- Height5′ 11¾″ (1.82 m)
- Claude Chamis is a director and screenwriter born in Nice, South of France. Lives and works in Paris. Chamis aims to show a world dominated by the loss of senses and values. Each of his films tells the story of a young man confronted with Death. In 2019, his first feature film "The Wanderings of Ivan" received a controversial reception.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Marc Chevrier
- lack of conventional dramatic structure
- many dialogues
- minimalist filmmaking
- close-ups of hands and feet
- characters who never understand the world in which they live.
- Is a fan of Jack Kérouac. He has cited On the road (1957) as one of his favorite novels. Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Maurice Blanchot, René Crevel, Yukio Mishima, Louis Ferdinand Céline, Thomas Bernhard, Philip Roth, Peter Handke, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, William Faulkner, Milan Kundera, Hervé Guibert, John Fante and Bernard-Marie Koltès are his favorite writers.
- Is a huge fan of Morrissey and his former band, The Smiths.
- Has named Rodin as the artist who has influenced him the most.
- André Schneider has named Chamis one of his favorite directors on his blog and publicly expressed his desire to work with him.
- I 'm often told that I film my neuroses. But what else can I film? Only my neuroses are of interest to me. I only film my impossibilities, my frustrations, my paralysis, my suffocation, my obsessions. (Unifrance press file)
- I've always made films that are sort of avant-garde-y or whatever you call it.
- I make movies haunted by the literature, the writing, the book.
- I think I'm a very French director, but I probably should have made films around 1990. What I'm doing is trying to continue the work of the extraordinary French directors with whom I grew up. (Porte de Vincennes - press file)
- My aim is not to film another war of the sexes but rather show the opposite, there is no pre-established harmony between men and women.
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