Nicolas Klotz
Born in 1954, Nicolas Klotz began his career as an assistant director before moving behind the camera in 1987 to make the documentary “Pandit Ravi Shankar”. It’s a portrait of the famous sitar player that Klotz follows during his musical tours across India and Europe. He has adapted several novels and, in 1995, founded La Compagnie de l’Asile. This was followed by two biopics, one of James Carter and the other of Brad Mehldau in 1999. He adapted the embryonic scripts of what were to become Paria (2000) and The Wound (2003). Teaching at La Femis in Paris, he works in collaboration with Élisabeth Perceval, his partner. Together they have made several films including Low Life (2012), The Wild Frontier (2017), “Fugitive, Where Are You Running to?* (2018), Saxifrages, Four White Nights (2021), and Let's Say Revolution (2021).
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The Wild Frontier
Winter 2016. The Calais Jungle is a growing city of about 12 000. In the early spring, the Southern zone, its shops, streets and houses, are completely destroyed. Its expelled population move their houses to the Northern zone to find shelter and keep on living. In the fall, the France organizes the permanent dismantling of the Jungle. But the Jungle is a mutating territory, a world-city, a city...
The Wild Frontier
Winter 2016. The Calais Jungle is a growing city of about 12 000. In the early spring, the Southern zone, its shops, streets and houses, are completely destroyed. Its expelled population move their houses to the Northern zone to find shelter and keep on living. In the fall, the France organizes the permanent dismantling of the Jungle. But the Jungle is a mutating territory, a world-city, a city...
