F.J. Ossang
Birthday: 1956-08-07 Place of Birth: Parigi, Francia
Synopsis
F.J. Ossang (born 1956) studied philosophy and law before starting his artistic career in the middle of the 1970s with the publication of poetic texts. He debuted as filmmaker in 1982 with La dernière énigmem, his graduation film at La Fémis, the film and television school of PSL Research University. His debut feature The Case of the Morituri Divisions premiered in Cannes in 1985. Treasure of Bitch Islands (1990), his second feature, won the Best Film Award in Belfort. In 1998, a retrospective about Ossang's work featured at Festival de La Rochelle after which more festivals followed.
Acting
Dharma Guns
The film opens on a water-skiing accident - a girl (Délie) drives a speedboat and pulls a young man (Stan). They are both challenging their own limits when a crash occurs... Stan wakes up from a coma after this serious accident, to find out that genealogists are looking for an individual whose identity corresponds to his. Instead of asking himself questions about this testamentary filiation, he subscribes for Professor Starkov's legacy, and embarks for the country of Las Estrellas... Purging odyssey where intuition and telepathy accelerates the journey in time. Dharma Guns revisits the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice fighting with the tyranny of Time-God...
Doctor Chance
Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of Chile. - IFFR
The Adventures of Eddie Turley
Poetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and white and freely inspired on Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.
