Jean-Gabriel Périot
Jean-Gabriel Périot is a French filmmaker.
Jean-Gabriel Périot

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- Name
- Jean-Gabriel Périot
- Born
- 1974
- Birthplace
- Bellac, France
- Occupation
- Filmmaker
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- cinematography · documentary film · film direction
- Languages
- French
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• Name — Jean-Gabriel Périot • Born — 1974 • Birthplace — Bellac, France • Occupation — Filmmaker • Years Active — 2001–present • Website — http: www.jgperiot.net Jean-Gabriel Périot is a French filmmaker.
Biography
Biography
He lived in southern France and Guadeloupe before moving to Paris. 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. His favourite filmmaker include: Dziga Vertov, Michael Haneke, Jean-Luc Godard and Guy Debord. Périot currently shares his time between Paris and Nice.
Feature films
Feature films
• A German Youth (2015) • Summer Lights (2017) • Our Defeats (2019) • Returning to Reims (Fragments) (2021)
Short films
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)
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- 1.Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot. for Hi Mom! Film Festival (2005).
- 2.My Favorite Obsessive-Compulsive Political Filmmaker: Jean-Gabriel Périot. for Blue fat (2009).
- 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.Interview with Jean-Gabriel Périot. for inshort festival (2006).
- 5.Interview with one of the best French video artist. Worker and gay, political and ironical. for Mix Brasil (2006).
- 6.Retour à Reims (Fragments) / Returning to Reims (Fragments). Viennale.
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