Muyl, Philippe

(May 30, 1943, Lille, Nord, France - )

   After receiving a high school diploma in philosophy, he studied graphic arts in Belgium (Saint-Luc school in Tournai) and then entered the Paris Advertising Superior School. He successively worked as an ar­tistic director and ideas man and writer for various agencies. He also was advertising chief for the comic strip magazine Pilote and co-founded two societies, Interligne, specializing in design and packaging, and Synchronie Productions, dedicated to audiovisual. By 1976, he had shot more than 100 institutional films. He wrote the dialogue of a TV movie (1993 La Lettre inachevée, Chantal Picault) and co-authored screenplays for TV (1993 Martineau . . . et le Portrait de Femme, Daniel Moosmann; 2007 Bac + 70, Laurent Lévy) and cinema (2007 Adventures in the NPM, anima­tion, Gérard Pirès, Tom Sito, Teddy Tyang, Taiwan).

 Filmography

1978 ◘ Quelques Enfants du Bengla Desh (documentary; short)

1980 ◘ L'Ecole des Chefs (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1985 ◘ L'Arbre sous la Mer (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer; shot in 1983)

1991 ◘ Contre l'Oubli / Ecrire contre l'oubli / Against Oblivion / Lest We Forget (documentary; co-director only)

1993 ◘ Cuisine et Dépendances / UK and USA: Kitchen with Appartment (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1997 ◘ Tout doit disparaître (also co-screenwriter; shot in 1995)

2000 ◘ La Vache et le Président (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

2002 ◘ Le Papillon (also screenwriter, dialogist)

2008 ◘ Magique

 Television Filmography

1996 ◘ Adorable petite Bombe (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)