Christophe Bisson is an international film director. He created, with the American filmmaker Maryann De leo, the documentary ''

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'' for HBO Studios and the

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. He is a well-known artist based in

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, France. ''White Horse'' features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to his home in

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for the first time in 20 years. He was evacuated from the city of

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, Ukraine (then part of the

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) in 1986 due to the

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. The main character was contacted by the filmmakers when the film debuted. His wife informed them in February 2008 that he had died from a heart attack shortly after the completion of the film. His wife and one daughter survived him. In 2011, Bisson made a short documentary fil
Road movie
in a French psychiatric institution. It was selected in the French competition at the 2011

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Marseille festival. In 2012, Bisson made another short documentary film
Liquidation
in the same institution. It was selected at the 2013 Cinéma du réel festival in Paris. The same year, he mad
Au monde
(into the world) produced by Triptyque films
Claire Atherton
was the editor. The film was selected at thehttp://www.fidmarseille.org/index.php/en/
/ref> in the French competition. Jean-Pierre Rehm, Director of FID Marseille, wrote: "This film is also about speech, its privation and its rough rediscovery. Following an amputation of the larynx, a man named Joël Perrotte decided to reinforce his muteness by hiding in the basement of his house. It is the story of this retreat from the world, and his subsequent resurfacing, that he recounts in detail, facing the screen, with a strange, mechanical voice which he had firstly to master and then recognise as his own".

References

External links

* http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whitehorse/index.html *

White Horse (film) ''White Horse'' is a short documentary by filmmakers Maryann DeLeo and Christophe Bisson that features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to his Ukraine home for the first time in twenty years. Evacuated from the city of Pripyat, Ukraine in 1986 due ...

* https://archive.today/20130414125802/http://www.cinemadureel.org/fr/programme/competition-internationale-courts-metrages/liquidation * http://www.fidmarseille.org/dynamic/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=944&Itemid=146&lang=french * https://web.archive.org/web/20111221020021/http://www.2angles.org/expositions/2008-2009/transitives/Christophe%20Bisson/Christophe%20Bisson.htm French film directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{France-film-director-stub