Céline Gailleurd

Biography

Céline Gailleurd is a French screenwriter and director born December 22, 1981 in Nice. She studied cinema and in 2011, she defended a thesis entitled Survivals of the painting of the century in Italian cinema of the 1910s. She was the assistant of Agnès Varda, before starting a career as a director. In 2010, she co-directed with Olivier Bohler André S. Labarthe, From the Cat to the Hat, then Jean-Luc Godard, the disorder exhibited in 2012. In 2014, she teamed up once again with Olivier Bohler and co-directed a documentary entitled Edgar Morin, chronicle of a look. "Accompanying Edgar Morin in France and Germany, in the places most evocative of his relationship to the image and to anthropology, this documentary reveals the place that cinema occupies in his thought", writes Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues in a review, in 2014. She is the author of articles for various magazines, such as Les Cahiers du cinema, Europe, Esprit, Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Art Press.