Gilles Charmant
* 1964 in Geneva.
Gilles Charmant read History at Warwick University. As an assistant director and production manager he worked for Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki, among others, and subsequently began making his own films. Today he works as an actor, author and director.
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153337/
FILMS directed by GILLES CHARMANT
La prévention de l'usure (A Piece of Sound Advice)
France 2009, 20 min, 35 mm
Director/Screenwriter: Gilles Charmant | Producer: Marie Dubas | Cinematographer: Pascale Marin | Sound: Benjamin Laurent, Alexandre Hecker | Music: Jean-François Hoël | Set design: Wouter Zoon | Editing: Julie Delord | Cast: Grégory Montel, Amandine Pudlo
The brightly coloured household appliances for which he provides the texts come complete with a user’s manual, love sadly doesn’t. With unforgiving fulfilment Pierre gives his girlfriend’s demanding fantasy as good as he gets. In the factory, supported by a ballet of workers, he singingly and dancingly eliminates initial doubts from the jazzy world of Musicals once and for all.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2010, Fiction and Documentary 1