French director and screenwriter, born in Neuilly sur Seine (France)...

Nicolas Klotz began his career as an assistant and moved behind the camera in 1987, when a documentary entitled Pandit Ravi Shankar was released. It is a portrait of the famous sitar player that he follows during his musical travels through India and Europe.

He adapted several novels and founded La Compagnie de l'Asile in 1995. Then came two biographical films, one devoted to James Carter, in 1998, the other to Brad Mehldau, in 1999.

He adapted the embryos of what would become Paria and La Blessure respectively. He tackles delicate social issues with aesthetics and decency, the fate of the homeless in one case, the cause of illegal immigrants in the other. It is worth noting in passing that a website, sponsored by Arte France, Asile de nuit et Asile de jour, was created for this occasion.

Nicolas Klotz is a professor at La Fémis. He lives and works in collaboration with Élisabeth Perceval. They have just finished Low Life, a film about youth struggling with a world enchanted by control. Between their films, to accompany and develop Élisabeth Perceval's writing work, they also make installations together - notably at the CCCB in Barcelona, at the Ferme du Buisson, and in art schools. They are currently working on their next two films: Ceremony, to be shot in Barcelona, and Les Talons Rouges, for which writer Yannick Haenel is writing the screenplay, two fantastic films about the French Revolution.

Nicolas Klotz has just shot Strindberg's Mademoiselle Julie with Juliette Binoche for France Télévisions and the Avignon Festival.

(Source: Aurora Films)