Pierre Creton

Following the steps of an English botanist, in the landscapes of the Normandy coast, people and cameras look at flowers. This is an essay on attent...

15 de jan. de 2025

The journey of a young man as he begins an apprenticeship in the French countryside to train as a gardener. There he encounters a trio of men who w...

18 de out. de 2023

A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the marcassin at Madeleine's house, Vincent's trip to ...

04 de out. de 2017

African immigrants start working on a farm in Normandy and hope to open their own restaurant someday.

13 de nov. de 2019

Whoever thought phantom rides are a historical genre has not seen how Pierre Creton put his camera on a record player: it’s a lesson in harmony and...

23 de jul. de 2021

From his father, Pierre inherited a wood that he looks after and, in the middle of the wood, a cabin, his father’s old hunting lodge where Pierre n...

01 de abr. de 2020

In the Paris metro, there’s a man in a black mask. An anti-vax demonstration passes by the indifferent camera. The man goes home, the sound of soci...

07 de jul. de 2022

Three weeks of hiking in one of the highest-altitude places on earth: the Spirit Valley in the Himalayas. Two sequences of flowers picked like in h...

02 de fev. de 2006

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.

11 de jun. de 2019

A walker who crosses three regions: Vattetot-sur-mer in the Pays-de-Caux region, Saint-Firmin-des-Bois in the Gâtinais region, and Carrouge in Swit...

17 de abr. de 2014

I met Pierre twenty-five years ago, when I set up my market stand next to his: he was selling poultry and eggs, me, flowers and honey. I asked his ...

14 de mar. de 2019

The comedienne Françoise Lebrun regularly comes to the Maniquerville gerontology center to read Proust to the residents. It is an opportunity for t...

02 de jun. de 2010

10 de abr. de 2012

Simon, At the Crack of Dawn is the fifth film that Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré have made together. As the film is the quintessence of poetic ci...

07 de abr. de 2009

“This was, a priori, a more familiar commission, as I had lived in Le Havre – it’s actually the only town I know a little. And I’ve always liked th...

06 de abr. de 2010

“It begins with an exhibition at the French Institute in Munich. We had decided to create an installation together [with Vincent Barré] in the gree...

17 de abr. de 2010

“When FACIM (Foundation for international cultural activities in mountain regions) called me to propose making a film about Georges-Arthur Goldschm...

17 de abr. de 2010

During a trip to China with Vincent to meet people in art schools and universities, I discovered the work of Deng Guo Yan, the director of the Tian...

24 de abr. de 2010

“I talked to Françoise Lebrun about the nightingales’ song at Vincent’s place in the Loiret. She then introduced me to Colette’s Les Vrilles de la ...

24 de abr. de 2007

“I met Jean Lambert one year after my arrival in Bénouville, in 1992...Before we met, I used to see his house, his farm, and wondered who could be ...

03 de fev. de 2002

Dairy controller in the "Secteur 545", Pierre Creton does the portrait of a rural existence devoid of picturesque reduction

04 de jan. de 2004

“Sophie was doing a series of portraits of friends reading. I suggested to her, along with our common friend Sophie Marie Le Pallec, that we make a...

01 de abr. de 1998