Laurent Roth

Laurent Roth

Still: Amos Gitaï, la violence et l’histoire
Laurent 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)