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Jean-Gabriel Périot

Jean-Gabriel Périot

French filmmaker (born 1974)

Jean-Gabriel Périot is a French filmmaker.

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Biography

He lived in Antibes, Nice and Guadeloupe before moving to Paris.[1]

Périot never went to a film school, instead he studied media and communication. While working in the audiovisual service at Centre Georges Pompidou he turned to editing and got introduced to archives.[2][3]

His favourite filmmaker include: Dziga Vertov,[4] Michael Haneke, Jean-Luc Godard and Guy Debord.[5]

Périot currently shares his time between Paris and Nice.

Filmography

Feature films

  • A German Youth (2015)
  • Summer Lights (2017)
  • Our Defeats (2019)
  • Returning to Reims (Fragments) [fr] (2021)[6]

Short films

  • Some Joy In This Struggle (2018)
  • Song For The Jungle (2018)
  • If We Have To Disappear It Will Be Without Disquiet But We Will Fight Until The End (2014)
  • WE ARE BECOME DEATH (2014)
  • Optimism (2013)
  • The Day Has Conquered The Night (2013)
  • The Devil (2012)
  • Our Days, Absolutely, Have To Be Enlightened (2012)
  • Looking At The Dead (2011)
  • The Barbarians (2010)
  • The Delicate Art Of The Bludgeon (2009)
  • Between Dogs And Wolves (2008)
  • 200000 Phantoms (2007)
  • Under Twilight (2006)
  • Even If She Had Been A Criminal... (2006)
  • Dies Irae (2005)
  • Undo (2005)
  • We Are Winning, Don't Forget (2004)
  • 21.04.02 (2002)

References

  1. [1]
    "Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot". for Hi Mom! Film Festival (2005).
  2. [2]
    "My Favorite Obsessive-Compulsive Political Filmmaker: Jean-Gabriel Périot". for Blue fat (2009).
  3. [3]
    ""It is easier to share with people a story of images in images rather than a story of language..." Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot". for Self-made filmmakers – academic seminar under the supervision of Nicole Brenez (2012-2013).
  4. [4]
    "Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot". for inshort festival (2006).
  5. [5]
    "Interview with one of the best French video artist. Worker and gay, political and ironical". for Mix Brasil (2006).
  6. [6]
    "Retour à Reims (Fragments) / Returning to Reims (Fragments)". Viennale. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
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