No.  He's not real.  This is posted in the serious section to try to fool you.  Did it work?

I personally didn't know Henri Delluc was a fictional creation until I tried to look him up on the internet.  Louis Delluc is a real filmmaker.  But not from the New Wave, even.

Perhaps this wouldn't be enjoyable to anyone but a raging film nerd, but for them (us), Jimmy has created something really playful and fun.  The interviews sound a little bit scripted, but they're so spot-on in their characterizations that you're willing to give these scholars the benefit of the doubt.

Chaise itself is really convincing, too, impressively so-- it looks like it was shot on film, and moreover, it looks like something that could really be a hit in avant garde circles.

I bet, with a little word of mouth, you could actually screen Chaise at an American cinematheque somewhere, by the forgotten master of Objectivist Cinema, Henri Delluc, and people would come.

I probably would.

I think, ultimately, that it's the French dialogue that sells this piece, though.  Who ever heard of a faux-documentary with interviews conducted in actual French, with subtitles?  What kind of film student could even interview someone in French?

One from Paris, evidently.