Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

2005 Le Peintre, le Poète et l’Historien (documentary;
short)
2005– Vivre ensemble (documentary)
2007
2006 La Dernière Utopie (La Télévision selon Rossellini)
(documentary; also co-screenwriter)
2007 Reproduction, Reproduction (documentary;
shot in 2003–2007)
COMPAIN, FRÉDÉRIC (July 4, 1954, Rouen, Seine-
Maritime, France–)
He made his apprenticeship shooting shorts. Other
credits (as actor): 1980 Une Voix (short, Dominique
Crèvecoeur); 2004 Le Fantôme d’Henri Langlois /
USA: Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque
(documentary, as himself, Jacques Richard); (as cinematographer):
2003 Volvoreta (documentary, Alberto
Yaccelini, Argentina).
Filmography
1980 Du Crime considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts
(short; also screenwriter)
1987 Résidence surveillée (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
Television Filmography
1974 Techniques de l’Encerclement: Résistance (short;
segment “Alain Robbe-Grillet”; also screenwriter,
technical adviser)
1975 Les Discours du Maître (also screenwriter)
1976 L’Eden Palace (also screenwriter)
1978 La Grande Crue de 1910 (short; also screenwriter,
editor)
Notes pour une Enquête (short; also screenwriter,
editor)
1980 Jean Raine, Artiste peintre (documentary; short;
also screenwriter, editor)
1981 Télé-Test (short; segment “Anomalies”; also
screenwriter)
1982 Télévision de Chambre (episode “Hughie”; also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Buenos-Aires Allers-Retours (documentary fi ction;
also screenwriter)
1983 Le Mécène (short; also screenwriter)
1984 Raymond Depardon / Holger Trulsch / Gilbert Fastenaekens
(documentary; short; also screenwriter)
1985 Journal de Patagonie (documentary)
1988 Portrait de Jean-Manuel Fangio (documentary;
short)
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1989 Parana (documentary; also screenwriter, narrator)
1990 Projections (short; also co-screenwriter, cinematographer)
Monstre aimé
1991 Devenir (documentary; short; also screenwriter)
Le Chercheur de Plumes (documentary; short;
also screenwriter)
1992 Île de Pâques (documentary; short)
1993 Berau sur les Traces de Joseph Conrad (documentary;
short; also co-screenwriter, conarrator)
J’étais à Toulouse (documentary; also screenwriter)
Les Clés de la Ville (documentary)
1994 La Femme piégée
1995 Division Street, Chicago U.S.A.—En suivant Robert
Guinan (documentary)
Elvis Aziz
Saïd Taghmaoui, Portrait en Acteur (documentary;
short; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
editor)
1996 Le Long du Rhin (documentary; short)
Un Comte, deux Fées (documentary; short)
Voyage d’un Français de l’Intérieur (documentary;
also screenwriter, cinematographer, editor)
Les Enfants d’abord (documentary; short; segment
“Mother India”)
1997 Montoneros—Une Histoire argentine (documentary;
also interviewer, co-narrator)
1998 Delacroix: Mes Dernières Années (et quelques
Autres) (documentary; short; also co-screenwriter)
Un Siècle d’Ecrivains (segment “Alain Robbe-
Grillet”; also screenwriter, interviewer)
1999 La Bataille de la Pyramide (documentary; short;
also screenwriter, interviewer)
Voyages, Voyages (documentary; short; segment
“Java central”; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
sound engineer, narrator)
2000 Commis d’Offi ce: La Justice au Quotidien (documentary;
also cinematographer)
Architectures (documentary; short; segment
“Bauhaus (par Walter Gropius)”; also screenwriter)
Voyages, Voyages (documentary; short; segment
“En passant par l’Uruguay”; also cinematographer,
sound engineer, narrator)