Nocturnes Productions is a French

production company A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and ...

founded in 2007 by Olivier Bohler and

Raphaël Millet Raphaël Millet is a French writer, critic, producer and director of cinema and television, as well as an organiser and programmer of photographic and cultural events. Studies Having completed his secondary education at lycée Henri-IV in Pari ...

Activity

Nocturnes Productions produces mainly

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

s about cinema and film-makers, such as ''

Code Name Melville ''Code Name Melville'' (original French title: ''Sous le nom de Melville'') is a feature length documentary film about Jean-Pierre Melville, directed by Olivier Bohler and produced by Raphaël Millet for Nocturnes Productions in 2008. Its world pr ...

''''Code Name Melville'' on IMDB
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Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory ''Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory'' (french: Pierre Schoendoerffer, la sentinelle de la mémoire) is a 2011 feature length documentary film about French writer and filmmaker Pierre Schoendoerffer, directed by Raphaël Millet and produ ...

'', ''Gaston Méliès and His Wandering Star Film Company'', ''Chaplin in Bali'' directed by Raphaël Millet, as well as

arthouse An art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily f ...

documentaries such as ''November'' directed by Abel Davoine. It also produces

short films A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

, such as ''Halfway There'' (original French title: ''À Mi-chemin'') directed by Arnaud Bénoliel, as well as corporate movies such as ''Magic of Cinema'' (original French title: ''La Magie du cinéma'') for the Dubai International Film Festival and ''Baba Bling'' for Singapore's National Heritage Board.

Filmography

Produced

* ''

'' (original French title: ''Sous le nom de Melville''), directed by Olivier Bohler, 76 minutes, 2008. World premiered during the 2008 edition of Taipei's Golden Horse Film Festival. * ''November'' (original French title: ''Novembre''), directed by Abel Davoine, in coproduction with Traces (Switzerland) and Imagia (Switzerland), 101 minutes, 2010. * ''

'' (original French title: ''Pierre Schoendoerffer, la sentinelle de la mémoire'') directed by Raphaël Millet, 60 minutes 30 seconds, 2011. * ''André S. Labarthe, From the Cat to the Hat'' (original French title: ''André S. Labarthe, du chat au chapeau'') directed by Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler, 30 minutes, 2011. * ''Melville-Delon : d'honneur et de nuit'' directed by Olivier Bohler, 26 minutes, 2011. * ''Halfway There'' (original French title: ''À Mi-chemin'') directed by Arnaud Bénoliel, 22 minutes 31 seconds, 2011. * ''Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed'' (original French title: ''Jean-Luc Godard, le désordre exposé'') directed by Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler, 64 minutes, 2012. * ''The Cinematographic Voyage of

Gaston Méliès Gaston Méliès (; February 12, 1852 – April 9, 1915) was a French film director who worked primarily in the United States. He was the brother of the film director Georges Méliès. Biography Gaston and the third and elder Méliès brother, ...

to Tahiti'' (original French title: ''Le Voyage cinématographique de Gaston Méliès à Tahiti'') directed by Raphaël Millet, 52 minutes, 2014. * ''Edgar Morin: Chronicle of a Gaze'' (original French title: ''Edgar Morin : chronique d'un regard'') directed by Céline Gailleurd and Olivier Bohler, 81 minutes, 2014. * ''Gaston Méliès and His Wandering Star Film Company'' (original French title: ''Le Voyage cinématographique de Gaston Méliès dans les Mers du Sud et en Extrême-Orient'') directed by Raphaël Millet, 60 minutes, 2015. * ''Chaplin in Bali'' directed by Raphaël Millet, 52 & 80 minutes, 2017.''Chaplin in Bali'' on IMDB
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References

External links

*
Nocturnes Productions' page on French documentary film portal
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''Code Name Melville'' on IMDB
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nocturnes Productions Film production companies of France