Ledoux, Mathias

(July 3, 1953, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France - March 10, 2005, Paris, France)

   Having graduated from the Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière in 1972, he started as a camera operator for the O.R.T.F (French TV at the time) and SFP (a production society that worked for TV) (1973­1979). He directed two shorts before working as a cameraman for several TV directors, including the most innovative of all, Jean-Christophe Averty. In the 1980s and 1990s, he directed commercials and musical videos for Michel Jonasz, Johnny Hallyday, and Vanessa Paradis.

 Filmography

1972 ◘ Les Yeux en Face des Trous (short)

1978 ◘ Le Retour (short)

1985 ◘ Le Maître-Chanteur (short)

1991 ◘ Les Secrets professionnels du DocteurAppfelgluck (shot in 1990)

2000 ◘ En Face / UK: Across the Room

2003 ◘ Three Blind Mice (France / UK)

 Television Filmography

1981 ◘ Tistou les Pouces verts

        ◘ Objectif Nul (TV series)

        ◘ TVN 595, la Télévision des Nuls (TV show)

        ◘ ABCD Nuls (61 X 5')

        ◘ Les Nuls, l'Emission (56 X 60')

        ◘ Ne m'oubliez pas: Hommage à Bernard Blier (documentary)

        ◘ Warhol: Nothing Special (documentary)

        ◘ Marcel Duchamp, même (documentary)

        ◘ Ma Sœur est un chic Type Le Misanthrope

1996 ◘ Elle s'appelait Françoise (documentary; co-director with Anne Andreu)

        ◘ The 3 Tenors, Paris 1998 / USA: Three Tenors '98 World Cup Paris (documentary)

        ◘ Les Vagabondes du Ciel (documentary)

        ◘ La Belle Hélène

2001 ◘ Caméra Café (TV series; co-director only)

2003 ◘ Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris (documentary)

        ◘ Monica: irrésistible (documentary)

        ◘ Claude Berri: Le dernier Nabab (documentary)

2005 ◘ Les Pianos de la Nuit (musical documentary; co-director only)