Porte, Michelle

(Valence, Drôme, France - )

   After graduating with a bachelor's degree in math­ematics and chemistry, she met Pierre Schaeffer, with whom she worked in the research service at ORTF (French TV) (image and contemporary music). Then she became an assistant director before directing her first TV documentary. She authored an essay (1977 Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras, Les Editions de Minuit) and did an interview with Marguerite Duras that was published in Le Camion (Editions de Minuit, 1977).

 Filmography

1990 ◘ Portrait de Famille (avec mon Père Maurice De­nis) (documentary; short)

1992 ◘ Jean Degottex—Peintre (documentary; short)

        ◘ Christian Boltanski—Signalement (two 2 X 60' documentaries: "Le Voyage au Pérou", "Une Maison en Allemagne")

1994 ◘ Portrait de Claude de Soria, Sculpteur (documentary; short)

2004 ◘ L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas (also screenwriter)

 Television Filmography

1976 ◘ Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras (2 X 60' documentary)

        ◘ Les Lieux de Virginia Woolf (documentary)

        ◘ La Peste—Marseille 1720 (documentary)

        ◘ Savannah Bay, c'est toi (documentary)

        ◘ La Princesse Palatine à Versailles, Portrait d'une Famille royale (documentary)

1987 ◘ A la Recherche de Carl Theodor Dreyer (documentary)

        ◘ La Tour de Victor Laloux (documentary; short)

1989 ◘ Chroniques de France (documentary; episodes "D'un Nord à l'Autre", "Ballade en Cham­pagne")

        ◘ Océaniques (documentary; episode "Edmond Jabès")

1993 ◘ La Maison de Jean-Pierre Raynaud 1969-1993 (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Gardien du Feu (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Un Siècle d'Ecrivains (documentary; episode "Françoise Sagan")