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    Claire Simon is a French screenwriter, actress, cinematographer, editor, and director. Early life and education. Simon was born in Britain and raised in southern France. She grew up in a family of writers and painters. [1] She took courses in anthropology and studied Arabic and Berber. [2] Career.

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    CLAIRE SIMON was born in Britain, but spent most of her childhood in the Var. A student of ethnology, Arabic and Berber. She made her first self-taught short films at the beginning of 1980s. Her time at the Ateliers Varan proved decisive, where she discovered the virtues of direct cinema.

  4. Aug 4, 2023 · Her most recent, nearly three-hour-long documentary, Our Body, captures Simon, and female, and transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) patients seeking medical care at Paris’ Hôpital Tenon. While it can be scary for them to go to a doctor due to systemic discrimination, Simon delivers a visceral, emphatic portrait of patients undergoing ...

  5. Aug 4, 2023 · Simon, who narrates the film beginning with the admission of her own anxieties walking past the cemetery that borders the featured hospital, deepens the affect of “Our Body.” The film is not...

  6. Aug 30, 2023 · Claire Simon’s Body of Brilliant Work The French filmmaker’s new documentary, set in a Parisian hospital, captures birth, death and everything in between.

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  7. Aug 5, 2019 · Universal questions within slices of life, ethnologist and filmmaker Claire Simon explores the poetry of daily life with a realist eye that wanders between documentaries and works of fiction.

  8. Mar 1, 2019 · Simon focuses on La Fémis’s infamously grueling admissions process—a series of exams, technical challenges, and interviews worthy of a reality show—as a microcosm of the institution at large.