Known for Directing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marc Caro, born April 2, 1956, is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his co-directing projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The two of them met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet and Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a melancholy comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic world, in which an apartment building above a delicatessen is ruled by a butcher who kills people in order to feed his tenants. They next made The City of Lost Children (1995), a dark, multi-layered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals children's dreams so that he can live indefinitely. The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the fourth film in the Alien series, Alien: Resurrection (1997). This is where Jeunet and Caro ended up going their separate ways as Jeunet believed this to be an amazing opportunity and Caro was not interested in a film that lacked creative control working on a big-budget Hollywood movie. Caro ended up assisting for a few weeks, with costumes and set design but afterwards, decided to work on a solo career in illustration and computer graphics. His first feature film as a solo director was entitled Dante 01. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marc Caro licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
April 2, 1956 (age 70)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Filmography
51 films, 2 shows


Looop
2019 · 5m
country: Unknown
An android, half-man half-machine, moves forward in a baroque cathedral decor. As hypnotized by a stroboscopic impulse, the ANDROID begins a journey in a maze of corridors, bridges and spiral staircases. His endless ascent to the Light will make him discover the eternal return ...
Astroboy in Roboland
Astroboy in Roboland
2009 · 53m
country: Unknown
Documentary about robotics.
Jean Cocteau and His Tricks
Jean Cocteau and His Tricks
2008 · 13m
country: France
Filmmaker Marc Caro interviews Claude Pinoteau, assistant director of Jean Cocteau's 1950 film ORPHEUS, about the special effects used in the film.


Dante 01
2008 · 1h 22m
country: France
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force, Saint-Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship's depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits... each must confront his own Dragon.


Made in Caro
2006 · 2h
country: Unknown
Short films, clips and commercials made by Marc Caro when he was working at his movie 'Cité des Enfants Perdues' (1995).


Samàdhi
2004 · 4m
country: France
A music video for the titular song by Tempsion, featuring various images of quivering soapbubbles. It is one of ten animated films made for their album "Rectifier", all of which were featured on the complementary DVD included with the albums CD release.


Animag credits
2003 · 1m
country: Unknown
Three opening sequences for Arte’s animation magazine: Animag, featuring a series of distorted, quivering and mirrored human figures.
Grolandsat
Grolandsat
2001 · 1m
country: Unknown
One of the 2001 opening sequences for the titular Canal+ show.
AKA Science Music
AKA Science Music
1999 · 1m
country: United Kingdom
An educational video by AKA science, set to promote their science year campaign. It shows how vibrations in the air allow us to hear sound.
Coloured City
Coloured City
1998 · 4m
country: Unknown
Touentiouane
Touentiouane
1997 · 3m
country: France
Music gives some old machines a makeover.
L.S.Dead
L.S.Dead
1996 · 3m
country: France
Trippy animation.


The City of Lost Children
1995 · 1h 52m
country: France
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.


K.O. Kid
1994 · 3m
country: France
An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action.


Delicatessen
1991 · 1h 39m
country: France
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
Le cirque conférence
Le cirque conférence
1989
country: Unknown
Chronicle of the Revolution
Chronicle of the Revolution
1988 · 2m
country: France
Paper cutout/animation high-level overview of French history.
Le topologue
Le topologue
1988 · 2m
country: Unknown


Le Défilé
1986 · 5m
country: France
"Le Défilé" is a short film of Regine Chopinot & Jean-Paul Gaultier's collaborations, from a retrospective exhibit by the same name.
Rude Raid
Rude Raid
1985 · 13m
country: France
A surrealist, futuristic short film.
Maitre Cube
Maitre Cube
1985 · 5m
country: France
Short video animation by Marc Caro.


The Bunker of the Last Gunshots
1982 · 26m
country: France
A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain project will cause several catastrophies and will make those men kill each other...


L'évasion
1978 · 8m
country: France
Jeunet and Caro capture the story of an attempted prison escape from the Prison de la Santé in Paris. As the escape artists travels through tunnels and squeeze his way through freshly cut bars, he finds himself in an endless labyrinth underneath the confining walls of solitude.