Nelly Kaplan (born 11 April 1931) is an Argentine-born French writer about film and the arts and filmmaker. She studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires. Passionate about cinema, she abruptly put her studies on hold to go to Paris to represent the new Argentine film archive at an international convention. She stayed there and became a correspondent for different Argentine newspapers. She met Abel Gance in 1954, who allowed her to have her first work experience with the filming of "La tour de Nesle."She became his assistant for the filming and showing of the program "Magirama" (triple screen) in Polyvision, then, always by Abel Gance's side, she collaborated with him on "Austerlitz." He trusted her with the direction of all the second crew's action scenes during the filming of his movie "Cyrano et d'Artagnan."Meanwhile, she published under her name "Le Manifeste d'un art nouveau" about "Magirama," and prefaced by Philippe Soupault. In 1960, she published a report of filming entitled "Le Sunlight of Austerlitz," through the Plon publishing house.Starting in 1961, she directed an entire series of art shorts, which won numerous prizes in various international festivals. Among these shorts were "Gustave Moreau," a brilliant analysis of this genius painter who is at the origin of essentially all modern art; "Rudolphe Bresdin," the engraver; "Dessins et merveilles," on the sketchbooks of Victor Hugo," as well as "Les années 25 ", " La Nouvelle Orangerie " ; "Abel Gance hier et demain ", " A la source, la femme aimée ", titles based on the secret notebooks of the painter André Masson.
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