Lapoujade, Robert

(Joseph Robert Lapoujade / January 3, 1921, Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France - May 17, 1993, Saincy-sur-Bellot, Seine-et-Marne, France)

   The son of a baker and pastry cook, he had to work after the death of his father. At age fourteen, he earned his living as a butcher boy and a cook's assistant in a restaurant. He exhibited his first paint­ings in 1939 and became a renowned artist after the end of World War II. He also wrote two essays (1950 Le Mal à voir, Editions Le Messager boîteux de Paris; 1955 Les Mécanismes de la Fascination, Edi­tions du Seuil), a novel (1970 L'inadmissible, Editions Nadeau), and a play (1977 De l'une à l'Autre ou La Raie médiane) and published many articles in such reviews as Les Temps modernes, L'Arc, Lettres nouvelles, Preuves, Positif, and Pariscope. He was a directing ani­mator (1963 L'Annonciation, animated short, Philippe Durand) and played in La Règle du Jeu (Françoise Etchegaray, 1992).

 Filmography

        ◘ Enquête sur un Corps (short; also producer)

        ◘ Loules (animated short; also producer)

        ◘ Andréou (short)

        ◘ Noir et blanc (animated short)

        ◘ Chastel (short)

        ◘ Prison (short; also screenwriter, cinematographer, editor)

1963 ◘ Prassinos: L'image et le Mouvement (short)

        ◘ Vélodrame (short)

        ◘ Trois Portraits d'un Oiseau qui n'existe pas (animated short; also screenwriter, adapter, cinematographer)

        ◘ Cataphote (animated short)

        ◘ Mise à nu (animated short)

        ◘ Lortraits parallèles: Jean Paulhan (documentary; short; co-director with Yannick Bellon)

1967 ◘ L'Ombre de la Pomme (animated short; also screenwriter)

1968 ◘ Le Socrate / USA: Socrates (also screenwriter)

1973 ◘ Le Sourire vertical

1975 ◘ Un Comédien sans Paradoxe (animated short; also screenwriter, cinematographer)

1977 ◘ Les Mémoires de Don Quichotte (animation)