Morder, Joseph

(October 5, 1949, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago-)

   Of Polish descent, he went to Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1952 and spent his childhood in South America (he defines himself as a "tropical Jew"). He settled in France in 1962 (British born, he became a French citi­zen in 1970). For his eighteenth birthday, he received a silent Super-8 camera and began a filmed diary that remains a work in progress. A prolific experimental filmmaker, he shot almost 800 movies, according to film historian Raphaël Bassan. He also wrote a short (1979 Shiva, also actor, Gérard Courant), occasion­ally played in films (1982 L'Escalier de la Haine, short, Louis Skorecki; 1989 Les Aventures d'Eddie Turley, Gé­rard Courant; 1994 Théâtre des Familles, short, Anne Benhaïem; Omelette, scenes deleted, Rémi Lange; 1995 (Sic), short, Matthieu Poirot-Delpech; 2001 Said, short, Romuald Beugnon; 2002 Les Filles personne ne s'en mé­fie, Charlotte Silvera), and appeared as himself in doc­umentaries (1978-1984 Cinématon, Gérard Courant; 2001 Le Journal de Joseph M., short, Gérard Courant; 2004 Aqui soyJosé, Fernando Mieles, Ecuador).

 Filmography

1967 ◘ Journal filmé

1969 ◘ Narcisse (short)

1971 ◘ Zéro et Quart (short)

        ◘ Histoires de Morlocks (short; co-director with The Morlocks)

        ◘ L'Aventure de Walter Smith (short)

        ◘ Projet pour un film à Chambonredon (short; co-director with The Morlocks)

        ◘ Un Américain à Paris (short)

1972 ◘ La Fille du Canal (short)

        ◘ L'Epicier (short; co-director with Jean-Claude Réminiac)

        ◘ Le Pique-Nique (short; co-director with Dan­iel Belcberg)

1973 ◘ Avrum et Sipojra (short; also producer)

1976 ◘ La Chatte de Colette (short)

        ◘ Un Film de Famille I (short)

1978 ◘ Le Chien amoureux (Journal filmé)

        ◘ L'Eté madrilène (short)

        ◘ Lucien Leuwen—Fragments (short)

        ◘ Un Film de Famille II (short)

1979 ◘ Thé au Bois (short; co-director with Gérard Courant, Jacques Haubois, Théo Hernandez; also cinematographer, editor)

        ◘ La Femme en vert (short)

        ◘ Ma Mère est une Star (short; also screenwriter, producer)

        ◘ Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas: L'Eté (short; also screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, actor, sound editor and engineer, editor, musician)

        ◘ Le Mariage de Joseph (short)

1980 ◘ Certains tombent en Amour (Journal filmé) (short)

        ◘ Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas 2: L'Automne (short)

1981 ◘ Anne Rochelle (short)

        ◘ Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas 3: L'Hiver (short)

        ◘ Les Sorties de Charlerine Dupas 4: Le Printemps (short)

        ◘ La Vie d'une Femme, un Mélodrame (medium-length)

        ◘ Le Lapin à deux Têtes (short; also screenwriter, producer, actor as himself, cinematographer, sound editor and engineer, editor)

        ◘ Un Grand Amour de Lucien Lumière (short)

        ◘ La Maison de Pologne (medium-length)

        ◘ Mélodrames de mon Enfance

1982 ◘ Les Nuages américains

        ◘ Au Petit Suisse (documentary; also screenwriter, producer, actor as himself, cinematographer, sound editor and engineer, editor)

1983 ◘ La Maison de Pologne

1985 ◘ Mémoires d'un Juif tropical (also screenwriter, cinematographer, sound editor and engineer)

1987 ◘ L'Arbre mort (also co-screenwriter, producer, cinematographer)

1992 ◘ Romamor

        ◘ Carlota (also screenwriter, actor)

1995 ◘ Voyage à Rouen (also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ Les Chambres d'Ami(e)s (also cinematographer, editor, sound editor and engineer)

        ◘ La Plage

        ◘ La Reine de Trinidad (short)

        ◘ Ich bin ein Berliner (short)

        ◘ Mes Sept Mers

        ◘ La Gare de . . . (short; also screenwriter; shot in 1998)

        ◘ Quelque Chose de là-bas (short)

        ◘ Assoud le Buffle (short; also co-screenwriter, cinematographer)

2005 ◘ El Cantor (also co-screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ Lettre filmée de Joseph Morder à Alain Cavalier (documentary; short)

        ◘ Assoud et le Mystère de la Plage (short)

        ◘ J'aimerais partager le Printemps avec quelqu'un