ALGER LA BLANCHE

Cyril Collard

(Paris, France, 1957-1993) after studying math and physics, changed his interests and moved to Puerto Rico, where he began a career as an author. After returning to France, with Sylvain Rondy and René-Marc Bini he created the rock group CYR and began working in film as an assistant to Maurice Pialat for Loulou (1980), Ai nostri amori (To Our Loves, 1993), and Police (1985), in which he also played a small role, and as a documentary filmmaker for television and the author of musical videos (in particular, for the Franco-Algerian group Carte de Séjour). In 1987, he published his first novel Condamné amour a short while after discovering he was HIV-positive, and three years later, he wrote the autobiographical Les Nuits Fauves, which later became his only fiction feature film. Les Nuits Fauves (Savage Nights, 1992), won four César awards and was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film. Previously, he had made a short film with the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, Les raboteurs de Caillebotte (1988), and created the TV series Le Lyonnais, directing one episode. He died of AIDS at 35 years of age, three days before the César ceremony which honored him posthumously.

FILMOGRAFIA

La Baule-Dakar (doc., 1981), Grand huit (mm, 1982), Alger la bianche (cm, 1985), Les raboteurs de Caillebotte (cm, 1988), Les nuits fauves (1992).