Louis Mouchet
Director · Geneva, Switzerland
Louis Mouchet studied history and literature at the University of Geneva and graduated from London International Film School in 1983. He has directed mainly documentaries, along with shorts, music videos and corporate films for international companies and organizations. Filmography: - François Simon the Presence (with Ana Simon, 1986). Portrait of Swiss actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon. With the participation of Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Schmid and Paco Ibáñez. - Adolphe Appia the Visionary of Invisible (1989). Portrait of stage designer Adolphe Appia. - The Jodorowsky Constellation, a portrait of cult film-maker and multitalented artist Alejandro Jodorowsky which ends up in a “self-reflective exercise”.With the participation of Jean Giraud aka Moebius, Peter Gabriel, Fernando Arrabal and Marcel Marceau. - The Secret of Secret (2000), film on traditional healers in the Alps. - Blues Road Movie (2001), film retracing the epic of Blues from Mali to New Orleans, and from Mississippi to Chicago. With Boubacar Traore, Corey Harris, Koko Taylor, Eddie C. Campbell, Super Chikan and Bobby Rush. - Rromani Soul (2008). Following the "Queen of the Gypsies" Esma Redzepova, the film reveals for the first time ever that the true and unique origin of the rroma people is Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh, India. - Santa Shakti (2017), an immersion into the Divine Feminine.
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Movie6.4DocumentaryThis documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his career as a filmmaker, graphic novelist, and workshop leader, and his eccentricities including tarot reader and theatrical director during The Panic Movement. Directed by Louis Mouchet, La Constellation Jodorowsky includes a lengthy on-camera interview with Jodorowsky in Spanish with subtitles. Marcel Marceau, Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and Jean Pierre Vignau make appearances discussing their various projects with the director. In addition to the interview and film clips, Mouchet features some bizarre footage from Jodorowsky’s absurdist plays in which topless women splattered with paint writhe around the stage in a theatrical production meant to represent The Panic Movement, i.e., an artistic expression in which reason cannot fully express the human experience.
MovieDocumentaryCE QUE CACHE LA FORÊT (What the Forest conceals) explores the invisible inheritance we carry within us: that of the family unconscious passed down from generation to generation. Personalities as varied as psychologist Anne Ancelin Schützenberger, systemic therapist Bert Hellinger and artist Alexandro Jodorowsky have, each in their own way, revealed the existence of these unresolved stories that profoundly influence our lives. Today, epigenetic research confirms that trauma can mark our genome, and be passed on beyond those who experienced it. But how do these memories get inscribed in us? How can they be recognized, overcome and healed? Filmmaker Louis Mouchet shares his own journey through this deeply personal film. This process was nourished by : The making of and follow-up to the film La Constellation Jodorowsky, An introspective dive triggered by the death of his mother and the simultaneous birth of his first child, A powerful session with Romanian therapist Cristina Schmidt.
MovieDocumentaryEpigenetics and psychogenealogy through a VERY personal experience.