Jean-Gabriel Périot
{{short description|French filmmaker (born 1974)}}
{{COI|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jean-Gabriel Périot
| image = Jean-Gabriel_Périot.tif
| birth_date = 1974
| birth_place = Bellac, France
| occupation = Filmmaker
| years_active = 2001–present
| website = http://www.jgperiot.net
}}
Jean-Gabriel Périot is a French filmmaker.
Biography
He lived in southern France and Guadeloupe before moving to Paris.{{cite web|title=Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot|url=http://www.jgperiot.net/TEXTES/ENG/05/ENG%2005%20HI%20MOM%20itw.html|website=for Hi Mom! Film Festival (2005)}}
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.{{cite web|title=My Favorite Obsessive-Compulsive Political Filmmaker: Jean-Gabriel Périot|url=http://www.jgperiot.net/TEXTES/ENG/09/ENG%2009%20BLUEFAT%20itw.html|website=for Blue fat (2009)}}{{cite web|title="It is easier to share with people a story of images in images rather than a story of language..." Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot|url=http://www.jgperiot.net/TEXTES/ENG/13/ENG%2013%20CINEASTE%20itw.html|website=for Self-made filmmakers – academic seminar under the supervision of Nicole Brenez (2012-2013)}}
His favourite filmmaker include: Dziga Vertov,{{cite web|title=Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot|url=http://www.jgperiot.net/TEXTES/ENG/06/ENG%2006%20INSHORT%20itw%20DI.html|website=for inshort festival (2006)}} Michael Haneke, Jean-Luc Godard and Guy Debord.{{cite web|title=Interview with one of the best French video artist. Worker and gay, political and ironical|url=http://www.jgperiot.net/TEXTES/ENG/06/ENG%2006%20MIXBRASIL%20itw.html|website=for Mix Brasil (2006)}}
Périot currently shares his time between Paris and Nice.
Filmography
=Feature films=
- A German Youth (2015)
- Summer Lights (2017)
- Our Defeats (2019)
- {{ill|Returning to Reims (Fragments)|fr|Retour à Reims (Fragments)}} (2021){{Cite web |url=https://www.viennale.at/en/film/retour-reims-fragments | title=Retour à Reims (Fragments) / Returning to Reims (Fragments) | website=Viennale | access-date=11 August 2023
}}
= 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
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External links
- [http://www.jgperiot.net Jean-Gabriel Périot's website]
- [https://vimeo.com/jgperiot Jean-Gabriel Périot's vimeo]
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