François Gauducheau (born on May 3rd, 1947 with Nantes) is an Author - Réalisateur which has been devoted for 35 years to the Documentary film
Catalog of films
Last documentary 1990-2007
Othello, the part of Shakespeare is exploited the site of the shipyards of Nantes which have just closed. The film puts in parallel this drama with that of the workmen of the laid off building sites of their company without including/understanding why…
1st price of the Festival of Douarnenez and Prix of the public
Video design according to a choreography of
Claude Brumachon " The Palate of Vents" with the dancers of the National Choreographic Center of Nantes.
Invited by Rene Martin, the inventor of
the Insane Day, four large French pianists, Michel Béroff, Jean-François Heisser, Brigitte Engerer and Alain Planès, leave in group for a round to Brazil where they will play the repertory of the French music for piano. Rather accustomed to the concerts as soloists, they enjoy this voyage which enables them to share between friends their passion of the music. With Brazil for decoration…
Evocation of the triangular disaster
Trade at the 18th century between Nantes port slave trader, beaches of Benign in Africa and plantations of Haiti. On images of these three places, formerly so close, resound of the texts of the 18th century: newspapers of the slave-ship captains, orders of the ship-owners and accounts of the managers of sugar plantations.
Olympic Games, international competitions are the goals to reach for the French hopes. The teenagers who practice a sport with high level are subjected to an intensive drive within a system which condition them. How are the personality and the future of these young people in this environment constituted? The film follows over one school year the course of Helmi, swimmer who aims at the qualification for the Championships of France, and Sebastien, World champion junior of oar which must this year pass its vat…
Simone Lemoigne born in Trégornan in the Coasts D' Armor in 1911, started to paint the day when it took its retirement close to Nantes. Without to have never learned anything, it painted in twenty years more than 1200 fabrics which tell its childhood of small country-woman of the center of Brittany. Several of its fabrics are exposed in the museums of Na5ive art of Paris, Nice, Dusseldorf and London.
This film recalls the destiny of South-African the
Dulcie September, mongrel of the Cape, militant in a bunch studying gauchist, stopped in the Sixties at the same time as
Nelson Mandela, imprisoned then exiled. Representing the ANC in France, she was assassinated by Apartheid in Paris on March 29th, 1988 without its assassins being never found. Inquire between Paris, Johannesbourg and the Cape where we meet Nelson Mandela.
Ten seven dancers are chosen by the contemporary choreographer
Claude Brumachon to take part in creation over several months of an important part: " Central" hotel;. History of a door - closed which joins together and opposes choreographer and interpreters. Creation is an initiatory voyage in turn exciting and painful, that each one lives according to its dreams and of its desires. The film finishes at the time when the dancers enter in scene at the time of the First of the part.
The ethnologist and resistant German Tillion, 92 years, has just found in his files of the stereotypes taken in the Solid mass of Aurès, in Algeria, where she carried out her first missions in the years 30.Ces photographs testify to a disappeared world, but especially they clarify the life, the thought and the personality of this woman who was one of the large witnesses of the 20th century.
Is perpetuity, twenty years, thirty years, useful for the company and the prisoners?
Portrait of a man condemned to very a longsuffering which tries not to die internally…
Turning in immersion during five weeks, in the daily newspaper of the Central house of Ensisheim in Alsace.
Take care and Christmas Day for the 320 prisoners condemned to longsufferings and the 120 guards and members of the personnel of the Power station of Ensisheim. These days, more than the others, the sorrow is hard to support and environment is heavy in prison…
At the time of a theatrical creation whose actors are teenagers of a city in periphery of Mans, the district of Fine sands, the film proposes a voyage between the scene, the city, the theater and the city. Portraits of young people in difficulty, but also of their parents (almost always their mothers) often exceeded by the hardness of their own life. An account where reality and fiction mix narrowly.
Strange workshop around a work of recently found modern music. She was written in 1944 in the camp of
Terezín by the Jewish type-setter Autrichien
Viktor Ullmann gauze in Auschwitz a few months later. A group of friends, pianist, singer, director, historian, work this work for piano and reciting and evoke the so particular history of the creation of this part.
Selection SACEM - Festival of Radio France Montpellier 2005 - Festival of the Small rock Festival - " Traditional in images " Museum of Louvre 2006.
In the month of December 2004, for the first time, a local television channel emits in Nantes.
This microwave channel was allotted time-sharing to two operators, one private, pertaining to a great press group (
Nantes 7), the other associative one, financed by the local government agencies (
TéléNantes). For which programs, for which, how? Which are the stakes which are profiled behind this so particular local chain? Chronicle over a few months of the birth of this not very ordinary local television…
In June 2005, a score of children of a northern elementary school of the districts of Nantes gave a spectacle of contemporary dance on which they had worked for one year with the choreographer
Claude Brumachon and dancers of the National Choreographic Center of Nantes. The weeks which preceded the spectacle were intense in work and emotion. It is the period chosen by the realizer to follow these children to the scene and the city, in their work of discovered contemporary dance but also in their daily life, at the school and the house.
This documentary tells this human adventure and artistic, with its progression towards the spectacle, its moments of enthusiasm, of discoveries, but also of difficulties and doubts…
If the adoption is a very mediatized topic, the abandonment on the other hand, remains taboo. However, without abandonment, not of adoption… it is what the realiator discovers when it meets Sophie Marinopoulos at the hospital of Nantes. This film proposes to stop on the particular history of a woman, Francoise, who separated from her child to the birth. The goal is not to condemn nor to be moved cheaply, but to discover and to better include/understand through this account why and how certain children are given up and what hides behind these acts.
At the time of a forthcoming voyage in China in the town of
Qingdao, the realizer meets two Chinese students living in Nantes which entrust a message for their families to him. Arrived to China, it thus will meet the parents and friends of the two students and will make them view these messages; then it will record a message in return…
In 2005 and 2006, in six months of interval, the French suburbs blaze up and the colleges and the universities are blocked. In both cases, with different forms, they are the young people who express their anguish vis-a-vis their future in a world which is built without them… and which affirm their dignity of human beings. The film follows several last year secondary school students of a college of suburbs of Mars in June 2006, at the time of the events related to the refusal of the CPE then at the time of the " Days of Bac".
External bonds
The site of François Gauducheau: http://www.francoisgauducheau.fr
