Pierre Carles

Pierre Carles was born in 1962 in Gironde He spent part of his childhood and adolescence in Chile and Colombia with his mother a teacher in French schools He returned to France in the late 1970s and studied sociocultural animation then journalism He worked in television from 1988 first as a news cameraman for France 3 Régions then as a columnist or author of humorous subjects in variety shows TF1 France 2 Canal M6 From 1993 he made short documentaries for the BelgianFrench show Striptease France 3 and for the magazine Brut ARTE In 1998 he created a production company in Montpellier with around ten audiovisual and cinema workers involved in the production of his first feature film Pas vu pas pris including producer Annie Gonzalez From 1998 to 2020 he directed or codirected around ten featurelength documentaries for the cinema which deal with media criticism Pas vu pas pris 1998 Enfin pris 2002 Fin de concession 2010 Les Ânes ont soif 2004 the questioning of wage labor and the possibility of living differently Attention danger travail 2003 Volem rien foutre al païs 2007 armed struggle Ni vieux ni traîtres 2006 He is also the author of filmed portraits of singular personalities such as Professor Choron Choron dernière 2008 with Éric Martin or Pierre Bourdieu whom he followed for three years to produce La sociologie est un sport de combat 2001 Through the exchanges of the great researcher with colleagues journalists or activists the profound nature of sociological practice and its critical potential are expressed