Guy Fihman
Biography
Filmmaker and researcher born in 1944 in Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes. Studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. Co-founded the Paris Films Coop in February 1974, then Cinédoc. He has been making films since 1969. In pursuing his investigation of the cinematography of colour and how colours are perceived, he has developed various cinematographic systems for viewing colours and for binocular vision: "cinéchromies" and "cinéglyphes". Since 1980, he has been exploring holographic cinema with Claudine Eizykman. Professor and Director of the Department for Film and Audiovisual Studies at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint-Denis). In 1978, he gained his doctorate with a thesis entitled Articulation en dispositifs de quelques configurations de désir (dispositif intermittent).
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as Self
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Himself
Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique Willoughby, among others, were active participants, with 5 issues published between 1976 and 1979.