Caro, Marc

(April 2, 1956, Paris, France - )

   In the late 1970s, he published comic strips in such magazines as Métal Hurlant, Fluide Glacial, Charlie Mensuel, and L'Echo des Savanes. He created in 1974 a fanzine, Fantasmagorie, in which wrote future film­maker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (they met at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and published monographs on Tex Avery, Jirf Trnka, and the Fleischer brothers). He co-directed with Jeunet three shorts and two feature films. He also created additional sound (1989 Foutaises, short, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) and successively was set designer (1988 KOK, short, Régine Chopinot), art director and character designer (1994 Vibroboy, short, Jan Kounen), actor (1995 Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet, TV short, Emmanuel Carlier; 1996 Je suis ton Châtiment / Mondokino, short, Guil­laume Bréaud; Le Dernier Chaperon rouge, also designer, short, Jan Kounen; 1997 Dobermann, Jan Kounen; 2002 Traitement de Substitution No. 4, video, Christian Chapiron), design supervisor (1997 Alien: Resurrection / Alien 4, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, USA), character designer (2001 Vidocq / US DVD: Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq, Pitof), and special designer of hieroglyphic al­phabet (2004 Blueberry / Blueberry: L'Expérience secrète / USA: Renegade, Jan Kounen, France / Mexico / USA). From 1980 to 1990, he directed video clips.

 Filmography

1978 ◘ L'Evasion (animated short; co-director with Jean-Pierre Jeunet; also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Manège (animated short; co-director with Jean-Pierre Jeunet; also character desiger)

        ◘ Le Bunker de la dernière Rafale / USA: The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (short; co-director with Jean-Pierre Jeunet; also co-screenwriter, set decorator, costume designer, cinematographer, actor, editor)

1985 ◘ Le Cirque Conférence (short)

        ◘ Maître Cube (short)

        ◘ Rude Raid (short)

        ◘ Le Topologue (short)

        ◘ Le Défilé (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Concierge est dans l'Escalier (short)

1991 ◘ Delicatessen (co-director with Jean-Pierre Jeu­net; also co-screenwriter, artistic director, storyboard artist, production designer, actor, sound effects)

        ◘ KO Kid (animated short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Cité des Enfants perdus / Die Stadt der ver-lorenen Kinder / La ciudad de los ninos perdidos / La ciutat dels nens perduts / USA: The City of Lost Children (co-director with Jean-Pierre Jeunet; also co-screenwriter, artistic direc­tor, production designer, actor, sound effects; France / West Germany / Spain)

        ◘ L.S. Dead (short)

1998 ◘ Exercice of Steel (shot on video; also screenwriter, editor)

2008 ◘ Dante 08 (also co-screenwriter)