Born in Paris in a family from Alsace & Lorraine, which numbers a few painters, among them Edouard Moise. Diploma of National School for Photography and Cinema. Volunteer in French Jewish Resistance, collecting and forging identity papers to rescue children, joins theJewish Maquis and the First French Army and fights for Southern France Liberation and in the Vosges and Alsace campaign. During these difficult years he sketches and makes caricatures.

He begins his work as a photographer in various fields. He is Hans Arp's photographer and a collaborator of "Aujourd'hui" and "Architecture d'Aujourd'hui" (Modern Art and Architecture magazines) and Christian Zervos Cahiers d'Art.

He also gets well known as a Theater photographer, in particular for Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault and Marcel Marceau, while taking part in many photographic exhibitions in France, and in numerous countries abroad.

He taught photography in Paris University from 1975 to 1986 and was a member of French Plastic Arts Agregation Jury.

He exhibits his first personal creations, which he calls Metaforms, with "Groupe Espace" in1957 and has his fist personal Metaforms exhibition in 1962.The metaforms are the trajectories of mobiles he builds with a view to the movements he imposes upon them thereby creating images close to musical harmony. About 40 personal exhibitions of Metaforms took place in France, Canada, United States of America, Israel, Germany, Denmark.

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Taking his inspiration from contemporary scores, he creates Metaforms sequences that evolve in accordance with the musical structure. This ‘’Music for the Eye’’ is neither intended to serve as an accompaniment nor as an illustration, but freeing us from reality stimulates our imagination without restraining it. Numerous ‘’Music for the Eye’’ evenings have been given in Cultural Center and Museums in France and abroad. Together with Trio Deslogères a Chamber Contemporary Ensemble he toured Israël and gave Concert-shows in France.

Weill made a short experimental film for the French Television Research Service, to which a special mention as best experimental film at the First Amateur and Short Film Festival in Jerusalem was awarded.

He also creates moving sceneries for Dance and Mime, in particular for Marcel Marceau and even creations where the moving images take a dominanting part in the choreography or the mimodrama, for instance with French National Opera Ballet and Contemporary Theater Ballet, Muriel Jaer dances in France and Italy and T.Daniel and Giuseppe Condello mimodramas in Chicago and Winnipeg.

Since 1987, he lived in Jerusalem, where he continued his work : Music for the eye evenings in Yaffo nights, Israël Museum and Alliance Française. Creation of Tsoar for the Contemporary music fesrtival of Zeloa in France of a visual moving scenary for Tamara Mielnick’s ‘’Prints’’ and for an André Neher exibition in a museum devoted to the history and life of Alsace Jews (Bouxwiller, France).

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