Catherine Belkhodja
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Catherine Belkhodja is a French
artist, actress and film director.
to a Kabyle
Algeria
n father and a French mother on 15 April 1955. She first lived and studied in Algiers
where she started to write her first short stories. She went on studying the theatre, music and fine arts, took her first steps in the cinema and left for Paris to read architecture, philosophy, town planning and ethnology
of Maghreb
.
She graduated in philosophy and began earning her living as a teacher, then read architecture, specialising in bioclimatics and working in the town planning department of the Paris Prefecture. She later took aesthetics with Olivier Revault d'Allones at the Sorbonne
University, prior to leaving for Belgium
to further her studies in solar architecture, then for Egypt
to work with Hassan Fathy
on earth architecture.
Catherine Belkhodja is well travelled, with a passion for Asia
which she has toured extensively: Japan
, China
, Burma, Cambodia
, Thailand
, Laos
, Malaysia, South Korea
, the Maldives
, India
, Indonesia
, Sri Lanka
, Singapore
, Hong-Kong (China), Taiwan
and Macau
(China). She has also toured Turkey
, Russia
, Uzbekistan
, Tajikistan
and South Africa
.
and television
to conceptual art, as well as journalism, philosophy
and writing.
in "Noir et Blanc" (Black and White), Guy Gilles
in "Nuit docile" (Docile night), Jean-Pierre Limosin in "L'autre nuit" (The other night) and Benoît Peeters
in "Le compte-rendu" (The Report). She was the central character in Chris Marker’s Silent Movie
and Level Five
, in which she was said to epitomise a traveller in the monochromatic universe of silent movies.
She has given cinema courses in Lebanon.
, Envoyé Spécial, Des racines et des ailes
, Faut pas rêver, Océaniques.
While working on a television programme, she was noticed by Philippe Alfonsi, who asked her to present a new magazine he was setting up with Maurice Dugowson
and invited her to help in its conception. Thus came to life Taxi, a talk show in which Catherine Belkhodja and her guests would sit a Cadillac driven by night around Paris. The programme was awarded a Sept d'or by the French television profession.
Following the success of this programme, Chris Marker
gave her the role of a journalist in Level Five
(1997). She then left for Algeria to make her first documentary “Reflet perdu du miroir”, the story of twin sisters who meet again after a long separation.
She has refocused her activities on writing and regularly publishes her texts in literary reviews such as Alter texto, Hakaî, Poète, Carquois, les Cahiers de Poésie, Gong.
KAREDAS
She has founded KAREDAS, a company dedicated to film production and publishing, and has launched a kaiseki collection dedicated to haiku. To inaugurate this collection, she has called on Yves Brillon, a Canadian haiku poet who won two awards in the 2005 and 2006 haiku competitions organised by KAREDAS and the Japanese Cultural Centre in Paris. Catherine Belkhodja is currently running a haiku writing workshop on the Psychologies magazine website, in which she has presented initiation keys to haiku writing.
Marco Polo magazine international haiku competition
This yearly competition set up in 2005 rewards the best haiku writers from ten countries.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
artist, actress and film director.
Early life
Catherine Belkhodja was born in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
to a Kabyle
Kabyle people
The Kabyle people are the largest homogeneous Algerian ethno-cultural and linguistical community and the largest nation in North Africa to be considered exclusively Berber. Their traditional homeland is Kabylie in the north of Algeria, one hundred miles east of Algiers...
Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
n father and a French mother on 15 April 1955. She first lived and studied in Algiers
Algiers
' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...
where she started to write her first short stories. She went on studying the theatre, music and fine arts, took her first steps in the cinema and left for Paris to read architecture, philosophy, town planning and ethnology
Ethnology
Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity.-Scientific discipline:Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct...
of Maghreb
Maghreb
The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...
.
She graduated in philosophy and began earning her living as a teacher, then read architecture, specialising in bioclimatics and working in the town planning department of the Paris Prefecture. She later took aesthetics with Olivier Revault d'Allones at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
University, prior to leaving for Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
to further her studies in solar architecture, then for Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
to work with Hassan Fathy
Hassan Fathy
Hassan Fathy was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick and traditional as opposed to western building designs and lay-outs...
on earth architecture.
Catherine Belkhodja is well travelled, with a passion for Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
which she has toured extensively: Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Burma, Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, Laos
Laos
Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
, Malaysia, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, the Maldives
Maldives
The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Hong-Kong (China), Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
and Macau
Macau
Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
(China). She has also toured Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
, Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
and South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
Career
Catherine Belkhodja’s activities range from the cinemaFilm
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
to conceptual art, as well as journalism, philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
and writing.
Cinema
On her return to Paris from Egypt, she enrolled at the Paris Academy of Dramatic Art and took her first steps in the cinema under Claire DeversClaire Devers
Claire Devers is a French director and writer. She was nominated for the 1987 César Award for Best Debut for directing Noir et Blanc .- Filmography :*Noir et Blanc *Chimère...
in "Noir et Blanc" (Black and White), Guy Gilles
Guy Gilles
Guy Gilles born Guy Chiche was a French film director.- Biography :He directed his first short film, Soleil éteint in 1958. He changed his surname to Gilles based on the name of his mother to create a pseudonym...
in "Nuit docile" (Docile night), Jean-Pierre Limosin in "L'autre nuit" (The other night) and Benoît Peeters
Benoît Peeters
Benoît Peeters is a comics writer, novelist, and critic. He has lived in Belgium since 1978.His best-known work is Les Cités Obscures, an imaginary world which mingles a Borgesian metaphysical surrealism with the detailed architectural vistas of the series' artist, François Schuiten...
in "Le compte-rendu" (The Report). She was the central character in Chris Marker’s Silent Movie
Silent Movie
Silent Movie is a 1976 satirical comedy film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976...
and Level Five
Level Five
Level Five is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in 2001.*Recorded in the USA and Mexico in 2001.-Track listing:#"Dangerous Curves" 5:38...
, in which she was said to epitomise a traveller in the monochromatic universe of silent movies.
She has given cinema courses in Lebanon.
Television
Catherine Belkhodja has collaborated on a number of television programmes, like Moi-je, Sexy folies, MosaïqueMosaïque
-External links:* at Discogs...
, Envoyé Spécial, Des racines et des ailes
Des racines et des ailes
Des racines et des ailes is a French television documentary series created by Patrick de Carolis and Patrick Charles in 1998. Des racines et des ailes is broadcast two Wednesdays per month on the France 3 television network and is rebroadcast on TV5. De Carolis hosted the series until he was...
, Faut pas rêver, Océaniques.
While working on a television programme, she was noticed by Philippe Alfonsi, who asked her to present a new magazine he was setting up with Maurice Dugowson
Maurice Dugowson
Maurice Dugowson was a French film director and screenwriter. His 1975 film Lily, aime-moi was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, his film F comme Fairbanks was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
and invited her to help in its conception. Thus came to life Taxi, a talk show in which Catherine Belkhodja and her guests would sit a Cadillac driven by night around Paris. The programme was awarded a Sept d'or by the French television profession.
Following the success of this programme, Chris Marker
Chris Marker
Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa...
gave her the role of a journalist in Level Five
Level Five (film)
Level Five is a 1997 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker and starring Catherine Belkhodja.-Cast:* Catherine Belkhodja as Laura* Kenji Tokitsu as Himself* Nagisa Oshima as Himself* Ju'nishi Ushiyama as Himself* Kinjo Shigeaki as Himself...
(1997). She then left for Algeria to make her first documentary “Reflet perdu du miroir”, the story of twin sisters who meet again after a long separation.
Writing
Catherine Belkhodja published her first newspaper articles in Le Sauvage and Sans frontières and wrote her first script on her return from Egypt. She has worked as a reporter for the Gamma Agency, has also collaborated with such magazines as L'autre journal and La légende du siècle, has founded a new magazine specialising in Asian issues and collaborated with gastronomy, tourist and travel magazines.She has refocused her activities on writing and regularly publishes her texts in literary reviews such as Alter texto, Hakaî, Poète, Carquois, les Cahiers de Poésie, Gong.
KAREDAS
She has founded KAREDAS, a company dedicated to film production and publishing, and has launched a kaiseki collection dedicated to haiku. To inaugurate this collection, she has called on Yves Brillon, a Canadian haiku poet who won two awards in the 2005 and 2006 haiku competitions organised by KAREDAS and the Japanese Cultural Centre in Paris. Catherine Belkhodja is currently running a haiku writing workshop on the Psychologies magazine website, in which she has presented initiation keys to haiku writing.
Marco Polo magazine international haiku competition
This yearly competition set up in 2005 rewards the best haiku writers from ten countries.
- 18 May 2005: inaugural award ceremony at the House of Japan in Paris under the aegis of the Japanese Embassy in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. - 25 November 2006: 2nd award ceremony at the Franco-Japanese Cultural Centre in Paris.
- 4 May 2007: 3rd award ceremony at the Tenri Centre, in the framework of the 9th edition of Printemps des Poètes whose theme was love.
Personal life
She has five children, all in the film industry or acting business:- Maïwenn Le BescoMaïwenn Le BescoMaïwenn |Île-de-France]]) is a French actress and film director.-Biography and career:She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja, who ushered her into the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Le Besco in her one-woman shows "Le Pois Chiche" and "I'm an...
, actress, scriptwriter and film director. - Jowan Le BescoJowan Le BescoBorn on 26 August 1981, Jowan Le Besco is a French actor, scriptwriter, director and chief cameraman. He is the second child in a family of five, the son of Franco-Algerian actress and journalist of Kabyl and Turco-Mongol descent, Catherine Belkhodja...
, actor, film director and chief cameraman. - Isild Le BescoIsild Le BescoIsild Le Besco is a French actress and the daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French and Algerian descent....
, actress, scriptwriter and film director. - Leonor GraserLéonor GraserLéonor Graser is a French actress, scriptwriter and film director.Graser is the daughter of Antoine Silber and Catherine Belkhodja, the Franco-Algerian actress and journalist of Kabyle and Turco-Mongol descent, the fourth child in a family of five. One of her sisters, Maïwenn Le Besco, is also an...
, actress, scriptwriter, researcher, lecturer at the Sorbonne University (Cultural Mediations Department). - Kolia LitscherKolia LitscherKolia Litscher is a French actor.Born to a Russian Swiss father and a French mother, he could not escape following in his parents’ footsteps. As a baby, he was already “on stage” in his cradle as his father, play director Hans-Peter Litscher and his actress mother Catherine Belkhodja were...
, actor.
Feature films
- 19801980 in film- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....
: La chanson du mal aimé by Claude WeiszClaude Weisz-Feature films:* Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel with Germaine Montéro, Lucien Raimbourg, Florence Giorgetti, Jean-François Delacour, Hélène Darche, Manuel Pinto, etc.Festival de Cannes 1973 - Quinzaine des réalisateurs... - 19811981 in film-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
: Le Cadeau by Michel LangMichel LangMichel Lang is a French film and television director, best remembered for his comedy films in the late 1970s and 1980s. Since 1990 he has directed predominantly for French television.-Filmography:* 1964 : Un tout autre visage... - 19821982 in film-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...
: Pour cent briques, t'as plus rien by Eduardo Molinaro - 19841984 in film-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
: Une maille à l'endroit, une maille à l'envers by Madeleine Laïk - 19861986 in film-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
: Nuit docile by Guy GillesGuy GillesGuy Gilles born Guy Chiche was a French film director.- Biography :He directed his first short film, Soleil éteint in 1958. He changed his surname to Gilles based on the name of his mother to create a pseudonym... - 19861986 in film-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
: Noir et blancNoir et BlancNoir et Blanc is a 1986 French film written and directed by Claire Devers.- Cast :*Francis Frappat, Antoine*Jacques Martial, Dominique*Catherine Belkhodja, la femme de ménage*Joséphine Fresson, Edith*Benoît Régent, l'hôtelier*Marc Berman, Roland...
by Claire DeversClaire DeversClaire Devers is a French director and writer. She was nominated for the 1987 César Award for Best Debut for directing Noir et Blanc .- Filmography :*Noir et Blanc *Chimère... - 19881988 in film-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...
: L'Autre nuit by Jean Pierre Limousin - 19961996 in filmMajor releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...
: The ProprietorThe ProprietorThe Proprietor is a 1996 film. It is a U.S.-French co-production Merchant Ivory film, directed by Ismail Merchant for Jeanne Moreau's request.-Starring:*Jeanne Moreau - Adrienne Mark*Sean Young - Virginia Kelly*Sam Waterston - Harry Bancroft...
by Ismail MerchantIsmail MerchantIsmail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala... - 19961996 in filmMajor releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...
: Level FiveLevel Five (film)Level Five is a 1997 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker and starring Catherine Belkhodja.-Cast:* Catherine Belkhodja as Laura* Kenji Tokitsu as Himself* Nagisa Oshima as Himself* Ju'nishi Ushiyama as Himself* Kinjo Shigeaki as Himself...
by Chris MarkerChris MarkerChris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa... - 19971997 in film-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...
: Silent MovieSilent MovieSilent Movie is a 1976 satirical comedy film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976...
by Chris MarkerChris MarkerChris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa... - 19981998 in film-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
: La Puce by Emmanuelle Bercot - 20012001 in filmThe year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
: Roberto SuccoRoberto SuccoRoberto Succo , was an Italian serial killer who murdered several people in Europe in 1987 and 1988.-Murders:Succo committed his first known murders on April 9, 1981 when he fatally stabbed his...
by Cédric KahnCédric KahnCédric Kahn is a French screenwriter and film director. His films include L'Ennui , from the Alberto Moravia novel Boredom and Red Lights , from the Georges Simenon novel...
Short films
- 19761976 in filmThe year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...
: L'Étourdie by Annie Bertini - 19801980 in film- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....
: Fragments du discours amoureux by Denis Lazerme - 19841984 in film-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
: Le Compte-rendu by Benoît PeetersBenoît PeetersBenoît Peeters is a comics writer, novelist, and critic. He has lived in Belgium since 1978.His best-known work is Les Cités Obscures, an imaginary world which mingles a Borgesian metaphysical surrealism with the detailed architectural vistas of the series' artist, François Schuiten... - 19851985 in film-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...
: Procès de l'oeuf by Catherine Belkhodja - 19891989 in film-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...
: Clip New Order by Chris MarkerChris MarkerChris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa... - 19901990 in filmThe year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....
: Yoyo by Catherine Belkhodja - Music score: Gabriel YaredGabriel YaredGabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella... - 19911991 in filmThe year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...
: Cinéma by Catherine Belkhodja - Music score: Gabriel Yared - 19911991 in filmThe year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...
: Place des VosgesPlace des VosgesThe Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris.It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.- History :...
with Isild Le BescoIsild Le BescoIsild Le Besco is a French actress and the daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French and Algerian descent....
and Kolia LitscherKolia LitscherKolia Litscher is a French actor.Born to a Russian Swiss father and a French mother, he could not escape following in his parents’ footsteps. As a baby, he was already “on stage” in his cradle as his father, play director Hans-Peter Litscher and his actress mother Catherine Belkhodja were... - 19931993 in filmThe year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...
: Parfaitement imparfaite by and with Catherine Belkhodja
Television
- 1981: Point de rencontre by Michel Favart
- 1983: Der Fahnder by Erwin Keusch (Bavaria)
- 1985: Studio Lavabo by de Patrick BouchiteyPatrick BouchiteyPatrick Bouchitey is a French actor and film director. He has appeared in 81 films and television shows since 1972. His film Cold Moon was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
(Canal +) - 1986: Double - Face by Serges Leroy
- 1987: Marc et Sophie by Stéphane Barbier and Guy Gingembre
- 1988: Les hommes de bonne volonté from a novel by Jules Romain
- 1989: L'héritage de la chouette by Chris MarkerChris MarkerChris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa...
- 1990: Berliner balade by Chris MarkerChris MarkerChris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa...
(voice) - 1987: Reflets perdus du miroir with Maïwenn Le BescoMaïwenn Le BescoMaïwenn |Île-de-France]]) is a French actress and film director.-Biography and career:She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja, who ushered her into the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Le Besco in her one-woman shows "Le Pois Chiche" and "I'm an...
and Isild Le BescoIsild Le BescoIsild Le Besco is a French actress and the daughter of Catherine Belkhodja. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French and Algerian descent....
Theatre appearances
- 1980: Bernarda’s House by Federico Garcia Lorca - Théâtre de La Villette - directed by Youssef Hamid
- 1982: Pheadra - Théâtre de l'Atopie - directed by Norbet Heinbûrger
- 1986: Le voleur d'autobus - Théâtre Yerma - directed by Youssef Hamid
Karedas
- L'ombre du caméléon by François RocheFrancois RocheFrancois Roche is a French architect.-Biography:François Roche was born on February 25, 1961 in Paris. He studied in Chalon-sur-Saône, and afterward entered scientific preparatory school in Lyon. He left that school prior to graduating, and enrolled at the school of architecture of Versailles...
(ArchitectureArchitectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, distributed by the Institut français d'architecture) - by Nam & Sor (essay)
- Peintures by Dominique Maraval (Art plastique collection)
- D'un instant à l'autre by Yves Brillon (HaikuHaiku' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"...
, Kaiseki collection) - Amas d'étoiles: collective work by award winners of MARCO POLO 2005 haikuHaiku' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"...
competition (HaikuHaiku' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"...
- Kaiseki collection) - L'heure du thé" by Diane Descôteaux (HaikuHaiku' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"...
, Kaiseki collection)
Personal works
- Nuits blanches aux roches noires, Karedas, Kaiseki collection, Paris, 2007.
Collective works
- Haïdjins francophones, Karedas, Kaiseki collection, Paris, December 2007
- Amas d’étoiles, Karedas, February 2007, Paris
- Regards de femmes, AFH, to be published, Lyon, 2008
- Dix vues du haiku, AFH to be published, Paris 2007
- La rumeur du coffre à jouets, L'Iroli to be published, Paris 2008
Literary rewiews
- Forcer à quitter (tanka), Haikai, Canada, June 2006
- Roches noires (juinku), Haikai, Canada, December 2006
- L’araignée de fer, Carquois n°18, Canada, June 2006
- Les félins attaquent les ombres (hankasen with Diane Descôteaux), Haikai, Canada, August 2006
- Rêve d’octobre en juillet (kasen with Diane Descôteaux), Haikai, Canada, October 2006
- Sic vitam hominum (kasen with Diane Descôteaux), Haikai, Canada, December 2006
- Talon d’Achille (with Diane Descôteaux), Haikai, Canada, April 2007
- Poumon cru (jusanbutsu with Pascale Baud), Haikai, Canada, October 2006
- Mélodie en sous-sol (jusanbutsu with Pascale Baud), Haikai, Canada, December 2006
- Haïkus allemands, traductions et commentaires, Gong n°12, July 2006
- Petite leçon de haïku, Psychologies Magazine, Paris, January 2007
- Self-bind mini-book (Conception), Marco Polo magazine n°12, Paris, November 2006
- Écho d’Asie, haiku press review, Marco Polo magazine n°12, Paris, November 2006
- Haïku : dans l’air du temps, Marco Polo magazine n°13, Paris, September 2007
- Les cahiers de poésie 6, Luxemburg, 2006 - ISBN 2-916090-68-1
- Les cahiers de poésie 7, Luxemburg, 2006 - ISBN 2-916090-71-1
- Revue Alter texto, New Caledonia, April 2006
External links
- http://catherine.belkhodja.actricesdefrance.org/: her filmography on actricesdefrance.org
- http://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/327679/catherine-belkhodja: her filmography on Unifrance French cinema promotion in English
- http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=215015: filmography on Movies. New York Times
- : filmography on DVD toiles with photos
- catherinebelkhodja.free.fr: her personal website
- Interview de Catherine Belkhodja: an interview by Michelle Levieux for L'HumanitéL'HumanitéL'Humanité , formerly the daily newspaper linked to the French Communist Party , was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the French Section of the Workers' International...
- Marco Polo magazine