Nicolas Rey
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1968
French filmmaker Nicolas Rey has directed a series of remarkable fictional documentaries, intricate feature-length (and sometimes longer) essay films that meld historical fact with fantasy and autobiography while implementing modernist literary strategies to unravel heady and playful ruminations on ideological and cinematographic technologies. Equally philosophical and structuralist-materialist, Rey's cinema uses lyrical, ludic and topographical forms of narrative to question the definition and limits of the State and cinematic illusionism. Rey's filmmaking is deeply informed by his active role as a member of the artist-run not-for-profit film laboratory, L'Abominable, one of the last bastions of photochemical artisanship in Western Europe. Employing exquisite hand-processing techniques, Rey uses photochemical grain and stain to give emotional texture and nuance to his painterly imagery which discovers moments of sublimity within seemingly quotidian scenes. — Haden Guest
Filmography
Differently, Molussia 2012
Director
Schuss! 2005
Director, Writer
Soviets Plus Electricity 2001
Director, Writer
Opera mundi ou le temps des survêtements 1999
Director
Terminus for you 1996
Director
Un début prometteur 2015
Writer
Burn the Sea 2014
Cinematography
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2011
as Himself (archive footage)
Pausa Italiana 2004
Cinematography
Hymne à la gazelle 2003
as Commentator
Cinexpérimentaux #2: Nicolas Rey 2001
Actor
Credits from TMDB.