Desvilles, Jean

(May 13, 1931, Paris, France - )

   After studying law, he attended painting courses at the Académie André Lhote. Then he started his pro­fessional career as a ballet decorator and costume designer, notably for Maurice Béjart, Jeannine Charrat, and Milorad Miskovitch. He also created a fashion workshop. In the 1950s, he met Max Ernst and made his film debut filming a short on the surrealist paint­er's wife, Dorothea Tanning (Le Regard ébloui). He shot about 100 video documentary shorts on sculp­tors, painters, writers, and poets. From 1976 to 1978, he produced and directed about twenty porn movies under the pseudonym of Georges Fleury. A painter since the 1950s, he exhibited his works in many gal­leries all over the world, notably in Japan, Korea, and the USA. Other credits (as co-producer): 1968 La Trêve (Claude Guillemot, unreleased); 1969 Ciné Girl (Francis Leroi); 1971 L'Araignée d'Eau (Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe); 1978 Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé / USA: The New Beaujolais Wine Has Arrived ... (also actor; Jean-Luc Voulfow).

 Filmography

        ◘ Le Regard ébloui (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Balayeur (short)

        ◘ Picasso, le Romancero Picador (documentary; short)

        ◘ Une Semaine de Bonté (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Monde de Rutsch (short)

        ◘ L'Impasse d'un Matin (short)

1965 ◘ Le Crocodile majuscule (animation; co-director with Eddy Ryssack, Maurice Rosy, France / Belgium)

        ◘ Le Cours d'une Vie (short; documentary; co-director with Jacques Darribehaude)

        ◘ Paris au Temps des Cerises, la Commune (documentary; short; co-director with Jacques Dar-ribehaude)

        ◘ Chardin (documentary; short)

1970 ◘ Le Revolver et la Rose (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Jeux pour Couples infidèles / UK: Hot and Blue (as Georges Fleury)

        ◘ Les Anges (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-producer)

1975 ◘ Mais où sont passées les jeunes Filles en Fleur? (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-producer)

1977 ◘ Jacques Prévert (documentary; medium-length)

 Television Filmography

1967 ◘ Gibus (animation; thirteen episodes)