“On my sets, everybody seems very relaxed. I always try to avoid any tension before it even begins. A shooting has to be like a party. The creative process must be joyful, even if the final result is meant to be sad or scary.”

Argentine filmmaker and screenwriter

Gaspar Noé, known professionally as Gaspar Noé, is an Argentine filmmaker and screenwriter who lives and works mainly in France. He is associated with New French Extremity and with films marked by graphic depictions of sex, drugs, epilepsy, and violence. His work is often discussed for its confrontational style and for the way it pushes extreme subject matter to the front of the frame. As a screenwriter and director, he has built a reputation around films that challenge viewers and make bodily experience, desire, and disturbance central themes.