Mathieu Chéreau

BIOGRAPHIE

Mathieu Chéreau is a director and photographer from Tours, in the Loire Valley, France. He found the the artistic balance of piano, writing and photography in filmmaking. He then decided to pursue his passion at the University of Paris 8. His studies in the United States at SUNY Oswego (NY), allowed him to complete his short film, The Tell-Tale Heart. It is inspired by a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, which he explores through the lens of our relationship with time and death. Back in France, he specialized in directing with a Master’s in Cinema and Audiovisual at ENSAV, a public film school in Toulouse. There, he developed his sensitivity to image, sound, and manual creative skills, both in set and costume design. In this school, Mathieu Chéreau directed a new dark fantasy tale, When Darkness Comes. In this film, selected for the Short Film Corner catalog at the Cannes Film Festival, he explores the transition to adulthood in the form of an initiation ritual, inspired by various ancestral traditions.

FILMOGRAPHIE