A lover of cinema - Porcile entered the profession first of all through editing - François Porcile was also very early attracted by music. Throughout his career as a filmmaker and musicographer, he declined and combined his two artistic passions by connecting them intimately. As film director, François Porcile, directed more than 150 films, short and feature films, fiction and documentaries, for film and television especially for Gaumont, the INA, Arte, FR3 or TF1. His filmography covers many themes, from history, to visual arts including photography, cinema, literature or various social facts. A musicographer specializing in French music and music in the cinema, he was musical adviser on four films by François Truffaut, using notably unpublished scores of composer Maurice Jaubert. In addition, linking cinema and music, he made several portraits of composers including and interpreters. For FR3 or Arte he filmed a series of concerts, two operas as well as a ballet by Josef Nadj. As musicographer, he signed several major works on music, including two on French music from 1871 to 1965, published by Fayard, a monograph of Maurice Ohana, interviews with violinist Jean Leber and composer Édith Canat de Chizy, and a book. Several of his films have been awarded as well as several of his musicographies including the Prix Armand Tallier in 1972 for Maurice Jaubert, musicien populaire ou maudit le prix du Syndicat de la critique in 2001 and of the Académie Charles Cros in 2002 for Les conflits de la musique française 1940-1965 and another prize of the Académie Charles Cros for Maurice Ohana, co-written with Édith Canat de Chizy. François Porcile taught the history and aesthetics of film music at Universities Paris III and Paris VIII as well as the Idhec, La Fémis and the Conservatoire de Paris. Between 1993 and 2006, he animated the sessions of La Musique plein les yeux at the as well as the series Le Compositeur face à l'écran at the. At the request of the Arte channel, he completed the reconstruction of original scores composed for silent films, including The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna by Hanns Schwarz, Maldone by Jean Grémillon and Carmen by Jacques Feyder.
Publications on film and music
1965: Défense du court métrage français, collection 7e Art, Éditions du Cerf
1969: Présence de la musique à l'écran, Éditions du Cerf
1971: Maurice Jaubert : Musicien populaire ou maudit ?, les Éditeurs français réunis,
1992 La Musique à l'écran, Cinémaction n°62, directed by François Porcile and Alain Garel, Éditions Corlet / SACEM / Télérama,
1995: Les Musiques du cinéma français, with Alain Lacombe, Bordas,
