Henri Herré

Henri Herré studied philosophy with Gilles Deleuze at Paris IV Sorbonne and has a master’s degree in cinema from Toulouse Jean Jaurès.

He has written and directed four short films and two feature-length fictions, as well as scientific and archival films for Arte and France 3 and 5. Since 2004, he has shot several documentaries in France, the United States, and Poland.

His works in progress include a series of films on the chemical arts of photographic printing. For the past ten years, he has also filmed over 70 hours of documentation on the working methods of the philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, which have been shown as installations at various galleries and museums.

From 1990 through 2009, Herré taught at the French national film school, FEMIS, as well as other schools of fine arts. From 2010, he has taught at various schools of architecture, including Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Warsaw Polytechnic, and the École Nationale d’Architecture in Rabat. He is currently Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine, where he teaches methods of analysis for recording sensitive and personal experiences of sites, monuments, and buildings of all countries, periods, functions, and scales using smart phone videography.

DOCUMENTARY FILMOGRAPHY (selective)
LA TABLE DES MATIÈRES - in progress - 80h 
VIVRE AVEC LES LIVRES - 2015 - 52’ 
WAR SAW - 2013 - 26’ 
WE - 2010 - 87’ 
FERNAND RAYNAUD, COMIQUE DES 30 GLORIEUSES - 2006 - 52’ 
ARCHIMÈDE - 2001/2004 - 100’ 
NEBLINA MONTAGNES DES BRUMES - 1999 - 52’ 
PENDANT CE TEMPS, LES CHEROKEES - 1990 - 60’