Jean-Paul Andrieu
- Director
- Actor
- Cinematographer
Jean-Paul Andrieu studied history before becoming an
illustrator-researcher, then a producer for the radio channel France
Culture. He also became a sound technician for movies (documentaries)
and collaborated with Jacques Kébadian, Françoise Prenant and, in 1985,
with Raymond Depardon for "Une Femme en Afrique". Very deeply
influenced by the cinema of Frederick Wiseman ( discovered in the
197Os), he became a documentarist himself with "La Traversée de la
France à pied" shown on Arte in 1994 et "Journal de Campagne" shown on
France 3 in 1996. From 1998 to the beginning of the year 2000 he filmed
the everyday life of the cancerology department of Hôpital Lariboisière
in Paris in the excellent "Etats de Service"