Christian Volckman

Christian Volckman (b. 1971[1]) is a French film director, author, and painter. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris.

Christian Volckman
Image of Christian Volckman at Festival de Cinema de Sitges 2019
Born1971
NationalityFrench
EducationEcole Superieure D'Arts Graphiques
Occupation(s)Director, painter

Career

He is mainly known for his motion capture animation feature film Renaissance, a 2006 dystopian film noir. The film features the English voices of Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm. It was awarded the Cristal for Best Feature at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.[2] in 2006, as well as the Best Feature Film Award at the 5th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials[3] in 2007. The film, distributed by Miramax, received mixed reviews.[4]

His other film work includes music videos and two shorts, Le cobaye, which received a Prix du Jury at Annecy in 1995, and Maaz, which has been shown at nearly 100 festivals and won 30 prizes, including two for sound.

Volckman has directed several music videos, including "Miss Chang" and " Once upon a Time" for the group Chinese Man. "Paris sera toujours Paris", "Sous le ciel de Paris" and "Champs Elysées" for the singer ZAZ. "Requiem" is the song for Alma that represents France at the Eurovision 2017.

In 2008, he and visual artist Raphael Thierry started the website ©®, an artistic collaboration developing thematic films and exhibitions named THEFLOW.

In 2019, he directed the film The Room, with Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens, which was shown at the 2019 Sitges Film Festival.[5]

He is developing two other films: Rapaces (Predator), produced by Oriflammes Films, and The Kid, produced by Bidibul productions and Superprod.

Filmography
Year Title Position Note
1994 Le cobaye Director and writer Student short film
1995 Rayman Animator Video game
1999 Maaz Director, writer, producer and actor Short film
2003 The Man Without a Face Poster designer Short film
2006 Renaissance Director, art director and original production designer Feature film
2006-2017 Music videos for Zaz, Chineseman, Pep's, Alma Director and original production designer Music videos
2018 Rapaces Director Feature film
2019 The Room Writer, director and original production designer Feature film
2020 The Kid Director and art director Feature film

See also

Footnotes
  1. "Biography C R - galerie Olivier Waltman". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. "Annecy 2006 Award Winning Films". annecy.org. Retrieved 5 December 2006.
  3. KAFF 2007 Díjak Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (English: "KAFF 2007 Awards Archived 2017-09-08 at the Wayback Machine"). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 2007.
  4. "reviews for Renaissance". imdb.com. Retrieved 5 December 2006.
  5. "THE ROOM - Sitges Film Festival - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya". sitgesfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
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