Arnaud des Pallières
Arnaud des Pallières (born 1961) is a French filmmaker whose work crosses fiction, documentary, and essay, often weaving image, sound, and text into densely layered constructions. Born in Paris and active in theatre from age sixteen, he studied at La Fémis, where he filmed Gilles Deleuze's celebrated lecture "What is the creative act?" After more than a dozen short films he made his feature debut with the Holocaust-memory essay Drancy Avenir (1996), followed by Adieu (2003) with Michaël Lonsdale, Aurore Clément, Laurent Lucas, and Olivier Gourmet. His historical drama Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013), adapted from Heinrich von Kleist, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. He continues to teach and work at the intersection of documentary essay and narrative cinema.