- Height5′ 11¾″ (1.82 m)
- Claude Chamis is a French director and screenwriter born in Nice, in the south of France. He lives and works in Paris. Each of his films portrays a world dominated by the loss of senses and values in which his characters struggle to live. In 2019, his first feature film, "The Wanderings of Ivan", received a controversial reception.
- IMDb mini biography by: Marc Chevrier
- lack of conventional dramatic structure
- minimalist filmmaking
- close-ups of hands and feet
- characters who never understand the world in which they live.
- using the voiceover
- Is a huge fan of Morrissey and his former band, The Smiths.
- Has named Rodin as the artist who has influenced him the most.
- André Schneider has named Chamis one of his favorite directors on his blog and publicly expressed his desire to work with him.
- I 'm often told that I film my neuroses. But what else can I film? Only my neuroses are of interest to me. I only film my impossibilities, my frustrations, my paralysis, my suffocation, my obsessions. (Unifrance press file)
- I've always made films that are sort of avant-garde-y or whatever you call it.
- I make movies haunted by the literature, the writing, the book.
- I think I'm a very French director, but I probably should have made films around 1990. What I'm doing is trying to continue the work of the extraordinary French directors with whom I grew up. (Porte de Vincennes - press file)
- My aim is not to film another war of the sexes but rather show the opposite, there is no pre-established harmony between men and women.
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