Pierre-André
Boutang was born in Paris,
Île-de-France, France on March 25, 1937. In 1962, rather than continue his
studies in Political Science, he returned to the ORTF as an assistant director,
programmer and co-producer of broadcast movies and series such as co-director
of ‘The Screens of the City’, ‘The Film Journal’, ‘Cinéregard Champs contre
champs”, “Bibliothèque de poche or Dim dam dom’. Then with his friend Guy Seligmann, he
created the show ‘L'Invité du dimanche’ (The Sunday Guest).
He filmed a large number of portraits of
personalities from the world of arts and letters to the Archives of the
twentieth century, television adventures launched by Jean José Marchand, to
which Pierre-André Boutang participated from the outset. Pierre-André Boutang
is obsessed with the idea to record and remember all the human and cultural
experiences, in the broadest sense of the word.
He made an impressive number of films.
His specialty: the portraits of the greats in the world of thought and
art.
At
the start in 1968, for ORTF he produced a new music program for youth. The
presentation was entrusted to to the team Rock & Folk with Philippe
Koechlin as editor and Raoul Sangla to direct. Music Forum was then broadcast
live on Wednesday October 23, 1968. Rock as an issue did not go all that well
with the public and after letters of protest the series was cancelled after
only 8 episdoes in June 1969.
During
the years 1970 and 1980 saw the broadcast of interviews, including Sartre himself,
The ABC’s of Gilles Deleuze and Serge Daney.
During
the 1970s, while continuing his activities in television, Pierre-André Boutang
approaches cinema fiction. In 1974, he
played the role of a representative of a rich U.S. company in the western “Don’t
Touch the White Woman” by Marco Ferreri. Being very close friends of the producer
Jean-Pierre Rassam, Pierre-André Boutang put his two cents in the films of
Marco Ferreri as La Grande bouffe in Robert Bresson’s “Lancelot du lac”, he
also appeared in Maurice Pialat’s “Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble”, Jean
Yanne’s “Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil”, “Moi y'en a
vouloir des sous” and “les Chinois à Paris”
He
resumed his duties as a producer in 1984 of the feature film “Favoris de la
lune” by Otar Iosseliani. In 1987 he assumes the head of cultural programs of
FR3 and Oceanic (distributed by La Sept, Saturday afternoon on FR3) at the
request of Georges Duby receiving two Sept d'or awards.
The
lead to the replaying of past television masterpieces (‘Portrait souvenir de
Proust’, directed by Roger Stéphane, ‘Les Heures chaudes de Montparnasse’
directed by Jean-Marie Drot, ‘Mon frère Jacques’ by Pierre Prévert ...), he
launches documentaries (many of Alain Jaubert ). But also passes on film documentary by filmmakers
of his time, such as ‘The Store de Frederick Wiseman’.
After
1992, he was appointed deputy director for programs of La Sept-Arte becomes
Arte-France and became a pillar of the Franco-German channel with Jérôme
Clément. He is then Managing Director
for theme programs and became a co-founder of the magazine Oceanopolis and
cultural magazine Metropolis from 1995 to 2006.
In 2006, Pierre-André Boutang is replaced by Rebecca Manzoni who names the
magazine Metropolis on Arte. The chain
chose to rejuvenate its programs and attract a new generation.
In
2006 , at age 69 he enters retirement.
He continues to shoot, edit and dream about new projects.
On
August 20, 2008 , Pierre-André Boutang died in Corsica at the age of 71.
BOUTANG (Pierre-André
Boutang) [3/25/1937, Paris, Île-de-France, France – 8/20/2008,
Corsica, France] – producer, director, son of philosopher Pierre Boutang
[1916-1998], brother of economist Yann Moulier Boutang [1949- ]
Don’t Touch the White
Woman! - 1973 (U.S. corporate representative)
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