Laurent Roth
Still: Amos Gitaï, la violence et l’histoireLaurent ROTH (1961, France) is a writer, filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He studied literature and philosophy at Lycée Henri-IV, and during his military service he studied film at l’Établissement cinématographique et photographique des Armées. In 1984, he made his first short film on 16mm, Marie ou le retour. Two years later, he made his first hybrid documentary Les yeux brûlés, which was selected in the Cannes Classics selection in 2015. Roth would continue to explore the borders between documentary and fiction in his later work. He has also written a trilogy for the theatre and has published articles as a critic in Cahiers du cinéma.
Filmography
Marie ou le retour (1984, short), Henri Alekan, des lumières et des hommes (1985, short), Les yeux brûlés (1986), Modèle depuis toujours (1988, short), L’impromptu de Jacques Copeau (1993, short), Une maison de famille (2004, short), J’ai quitté l’Aquitaine (2005), Ranger les photos (2009, short), Ecoute, Israël (2014, short), La joie (2015, short), Raoul Coutard, j’ai pas une tête de mort (2017, short), Pierre Schoendoerffer, la peine des hommes (2017), L’emmuré de Paris (2019), Amos Gitaï, la violence et l’histoire (2021, doc)
Laurent Roth at IFFR
Pierre Schoendoerffer, la peine des hommes
The unedited audio of an interview with Schoendoerffer meets the filming session’s few remaining images – slowed down. An essay on cinema and ruins.
58'
France
IFFR 2019
Amos Gitaï, la violence et l’histoire
A forceful portrait of architect-filmmaker-artist Amos Gitaï, focusing on two clusters in his oeuvre. Lucid and enlightening.
76'
France
IFFR 2021