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).
Home Movies 1971-81
Birth of a Nation
Melba Film Coop
Claudine Eizykman
Valie Export
Jonas Mekas
Carolee Schneemann
John Whitney Sr.
Jack Smith
Peter Gidal
Takahiko Iimura
Stan VanDerBeek
Malcolm Le Grice
Ken Jacobs
Ed Emshwiller