Massot, Claude

(February 28, 1942, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France - February 24, 1995, Paris, France)

   Having graduated from the IDHEC, he could not find any jobs in movies and had to earn his living by work­ing in a printing house. His boss, a friend of the direc­tor of personnel at ORTF (French TV), helped him make his debut on TV as an assistant to Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe on Cinéastes de notre Temps (1966-1970). He collaborated on such prestigious TV progams as Dim Dam Dom and Cinq Colonnes à la Une and directed mostly documentaries. His only feature film was a fiction that told the shooting of Robert Flaherty's Nanook. He killed himself a month after the commercial release of the movie.

 Filmography

1995 ◘ Kabloonak / Nanook (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France / Canada; shot in 1992-1993)

 Television Filmography

1970 ◘ Dim Dam Dom (documentary; shorts; epi­sodes "La Pollution", "Zouc, c'est quoi")

1972 ◘ Arguments (documentary; episode "La Télé au Village")

        ◘ Les Beaux Jours (documentary; episode "Ante-cume ou la Vie choisie")

1974 ◘ L'Album de Zouc (documentary)

        ◘ Vive le Cinéma (documentary; episode "Micheline Presle")

        ◘ Au-delà du Pont (documentary; co-director with Claude de Givray)

        ◘ Lieux communs (documentary; short; episode "La Bella Poutina")

        ◘ 1977 Une Autre Vie, une Chronique de quelques Indiens Wayana (6 X 60' documentary)

1979 ◘ Bande à Part (documentary; episodes "Les Degling's", "Aimée la bien-nommée", "F comme Catcheuse")

1981 ◘ Rue des Archives (documentary; episode "Le Monde ouvrier vu par la Télévision")

        ◘ Danielle a disparu (documentary)

        ◘ Sous une Pluie d'Or (documentary)

1982 ◘ Loin des Sans-Pareils (documentary)

1985 ◘ Entre Ciel et Terre—Jérusalem: En attendant le Messie (documentary)

        ◘ Nouveaux Mondes (documentary; episodes "Des Ranchs au Milieu de nulle part", "Dame Nature")

1986 ◘ L'Afrique en Noirs et Blancs (documentary; shot in 1983)

        ◘ Nouveaux Mondes (documentary; episode "Philippines: Le Retour de l'Homme en blanc")