Cyril Collard

Cyril Collard 19 December 1957 Paris 5 March 1993 Versailles was a French author filmmaker composer musician and actor He is known for his unapologetic portrayals of bisexuality and HIV in art particularly his autobiographical novel and film Les Nuits fauves Savage Nights Openly bisexual Collard was also one of the first French artists to speak openly about his HIVpositive status Collard was born into a liberal middleclass family in France He attended Lycée Hoche in Versailles and pursued an engineering degree at Institut Industriel du Nord in Villeneuve dAscq later known as École centrale de Lille before deciding to drop out The semiautobiographical Savage Nights Les Nuits fauves finished in 1992 was Collards first and only feature film It won four Césars best editing best film best first work and most promising actress in 1993 Unfortunately Collard did not live to accept his award he had died three days earlier Early in his career Collard assisted fellow director Maurice Pialat and directed six music videos as well as several television programs Among the music videos he directed were those of FrenchAlgerian band Carte de Séjour whose lead singer Rachid Taha was one of the most famous rockethnic musicians in France Collards own experiences with AIDS undoubtedly influenced his work He died of AIDSrelated illness aged 35 Source Article Cyril Collard from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA