Filmmaker and researcher born in 1944 in Saint-Cyr-les-Champagnes. Studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. Co-founded the Paris Films Coop in February 1974, then Cinédoc.

He has been making films since 1969. In pursuing his investigation of the cinematography of colour and how colours are perceived, he has developed various cinematographic systems for viewing colours and for binocular vision: "cinéchromies" and "cinéglyphes". Since 1980, he has been exploring holographic cinema with Claudine Eizykman.

Professor and Director of the Department for Film and Audiovisual Studies at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint-Denis). In 1978, he gained his doctorate with a thesis entitled Articulation en dispositifs de quelques configurations de désir (dispositif intermittent).