Jacques Loiseleux

Robert-Jacques Loiseleux (born March 18, 1933 in Saint-Quentin , Département Aisne , † March 17, 2014 in Versailles ) was a French cameraman who worked between 1961 and 2007 over 50 cinema, television, documentary and short films . Including The Judge They Called Sheriff , The Loulou , On What We Love, or Van Gogh .

life and career

Jacques Loiseleux, born in Saint-Quentin in the French department of Aisne in 1933 , gained his first experience in the film business in 1961 as a cameraman on the television series Le temps des copains . Further work for television followed in the 1960s, including for the popular French series Les oiseaux rares . Over the decades, Jacques Loiseleux worked as a cameraman mainly for cinema productions. He worked with numerous well-known directors, including Yves Boisset , Maurice Pialat , Patrick Grandperret , Tony Gatlif , Jacques Philippe , Garrel Rouffio , Viviane Canda and Philippe Faucon . His last work was for the director Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez in 2007 for his drama El camino .

He was also engaged as an artist for photography in many educational institutions in France and abroad, especially in Switzerland and Cuba . Loiseleux was the author of the book La Lumière en cinéma published by Cahiers du cinema in 2004. In 2005 the book was also translated into Spanish.

Jacques Loiseleux won several festival awards during his active career as a cameraman, including awards for Best Cinematographer at the Gibara International Non-Budget Film Festival , the Ourense Independent Film Festival, the Lecce Festival of European Cinema and the Montréal World Film Festival .

In addition to his work for cinema and television, Loiseleux remained closely associated with the documentary and short film genre throughout his life.

Jacques Loiseleux died on March 17, 2014 at the age of 80 in Versailles.

The film editor Valérie Loiseleux is his daughter.

Awards

• 1994: Best Artistic Contribution at the Montréal World Film Festival
• 2003: AEC Best Cinematography Award at the Ourense Independent Film Festival
• 2003: Best Cinematography at the Lecce Festival of European Cinema
• 2005: Special Prize of the Jury at the Gibara International Non-Budget Film Festival

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

• 1973: Command RAS (RAS)
• 1975: Monsieur Dupont (Dupont Lajoie)
• 1977: The judge they called Sheriff (Le juge Fayard dit Le Shériff)
• 1980: The Policewoman (La femme flic)
• 1980: Les turlupins
• 1980: The Loulou (Loulou)
• 1981: Courts-circuits
• 1981: Honey, this is a strong piece (Le roi des cons)
• 1983: The princes (Les princes)
• 1983: To what we love (À nos amours.)
• 1984: outrage
• 1986: Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur
• 1989: Pleure pas my love
• 1989: Radio Corbeau - The raven unpacks (Radio Corbeau)
• 1989: Triads of the Kiss (Les baisers de secours)
• 1991: Van Gogh
• 1992: Ma soeur, mon amour
• 1994: Kabloonak
• 1994: Le geographe manuel
• 1995: Pullman paradis
• 1996: Le coeur fantôme
• 1997: Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir
• 2000: Samia
• 2003: Les baigneuses
• 2003: A Mulher Polícia
• 2006: Suzanne
• 2007: El camino

watch TV

• 1961/1963: Le temps des copains (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1965–1966: Thierry la Fronde (TV series, 13 episodes)
• 1966: Rouletabille (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1966: Une fille du régent (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1967: Salle n ° 8 (TV series, 65 episodes)
• 1967: La vie commence à minuit (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1968: Affaire Vilain contre ministère public (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1969: Les oiseaux rares (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1969: Café du square (TV series, 20 episodes)
• 1970: Allô police (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1979: Histoires insolites (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1982: Cinéma 16 (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1989: The Ministries of Art (Les ministères de l'art) (TV documentary)
• 1991: Les carnassiers (TV movie)
• 1993: The Seznec Affair (L'affaire Seznec) (TV movie)
• 1995: The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus) (TV movie)

Documentaries or short films

• 1970: Vitesse oblige (short documentary film)
• 1974: Les deux mémoires (documentary film)
• 1975: Mort de Raymond Roussel (short film)
• 1988: A Tale of the Wind (Une histoire de vent) (documentary)
• 1992: John (short film)
• 1995: Le banquet (short film)
• 1999: Berlin-Cinema (documentary film)
• 2003: Baptiste (short film)
• 2005: L'enfant d'une nuit (short film)

literature

• Jacques Loiseleux. In: Alison Smith: French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May. , Manchester University Press, 2005, p. 268

Web links

• Jacques Loiseleux in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Films by Jacques Loiseleux with German distribution titles

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jacques Loiseleux: La luz en el cine: cómo se ilumina con palabras: cómo se escribe con la luz
2. ^ Obituary for Jacques Loiseleux in: Association Française des directeurs de la photographie Cinématographique