Discover Guy Brunet, a successful film director

Hollywood, Cinchetta, Bollywood… and Aveyron. Live exactly. In this village of twelve hundred people, one of the world’s most prolific directors has long worked: Guy Brunet, now 78 years old. More than one film director, producer, actor, poster designer, set designer, casting director, cinematographer… all without money, without a network, without anything.

Let’s start from the beginning. Guy Brunet was born in [1945sonofanelectricianwhobecameanexhibitorandmoviedirectorwhosellsicecreamtohisbrotherinthefamilyroomsandwhosemotherrunstheticketofficeHedevelopsapassionfortheseventhartbeginstodrawandwriteandinsertshimselfintofantasymoviepostersplacinghimselfalongsideJohnWayneO’GinkellyAsanadulthewritesscreenplaysoneabouttheFrenchRevolutionanotheraboutNapoleonontheislandofElba[1945،ابنكهربائي،الذيأصبحعارضًاومديرًاللسينمايبيعشقيقهالآيسكريمفيغرفالعائلة،وتديروالدتهمكتبالتذاكرطورشغفهبالفنالسابع،وبدأفيالرسموالكتابة،وأدخلنفسهفيملصقاتالأفلامالخيالية،واضعًانفسهبجانبجونواينأوجينكيليعندماأصبحبالغًا،كتبسيناريوهات،واحدةعنالثورةالفرنسية،وأخرىعننابليونفيجزيرةإلبا

In the middle years In 1990, he moved to a workshop where he created a studio: Paravision, an abbreviation of “paradise” and “vision.” There, he created cardboard silhouettes of actors and actresses, movie stars he had loved since childhood, all of them 1.38 meters tall. He produced more than a thousand in total. The credits, the little puppet theatres, the cardboard actors, the paper costumes they wear to their liking, the Taj Mahal sets…

“A unique collection in the world.”

All forms of work “A unique collection of works in the world, intersecting with art and cinema, revealing a visual artist unparalleled in his way of creating his own world,” Explains Christophe Boulanger, curator of the solo exhibition dedicated to Guy Brunet, at the Lam-Lille Métropole Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art and Outsider Art, in Villeneuve d’Ascq (North). And to illustrate the connections between the artist’s works and prehistoric cinema, such as magic lanterns in the 18th century.^H a century.

Therefore, the museum displays a “filmography” of what experts compare to raw art, which Jean Dubuffet defined as creativity emanating from people without artistic training or culture. But Guy Brunet had a culture of cinema, What he described as the “golden age.” Christophe Boulanger explains. Or the films that preceded the new wave. It’s Cecile B. DeMille, the over-the-top, often praised Hollywood film director.

In years In 1980, Guy Brunet developed a passion for VHS, editing the films he had recorded for television himself. He only likes happy endings and introduces a new montage The reward of fear Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953), with the final scene deleted, in which the truck driven by Yves Montand falls into the valley. He comments aloud on excerpts.

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