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Patrick Genet

Patrick Genet

Sound engineer

Career

French sound engineer

After studying biology and going about in a few odd jobs in Paris and England, Patrick Genet worked as a runner at the Comédie Française, and went on to follow two Afdas sound training courses.

From 1978 to 1985 he learned about filmmaking and sound through his own practice at the Comité du Film Ethnographique with Jean Rouch. He has since then be working as a sound assistant and sound engineer on various short fiction, documentary and experimental films by directors such as Jean-Louis Benoit, Philippe Boussard, Jean-Pierre Boyer, Leos Carax, Pierre Desquines, Pascal Kané, Elisabeth Kapnist, Patrice Kirchhofer, Christophe Loizillon, Jérôme de Missolz, Jacques Nichet, Vivian Ostrovsky, Jean-Loïc Portron, Catherine Quesemand, Karola Ritter, Martine Rousset, Claire Simon, Louis Skorecki, Lionel Soukaz, Deva Sugeeta, Jean-Pierre Thorn, Jean-Pierre Zirn. .

He has been a member of the Ateliers Varan since 1982.

Filmography

sound engineer

Petit matin

dir. Christophe Loizillon, fiction, France, 2013, 34’

A l’ombre de la République

dir. Stephane Mercurio, documentary, France, 2011

Soulages, le noir et la lumière

dir. Jean-Noël Cristiani, documentary, France, 2008, 52’

A coté

dir. Stephane Mercurio, documentary, France, 2006, 90’

Daddy, daddy

dir. Pierre Hodgson, documentary, USA, 2005, 90 ‘

Le corps sublimé

dir. Jérôme de Missolz, trilogie sur la photographie, 2003

Dans le silence de la grotte Chauvet

dir. Pierre Oscar Lévy, documentary, France, 2002, 90'

Histoire d’un secret

dir. Mariana Otero, documentary, France, 2002, 90'

Sur les rives de l’étang de Berre

dir. Jérôme de Missolz & Pierre Hodgson, documentary, 1998, 90'

Les mains

dir. Christophe Loizillon, documentary, France, 1996, 20'

Les vitraux de Soulages

dir. Jean-Noël Cristiani Documentary, France, 1994, 50’

Terra d’Avellaneda

dir. Daniele Incalcaterra, documentary, 1992

You’ll never walk alone

dir. Jérôme de Missolz et Evelyne Ragot, documentary, 1992, 90’

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité et puis après…

dir. Jean Rouch, fiction, France, 1989

Solange, Marguerite, Solange

dir. Daniele Incalcaterra, documentary, 1986, 48’

Adrien’s story

dir. Jean Pierre Denis, fiction, France, 1980, 95’

Camera d’Or, Cannes Films Festival (1981)

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