François Lévy-Kuentz

François Lévy-Kuentz, born in Paris in 1960, is a French writer and director. He studied cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and then began working as an assistant director on documentary and fiction films. He made his first film about art in 1989 (Man Ray, 2bis rue Férou) and then worked for three years for Ramdam magazine, producing around fifty portraits of painters, visual artists, and writers. Since 2000, François Lévy-Kuentz has devoted himself primarily to his work as a documentary filmmaker, producing major monographs on art as well as films on pictorial movements. These artist monographs, co-written with his brother Stéphan Lévy-Kuentz and produced for France Télévisions or Arte, have won awards at numerous festivals. They are shown in art centers and French Institutes and regularly accompany exhibitions in international museums.