Gérard Patris (1931 − 1990) was a French film director and television director who died in a car accident in 1990 in Chailles. His works include the documentary film Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life. After high school in Poitiers, Gérard Patris joined an art school in Paris. Early into his career, Patris founded a workshop in Paris in lithography. The job allowed him to meet many of the major artists of the post-war period for the attainment of prints as Dubuffet, Sprockets, Manessier, Sonderborg, Arman, Hayter, Hartung or Matta. Gérard Patris had two daughters, one being picasso's model Sylvette David (now known as Lydia Corbett, see Sylvette) and Marie-Claire Schaeffer, his first wife, who was the daughter of the composer Pierre Schaeffer, often presented as the father of music concrete. This meeting allowed him to participate, under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, the research service of the ORTF to create relationships on Sound / Text / Image. Gérard Patris was the founder of "The Movies Chesnaie, unit production television whose workshops were based in the cars of the clinical Chailles. His various encounters with artists from the worlds of music, painting, sculpture made up the core of his work filmography.