Odoul, Damien

(March 15, 1968, Le Puy, Haute-Loire, France - )

   A self-taught man, he wrote his first poem at age thirteen, started playing onstage at age fifteen, and directed his first short at age twenty. He is also a video artist and a photographer. His poetry was pu­blished (Faux Haïku d'un Occidental pas très Orthodoxe, Lucien Souny, 2007; Les Poèmes du Milieu, Editions Lume, 2008).

 Filmography

1988 ◘ La Douce (short; also screenwriter)

1990 ◘ A l'Ouest de l'Orient (short; also screenwriter)

1994 ◘ Tob (Tête d'Oeuf Bouilli) (short; also screenwriter; shot in 1991-1994)

1995 ◘ Elegeia (short; also screenwriter; unreleased)

2000 ◘ Magik (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Sans Monde (short; also screenwriter)

2003 ◘ Réminiscences (short; also screenwriter, producer, camera operator)

        ◘ Les Barbots (short; also screenwriter, actor, producer, production designer; shot in 1995-2003)

        ◘ Le Souffle / UK and USA: Deep Breath (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor, camera opera­tor)

        ◘ Errance (also co-screenwriter, actor, camera operator)

2004 ◘ En attendant le Déluge (also screenwriter, actor, producer, camera operator, production designer, cinematographer, costume designer)

        ◘ Morasseix (originally shot for TV in 1992; also co-screenwriter, actor)

2007 ◘ L'Histoire de Richard O (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)