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L’Île Seguin, de Renault à Pinault

Frédéric Biamonti

Frédéric Biamonti was born in 1964. He first studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), before turning to cinema. He continued his studies at the FEMIS national film school, and then got involved in film and documentary production, working in particular as an assistant director for documentary productions for Public Television (France Télévisions). He also collaborated on fiction films by Arnaud and Jean Marie Larrieu, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, Bruno Bontzolakis and Frédéric Videau.
From 1990, he lived between Paris and the United States, first in New York where he studied photography at the International Center of Photography, then in Chicago where he taught in the Cinema and Video Department of the School of the Art Institute. In Paris, he also teaches in the Cinema Department of the University of Paris 8.
Since 2000, he has made his own documentary films, working first on American subjects: Huntsville, the penal colony (2001), Sun City, the antechamber of paradise (2003), The lessons of Watergate (2004). Films on urban planning and architecture followed one after the other, starting with L’île Seguin, from Renault to Pinault in 2002. Since Destin des Halles (2005), he has regularly collaborated on these subjects with the architect and critic Françoise Fromonot.
History is a recurring preoccupation in his work, as evidenced by the biographical films devoted to the politician Jean Lecanuet (2005) or the pamphleteer writer Jean-Edern Hallier (2006), or more recently to the historian Arlette Farge (2009).

Génerique - L’Île Seguin, de Renault à Pinault

Une coproduction Antoine Martin Production
France 5
Pôle Image de Haute-Normandie
Centre National du Cinéma
Procirep & Angoa