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Julien Theves

Julien Theves

Director and author

Career

French director and author

Julien Thèves was born in 1972.

He published Précarité in 1999 and Son Histoire in 2000 with Balland/le Rayon, a collection created by the writer Guillaume Dustan. Since then, he has authored Le Pays l’où ne revient jamais (Christophe Lucquin éditeur, 2018; Marguerite-Duras prize, reissued in paperback in 2020 – Mon Poche). He also published Les Rues bleues in 2020 with Buchet/Chastel.

After his documentary film made in 2005 at the Ateliers Varan (La ville continue), he turned to radio and produced numerous audio documentaries for France Culture (La série documentaire, Toute une vie, Villes-Mondes, etc.).

In cinema, he co-directed the feature documentary Temps Morts with Vincent Dieutre, which was released in theaters in 2022.

He is also the co-screenwriter of Walden, a film by Bojena Horackova, released in theaters in 2022.

He regularly writes for Le Monde in the Travel section and hosts meetings with artists at the Maison des métallos (Paris 11th district).

Filmography

Réalisation

Autour d'un sentiment de solitude

documentaire radio, 2015, France Culture.

Ecriture

Trilogie de nos vies défaites

de Vincent Dieutre, 2015, 94', produit par le Fresnoy et la région Nord

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