools, he began working in photography and
drawing and enrolled in an advertising agency at age
nineteen. He directed commercials and video clips and
occasionally played in fi lms and TV movies (1998 L’Interview,
short, Xavier Giannoli; 2000 Une Femme d’Extérieur,
Christophe Blanc; 2005 Nicole et Daniel, short,
David Fauche; 2006 Mentir un peu, TV, Agnès Obadia).
He authored a novel: 2006 L’Homme qui marchait avec
une Balle dans la Tête (Editions Flammarion).
Filmography
1997 Ma Place sur le Trottoir (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor)
2000 Jacqueline dans ma Vitrine (director with Marc
Adjadj; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
2004 La Baguette (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
2005 Vigiles (short; also screenwriter,dialogist, actor)
2006 Le Mozart des pickpockets (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor)
POOYARD, PATRICE
Filmography
2001 Qui veut devenir une Star?
PORTE, MICHELLE • 835
PORTE, GILLES (May 11, 1965, Lyon, Rhône,
France–)
The son of physician parents, he was trained at the
ESCA and the Louis Lumière fi lm school. He directed
shorts before working as a second assistant camera
operator, camera operator, and cinematographer
(more than fi fty shorts and feature fi lms since 1991).
Filmography
1987 Coup de Pompe (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1988 Histoire privée (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
Que le Spectacle soit (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1990 Conte à rebours (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1991 116 / 1 (short; also screenwriter)
1993 Petro (documentary; also screenwriter)
2004 Quand la Mer monte . . . / USA: When the Sea
Rises (co-director with Yolande Moreau; also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
PORTE, MICHELLE (Valence, Drôme, France–)
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics
and chemistry, she met Pierre Schaeffer, with