A French writer and director, born in Paris, France. He is best known for his work with Jean-Luc Godard while writing his 1967 film La Chinoise screenplay. They founded the Dziga Vertov Group and together they produced a series of overtly political films including Le vent d'est...Read more (1970), Tout va bien (1972), and Letter to Jane (1972). He left France in the mid-1970s to accept a teaching position at the University of California, San Diego at the urging of film critic and painter Manny Farber. He remained at the School of Visual Arts thereafter to teach film history and criticism. His most notable directing credits include Poto and Cabengo (1978), Routine Pleasures (1986), and My Crasy Life (1991).
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A French writer and director, born in Paris, France. He is best known for his work with Jean-Luc Godard while writing his 1967 film La Chinoise screenplay. They founded the Dziga...Read more Vertov Group and together they produced a series of overtly political films including Le vent d'est (1970), Tout va bien (1972), and Letter to Jane (1972). He left France in the mid-1970s to accept a teaching position at the University of California, San Diego at the urging of film critic and painter Manny Farber. He remained at the School of Visual Arts thereafter to teach film history and criticism. His most notable directing credits include Poto and Cabengo (1978), Routine Pleasures (1986), and My Crasy Life (1991).