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French Documentary Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert on the Need to Improvise: ‘I Plan for Something That Is Accidental’
French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert received the honorary Golden Alexander award at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival Friday.
You meet people who disturb or scare you or give you food for thought, and make you see things in a different way, and it stimulates you.” Speaking about “On the Adamant,” which is set at the Adamant, a day-care center in central Paris for adults with a variety of mental disorders, he explained: “It is a film about human beings; it is not about a psychiatric clinic.” He said the psychiatrists had been very open to the idea of shooting the film, and it helped him shoot “Averroès & Rosa Parks,” which was shot at two psychiatric units at the Esquirol Hospital in Paris, and “The Typewriter and Other Headaches,” which takes us into the homes of some of the protagonists from “On the Adamant” and “Averroès & Rosa Parks” during visits by their caregivers. Early in his career, he shot a film about a mountain climber for a TV series called “Les carnets de l’aventure,” and the experience stayed with him.
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