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Damian (also Damien) Pettigrew (March 10, 1963) is a Canadian filmmaker,
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, producer,
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, and multimedia artist, best known for his cinematic portraits of
Balthus Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his image ...
,
Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most ...
, and
Jean Giraud Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
. Released theatrically in fifteen countries, his film '' Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' won the Rockie Award for Best Documentary at the Banff World Television Festival and was nominated for the Prix Arte at the
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, Europe's equivalent of the
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.


Biography

Pettigrew's mother was a child psychologist. His father, Dr. J.F. Pettigrew, was the first Canadian surgeon to diagnose the heart condition known as
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in 1953. After reading English, French and Italian Literature at the universities of Bishop's, Oxford, and Glasgow (where he discovered the work of Scottish film director
Bill Douglas William Gerald Douglas (17 April 1934 – 18 June 1991) was a Scottish film director best known for the trilogy of films about his early life. Biography Born in Newcraighall on the outskirts of Edinburgh, he was brought up initially by his ...
), Pettigrew studied cinema at IDHEC in Paris. At the Cinémathèque Française, he met
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and Steve Lacy and began frequenting their artists' circle. If his work is influenced by Gysin's celebrated
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, the profound and lasting effect on his life was his friendship with
Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and Tragicomedy, tr ...
. In 1983, Pettigrew launched a remake of ''Film'' (film) (1965) starring
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, with Beckett as consultant and
Raoul Coutard Raoul Coutard (16 September 1924 – 8 November 2016) was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the Nouvelle Vague period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard. Coutard also shot films for New Wa ...
as cameraman. Kinski’s scheduling, however, proved intractable. Beckett next proposed
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for the role but the project was abandoned when Lemmon explained he was incapable of competing with
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(who first played the roles of O and E in 1965). With Beckett and Pettigrew in 1984, the actor
David Warrilow David Warrilow (28 December 1934 – 17 August 1995) was an English actor best known as one of the "finest interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work".Cited in Ackerley, C.J., and Gontarski, Stan, ''The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett'', New Yor ...
initiated ''Take 2'', a tentative sequel to ''Film'', but the project remained unfinished at the playwright's death in 1989. In 1990, Pettigrew settled in
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to devote himself to filmmaking. In 1999, he co-founded Portrait et Compagnie with French producer Olivier Gal. He spends a short part of each year on Lake Memphremagog in the
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of
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.


Work

A recognized authority on
Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most ...
, his portrait of the maestro, '' Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'', won the prestigious ''Rockie Award'' at the 2002 Banff World Television Festival, receiving excellent reviews in ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Newsweek International'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' The Herald'', ''
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'' (London), and newspapers throughout Europe, Brazil, Australia and Japan. Nominated for Best Documentary at the
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, Europe's equivalent of the
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, the film established his reputation as a director of "extraordinarily controlled" feature documentaries. The interview transcripts were published in 2003 as '' I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon'' with 125 illustrations and a preface by Fellini biographer
Tullio Kezich Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for ''Corriere della Sera'' and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fell ...
. The Italian director pays particular homage to Tullio Pinelli, his co-scriptwriter on such classics as '' I Vitelloni'', ''
La Strada ''La strada'' () is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother ...
'', and '' La Dolce Vita''. Other films include portraits of
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,
Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...
, and
Jean Giraud Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
. His '' Balthus Through the Looking Glass'', a study of the controversial French painter, was filmed in Super 16 over a 12-month period in Switzerland, Italy, France and the Moors of England. Esteemed by Guy Davenport, it was honored in a cycle of film classics by
Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films '' ...
,
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, and
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at the
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(Cologne, Germany) in September 2007. In 2010, Pettigrew directed ''MetaMoebius'', a cinematic essay on French graphic designer Moebius aka
Jean Giraud Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
for the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain and CinéCinéma Classic. His documentary, ''The Irene Hilda Story'', based on the European
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tradition during the Second World War as experienced by French stars Irene and Bernard Hilda, Micheline Presle and Henri Salvador, was broadcast in France and Germany by ARTE France that same year. A mid-career retrospective of his work in film was held at the Centre des Arts d'
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from 5 October 2011 to 28 March 2012. His informal discussion with
Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoun ...
(conducted in the fall of 2003 at Fårö Island) on the Swedish director's affinities with Samuel Beckett's work was published in ''L’Âge d’or du cinéma européen'' in 2011. In 2012, he completed ''Inside Italo'' (''Lo specchio di Calvino''), a feature-length study of
Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...
for ARTE France in co-production with Italy’s
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and the
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. Starring Italian actor
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and distinguished literary critic
Pietro Citati Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-ye ...
, the docu-fiction uses in-depth conversations filmed at the writer's Rome penthouse a year before his death in 1985 and rare footage from RAI, BBC, and INA (
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) television archives. ARTE and SKY ARTE (Italy) broadcast the 52-minute version on 19 December 2012 and 14 October 2013, respectively. Pettigrew is currently directing the first feature-length documentary on Carolyn Carlson, the France-based American dancer and choreographer. Begun in January 2012 and continuing into 2021, the film focuses on the creation of several major works by Carlson including ''Synchronicity'' (2012), ''Dialogue with Rothko'' (2013) and ''Woman in a Room'' with Diana Vishneva, principal dancer with the
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and the
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, ''Black Over Red'' (2017) with Marie-Agnès Gillot, star dancer at the Paris Opéra Ballet, as well as her latest choreography titled ''The Tree'' (2021).


In development

In development are two feature films: ''Darkness Visible'' starring Tim Roth and Eriq Ebouaney, and ''Beckett'', based on the director's experience working with
Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and Tragicomedy, tr ...
. File:Fellini on set6.jpg,
Fellini Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most i ...
on film set (1992) File:Dpettigrew.jpg, Pettigrew on film set (1992) File:BalthusFace.jpg,
Balthus Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his image ...
on film set (1996) File:Tullio Pinelli by Damian Pettigrew 2002.jpg, Tullio Pinelli at his home in Rome (2002) File:GiraudPettigrew2010.jpg,
Jean Giraud Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
at ''La Coupole'' in Paris (2010)


Selected filmography


Writer-Director

* ''Fellini ou l'amour de la vie'' (1993) * ''Mr Gir et Mike S. Blueberry'' (1999) * ''L'histoire d'Irène'' / ''The Irene Hilda Story'' (2009) * ''Fellini : 8½ en six mémos'' / ''Fellini's in 6 Memos'' (2009) * ''Ionesco : Autour du'' Roi se meurt ''avec Michel Bouquet'' (2009) * ''MetaMoebius : Giraud-Moebius, métamorphoses'' (2010) *''The Rome Trilogy'': **'' Balthus Through the Looking Glass'' / ''Balthus de l'autre côté du miroir'' (1996) **'' Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' / ''Fellini, sono un gran bugiardo'' / ''Fellini, je suis un grand menteur'' (2002) **''Inside Italo'' / ''Lo specchio di Calvino''
''Dans la peau d'Italo Calvino''
(2012) * ''Carolyn Carlson, Dare to Risk'' (2022) * ''Fellini Politicus'' (2021)


Producer

*''Ionesco : Conversations autour d'une caméra'' (Ionesco interviews) *''Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' (Fellini interviews) *''Inside Italo'' (Calvino interviews) *''Allain Leprest'' *''Jean-Jacques Annaud'' (Annaud interviews) * ''Carolyn Carlson''


Screenplays

*''Les Yeux de ma mâitresse'' (2005 - funded by Centre National de la Cinématographie) *''Inside Italo'' (2012 - funded by Centre National de la Cinématographie and
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) *''Darkness Visible'' (2018) *''The World is a Wildflower'' (2019) *''Sam and Suzanne'' (2020)


Video art

*''40RO'' (2003) *''4 Faces 5 Voices'' (2018) *''Marlène'' (2021)


Selected publications

:''This bibliography is focused on the published interviews that were filmed, produced and directed by Pettigrew in collaboration with the following artists:'' * Fellini, Federico & Pettigrew, Damian: ** ''Fellini, je suis un grand menteur''. Paris: L'Arche, 1994 (). ** ''Fellini, eu sou um grande mentiroso''. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1995. ** ''Fellini, Ich bin ein großer Lügner''. Munich: Verlag der Autoren, 1995 (). ** 'Fellini: Creation and the Artist' in ''Projections 4''. London: Faber and Faber, 1995 (). ** 'Fellini et l'entretien avec Damian Pettigrew' in ''Cahiers Jungiens de Psychanalyse''. (Paris, Issue 104, 2002.) ** ''Fellini, sono un gran bugiardo''. Prefazione di
Tullio Kezich Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for ''Corriere della Sera'' and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fell ...
. Roma: Elleu, 2003 (). ** '' I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon''. Preface by
Tullio Kezich Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for ''Corriere della Sera'' and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fell ...
. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003 (). ** ''Federico Fellini. Sou um grande mentiroso. Uma conversa com Damian Pettigrew''. Lisboa: Fim de Século, 2008. * Calvino, Italo & Pettigrew, Damien: ** ''
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Interviews - The Art of Fiction, No. 130''. (Issue 124, Fall 1992). ** "Sogno e delirio. Il Calvino segreto" in ''
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'', 10 September 1995. ** ''Uno scrittore pomeridiano''. Intervista sull'arte della narrativa a cura di William Weaver e Damien Pettigrew con un ricordo di
Pietro Citati Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-ye ...
. Roma: Minimum fax, 2003 ().


Essays on cinema

* « Ascenseur (les objets felliniens) » in ''Fellinicittà'' (ed. J-M. Méjean). Paris: Editions de la Transparence, 2009 (). * « Trois films, trois sourires : quelques regards sur Bergman » in ''L’Age d’or du cinéma Européen 1950-1970'' (ed. Denitza Bantcheva). Chatou: Editions du Revif, 2011.().


Interviews online

* « Les dernières interrogations de Pierre Emmanuel » in ''Le Monde'' (7 October 1984
Interview
with
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* « Le Méxique et le serpent à plumes »
Interview
with
Jean-Claude Carrière Jean-Claude Carrière (; 17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing '' Heureux Anniversaire'' (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary ...
* "The World Outside the Self" in ''CV/11'', IV, 2 (Spring 1979), 26-3
Interview
with Ralph Gustafson


Awards and festivals

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UNESCO Grand Prize - ''Best Documentary *1997 for ''Balthus Through the Looking Glass'' Best Photography Prize - Lausanne International Festival of Art Films *1997 for ''Balthus Through the Looking Glass'' Official Selection - 8th Marseille International Film Festival (Vue sur les docs) *1997 for ''Balthus Through the Looking Glass'' Official Selection - 56th
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*2002 for ''Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' (''selected in over 40 international festivals including Edinburgh, Moscou, Amsterdam, Toronto and Montréal'') Nomination Prix Arte for Best Documentary -
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*2002 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar'' Coup de Cœur Award - 13th Marseille International Film Festival (Vue sur les docs) *2002 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar'' Rockie Award for Best Arts Documentary - Banff World Television Festival *2002 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar'' Homage to Fellini 1993-2003 - Cannes International Film Festival, Cinémathèque Française and
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Fellini Foundation *2003 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar'' Official Selection - 1st
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Panorama of European Film *2004 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar '' Official Selection - Toronto Jewish Film Festival (''selected in 10 international festivals'') *2010 for ''The Irene Hilda Story'' Official Selection - 14th
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*2012 for ''Inside Italo'' Italo Calvino - 90th Anniversary 1923-2013 -
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*2013 for ''Inside Italo'' Member, The Society of Multimedia Authors of France (SCAM), The Society of Authors of France (SGDL), and ONE Campaign


See also

*
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* Video art *
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Notes and references


External links


Newsweek International
Michael J. Agovino: "Directing the Director"
PopMatters
Jonathan Kiefer: "Tales Out of School"
The New Yorker
David Denby: "Monstres sacrés"
The New York Times
A.O. Scott: "Putting Fellini in Front of the Lens"
St Louis Post-Dispatch
Harper Barnes: "A Work of Art"
RAIlibro.It
Stas' Gawronski : "Il testamento artistico di Federico Fellini"
dsonline.it
Mario Verdone: "Un eccezionale documento biografico"
Indiewire
Interviewed by Wendy Mitchell
Radio National Australia
Interviewed by Julie Rigg
Radio France
Entretien avec Caroline Caldier
The Paris Review
Italo Calvino interviewed by Damien Pettigrew

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