Laurent Salgues (born 13 September 1967) is a French filmmaker. Laurent Salgues was born on 13 September 1967. He attended the École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ESAV) in Toulouse, where he obtained a master's degree in audiovisual studies. He went on to the Conservatoire Européen d'Ecriture Audiovisuelle (CEEA) and the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

(UCLA) for further studies in screenplay writing. Between 1992 and 1996 he directed three shorts: ''Eternité moins cinq'', ''Camilio'' and ''La femme à l'ombrelle''. He has written screenplays for television and film since 2003. His first full-length feature film was ''

Rêves de poussière ''Rêves de poussière'' ('' en, Dreams of Dust'' or ''Buried Dreams'') is a 2006 film by director Laurent Salgues. Plot ''Rêves de poussière'' tells of Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerien peasant, who goes to look for work in a gold mine in northeastern ...

'' (Dreams of Dust - 2007). The film was a France-Canada co-production between Athénaïse – Sophie Salbot and Corporation ACPAV inc. – Marc Daigle. The associate producer was

Sékou Traoré Sékou Traoré is a filmmaker from Burkina Faso. He and his friends Dani Kouyaté and Issa Traoré de Brahima established the production company Sahelis Productions Sahelis Productions is a film and television video production and post-producti ...

of the

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...

company

Sahelis Productions Sahelis Productions is a film and television video production and post-production company based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The company was founded in 1992 by Sékou Traoré Sékou Traoré is a filmmaker from Burkina Faso. He and his friends D ...

. ''Rêves de poussière'' tells of Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerien peasant, who goes to look for work in a gold mine in northeastern

. He hopes to forget the past in this prison, where the bars are made of dust and wind. A reviewer says the "opening shot reminds you of a choreographed musical—only there is no music, only silence and the sounds of workers’ tools". Another critic says "Cinematographed by Crystel Fournier, images are hauntingly dreamlike. Wind-swept dust is a recurrent motif". Laurent Salgues is married to the actress Fatou Tall Salgues.

Filmographie

*''CODIS 46'' (1992), documentaire (8'), vidéo, couleur *''Éternité moins cinq'' (1992), fiction (6'), vidéo, couleur *''Camilio'' (1993), fiction (5'), 16mm *''La Femme à l'ombrelle'' (1996), docufiction (13'), vidéo, NB et couleur *''Rêves de poussière'' (2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Salgues, Laurent 1967 births Living people French film directors University of California, Los Angeles alumni