Christophe Bisson is an international film director. He created, with
the American filmmaker Maryann De leo, the documentary White Horse for
HBO Studios and the Discovery Channel. He is a well-known artist based
in Caen, France.White Horse features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to
his home in Ukraine for the first time in 20 years. He was evacuated
from the city of Pripyat, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) in
1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster. The main character was contacted
by the film makers when the film debuted. His wife informed them in
February 2008 that he had died from a heart attack shortly after the
completion of the film. He was survived by his wife and one daughter.
In 2011, Bisson made a short documentary film, Road movie, in a French
psychiatric institution. It was selected in the French competition at
the 2011 FID Marseille festival. In 2012, Bisson made another short
documentary film, Liquidation, in the same institution. It was
selected at the 2013 Cinéma du réel festival in Paris. The same
year, he made Au monde (into the world) produced by Triptyque films.
Claire Atherton was the editor. The film was selected at the in the
French competition. Jean-Pierre Rehm, Director of FID Marseille wrote
about it : "This film is also about speech, its privation and its
rough rediscovery. Following an amputation of the larynx, a man named
Joël Perrotte decided to reinforce his muteness by hiding in the
basement of his house. It is the story of this retreat from the world,
and his subsequent resurfacing, that he recounts in detail, facing the
screen, with a strange, mechanical voice which he had firstly to
master and then recognise as his own".
the American filmmaker Maryann De leo, the documentary White Horse for
HBO Studios and the Discovery Channel. He is a well-known artist based
in Caen, France.White Horse features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to
his home in Ukraine for the first time in 20 years. He was evacuated
from the city of Pripyat, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) in
1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster. The main character was contacted
by the film makers when the film debuted. His wife informed them in
February 2008 that he had died from a heart attack shortly after the
completion of the film. He was survived by his wife and one daughter.
In 2011, Bisson made a short documentary film, Road movie, in a French
psychiatric institution. It was selected in the French competition at
the 2011 FID Marseille festival. In 2012, Bisson made another short
documentary film, Liquidation, in the same institution. It was
selected at the 2013 Cinéma du réel festival in Paris. The same
year, he made Au monde (into the world) produced by Triptyque films.
Claire Atherton was the editor. The film was selected at the in the
French competition. Jean-Pierre Rehm, Director of FID Marseille wrote
about it : "This film is also about speech, its privation and its
rough rediscovery. Following an amputation of the larynx, a man named
Joël Perrotte decided to reinforce his muteness by hiding in the
basement of his house. It is the story of this retreat from the world,
and his subsequent resurfacing, that he recounts in detail, facing the
screen, with a strange, mechanical voice which he had firstly to
master and then recognise as his own".
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