Gérard Patris

Biography

Gérard Patris is a French film and television director born March 5, 1931 in Bouresse (Vienne) and died February 28, 1990 in Chailles (Loir-et-Cher) during a traffic accident. He was also responsible for a lithography workshop. After secondary studies in Poitiers, Gérard Patris enrolled in an art school in Paris. At the start of his professional career, he founded a lithography workshop in Paris. This job allowed him to meet many major post-war artists for the creation of prints such as Dubuffet, Pignon, Manessier, Sonderborg, Arman, Hayter, Hartung and Matta. Dado worked there for a while. Gérard Patris married several times, including his first marriage to Marie-Claire Schaeffer, daughter of the composer Pierre Schaeffer, often presented as the father of musique concrete. This meeting will allow him to participate, under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, in the ORTF research department in creation relating to Sound/Text/Image relationships. Gérard Patris, with Gilbert Delcros, director of the La Chesnaie clinic, is the founder of “La Chesnaie Films”, a television production unit whose workshops were based in the carriages of the Chailles clinic. His various encounters with artists from the world of music, painting and sculpture formed the basis of his film work.

Movies with Gérard Patris

• Autoportrait Dubuffet 1964
• Musique muette : Joan Miro 1983

Movies directed by Gérard Patris

• Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life 1969 · ★ 6.9
• A Propos D'Un Crime 1967 · ★ 10.0
• Autoportrait Dubuffet 1964
• The Great Rehearsals: Momente 1966
• The Flight of Icarus 1960
• Caustiques 1960
• The Great Rehearsals: When a Man Dedicates His Life to Music 1967
• The Great Rehearsals: Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum 1965
• The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse 1966
• The Great Rehearsals: Cecil Taylor in Paris 1968
• Autoportrait 1963
• Histoires naturelles : Max Ernst 1972
• Musique muette : Joan Miro 1983