Damien Aimé Dupont

Director and Screenwriter

Paris, France

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About Damien

After a bachelor's degree and a masters degree in cinema in Paris, I worked in the television and cinema for a couple of years. I wrote a science-fiction series Hyper Nuit for FranceTélévision (a popular public TV channel). This work received a financial aid from SACD (société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, an organization which assists authors). And I made Jean Rollin: the stray dreamer. The film has been presented with success in numerous film festivals in France and internationally. It was released on DVD in Europe and bought by CNC (Centre National du Cinéma - National Cinema Center, a public organization).

Now, I have just finished a movie on the musician Jackson C. Frank. Fascinated by his enigmatic and complex figure, I decided to dedicate him my new documentary. It remains of this man only 12 seconds of footage filmed during a concert, about sixty songs and dozens of photos. Thus began a real investigation on this tragic destiny. You can watch it in many festivals around the world.

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Blues Run the Game: The Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank (Trailer)

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Blues Run the Game: The Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank (2023)
Film by Burning Rooster / Damien Aimé Dupont (Documentary, Drama, Biography and Music) Amidst Soho’s flourishing folk scene of the mid-60s, Jackson C. Frank released a masterpiece album, produced by fellow American expat Paul Simon. Jackson was close to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel and was a vital musical influence for so many, like Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Counting Crows, Graham Coxon, John Mayer and Laura Marling. However, after the release of his album, he disappeared without a trace. With physical disabilities and severe PTSD as a result of a childhood tragedy, his mental health deteriorated. While absent, his musical influence greatly increased over the years. That’s when a young music fan decided to seek him out. This film follows in Frank's footsteps to unknot the threads of a unique artist with a dire fate.
The Story of French Fantasy Cinema (2019)
Television by Burning Rooster / Damien Aimé Dupont (Documentary, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi and 1 More) Wishing to extend the reflection I started with Jean Rollin, I got on with writing a project about French fantastic cinema. I gave myself the challenge of narrating 100 years of cinema in only 52 minutes. The objective was met, co-produced by Ciné+, The Story of French Fantasy Cinema received selective grants from the CNC as well as Procirep/Angoa!
Jean Rollin, the Stray Dreamer (2011)
Film by Purple Milk / Damien Aimé Dupont (Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Horror and 2 More) Who is Jean Rollin? A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. An artist who has worked with Marguerite Duras for his first film. A director's career singular and unique in French Cinema, with films overtly fantastic, surreal, poetic-disconcerting. Constantly hammered by the critics, his films finally started to receive some recognition in France, while many fans worship him already in Europe and the United States. Jean Rollin signs a marginal and unknown work marked by death and nostalgia, and whose main obsession is the time, that of the wandering and dreams. Jean Rollin died in December 2010 at the age of 72. This documentary is the portrait of the real artist, the last surrealist, a poet who created his very own dreamworld. A tribute to a unique movie director.

Education

Université Paris 8
Cifap