Bertrand Mandico is a French

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of short films, medium-length films, experimental essays, and three feature films. ''The Wild Boys'', his first feature film, was named the top film of 2018 by

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. His films are often interested in the body and gender fluidity and incorporate photos and written elements. Born in 1977 in Toulouse, Mandico graduated from the film directing program at the

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school in Paris. Mandico has an unusual working method. He prefers to create the audio for his films in post-production. Actors post-synchronize themselves, and the environmental sounds and music are layered on. However, he always shoots his images on color film, with no post-production images. Background projection and superimposition are done during the shoot. He created the Incoherence Manifesto in 2012 with Icelandic filmmaker Katrín Ólafsdóttir. He states that

To be incoherent means to have faith in cinema, it means to have a romantic approach, unformatted, free, disturbed and dreamlike, cinegenic, an epic narration.

A group of young filmmakers including Yann Gonzalez,

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and

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have been influenced by the manifesto. Mandico has commenced "20+1 Projections", a collaborative project with Romanian-American actress Elina Löwensohn, where they are to make 21 short films in 21 years. Though each film is meant to be a unique narrative and formal work, they are to revolve around the themes of aging and desire. As of 2018, they've shot 8 films and completed 6 of them. He was named best director at the

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in 2018 for ''The Wild Boys.''

Filmography

Mandico has directed 40 short films, TV-commercials and musical films.

Feature films

Mandico's feature films include:

Short films

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mandico, Bertrand 1971 births Living people Mass media people from Toulouse French film directors French male screenwriters 21st-century French screenwriters