Short biography:
Laury Granier, born in 1963 in Paris (France).
Doctor in arts and sciences of arts (cinema-television-audiovisual) of the Sorbon University.
Filmaker: principal film: La momie à mi-mots, 35 mm color, 1996 with Carolyn Carlson as a main actress, Jean Rouch, Philippe Léotard... Projected in "avant-première"at the "Cinémathèque française", at the "Cinémathèque Universitaire" and at "l’Ecole Normale Supérieure" in Paris. First price Andrej Tarkovski for "the artistic creation and the cinematographical language" at the 4th Congress of mass-media in Buenos Aires (Argentinia). Selected at the Cinema Nuevo International Films Festival in Pesaro (Italy), at the XVI Internaional Films Festival of Istanbul (Turkey), at the X International Festival of Cinema ant Television Eurovisioni in Villa Medici, Rome (Italy), at the Art films festival in Beaubourg in Paris (France), at the International Film Festival of New Cinema in Split (Croatia), at Messages to Man, International Films Festival in Saint-Petersbourg (Russia), at the XX International Festival of Pedagogiques and arts films at the U. N. E. S. C. O. in Paris (France) and at the International Festival of Arts Films in Montréal (Canada), and at the Eisenstein International Film festival (Germany) and other europeans festivals. It was also projected in London (at the French Institute), in Bern (at the Modern Art Museum) and so on.
La momie à mi-mots was projected daily in Paris during five months. It was projected in others cities in France and in Italy. It will be projected in others cities in Europe.
Videomaker: various art videoclips: Les trois couleurs d’Ocumicho, first price and special price
at "la vidéothèque de Paris". Opened the festival East meets West of arts films in Essen
(Germany) with other clips Roger Van Rogger, l’Abécédaire, Sculpteur de sables. Video
Documentaries: L’ovnîmes seen at the french television and in festivals with others documentaries.
Painter: Various exhibitions in France and Europe.
1990: - at the Café Le Loft in Paris exhibition of drawings and pastels
- in Art et Buffet in Paris exhibition of portraits and drawings
- in Noisy-le-Grand, in "l'Espace Michel Simon", collective exhibition organised with
Hugues Bourdin gallerie from Paris on the thema of "danse"
1991: - conception and drawing of an affiche for the XIII Etnographic Films Festival at the
Man Museum
1992-1996: - water colours and marblings for the film La momie à mi-mots with Carolyn
Carlson, Jean Rouch, Philippe Léotard, Anne-Laure Meury etc...
- Edition et diffusion of a post-card by the Lauriflam editions (Paris) from a
miniature Autoportrait - La momie (for the invitation to the projection of La momie à mi-mots at the French Cinémathèque.
1997: - organizer (responsable of the selection) of a collective exhibition Tentatives vers une
nouvelle abstraction (5 italian artists and 5 french artists at the Animation center of
La Jonquière in Paris) and participation to this exhibition as an artist.
- The same exhibition in Rome at the L. I. A. center.
- Edition of a post-card of a miniature Joyeux anniversaire!
1998: - exhibition of 18 pictures at the Modern Art Museum in Bern (Switzerland) with the
projection of La momie à mi-mots.
1999: - Exhibition at the Sorbonne University, department of Arts and Arts Sciences, Paris.
- Exhibition in L'Orangerie du jardin du Luxembourg invited by the French Senat.