French Film Director, Second Unit Director, Assistant Director, ScreenWriter, Producer, Actor, Cinematographer and Editor

Sometimes credited as
Claude Timon-Gaignaire
Claude-Timon Gaignaire

Claude Gaignaire is a director and assistant director, known for Les silences de Laas Geel (2010), Une touche de bleue (1988, selected at Cannes Film Festival) and Les enfants du diable (1992).

Born in 1941, he studied at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique in Sète and the Centre dramatique du Midi and founded the Compagnie théâtrale de la mer with Moni Grégo. Combining writing and work in the theatre and cinema, he was assistant to Marcel Carné, René Ferret, Alain Bergala and many others. His films include Les Paysages du temps (1983), Une touche de bleue (1988), Les Enfants du diable (1992), La Terre des artifices (1995), Femmes de Camargue (1999) and La Stratégie du thon (2000). He runs theatre workshops in working-class areas in Sète and, with various theatrical companies, is carrying out an experiment on the audiovisual interpretation of theatre conserving the fiction aspect. He is currently making a full-length feature film, L'Ange des mers, and a full-length animated film, Les Révoltés de la couleur.

Filmography

2010 / Les silences de Laas Geel (Documentary)
* Director, ScreenWriter, Editor, Cinematographer, Producer (as Claude Timon-Gaignaire)

1999 Hollywood 26 (TV Series)
* Director, Producer (series producer)

1992 Les enfants du diable
* Director

1988 Une touche de bleue (as Claude-Timon Gaignaire)
* Director
* ScreenWriter

1985 MusiCalifornia (TV Series)
* Director

1983 / Faux fuyants
* Actor. Role: Jacques

1980 La douceur et le silence (TV Movie)
* ScreenWriter

1980 À vendre
* First assistant director

1980 Fernand
* Assistant director

1977 La communion solennelle
* Assistant director

1975 Histoire de Paul
* Assistant director

Source:
* www.imdb.com/name/nm0301172/
* www.cinemed.tm.fr/cgi-bin/film/film.cgi?cine=1&id=11352&festi=42&lemenu=9&uk=oui&mod=reguk