Jean-Gabriel Périot Trailers
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In his youth, Jean-Gabriel Périot assiduously frequents the dark rooms. At fourteen, it's the click, he decides that his job will be to make movies.
His passion for archives, visual or sound, and history comes during a work done at the Center Georges Pompidou at the end of his studies. He discovered the possibilities offered by archival images, a rich material that makes it possible to elaborate new visual narratives1.
However, before beginning in cinema, he teaches and proposes installations in the field of contemporary art.
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Total trailers found: 41
14 May 2009
A worker woman lives in her little house, works in a factory, shops in a market. One morning, the fa�
11 July 2007
In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945.
06 July 2012
Documentary short about the Black Panther movement.
14 May 2026
The life of Michèle Firk — a trailblazing French journalist, film critic, aspiring director and communist activist involved in various liberation struggles in the second half of the 20th century — as told by narrator Alice Diop, modern day French director.
26 April 2008
A young man, looking for a job...
10 March 2004
An aquatic ballet to the sound of It's Raining Men.
08 November 2018
Jean-Gabriel Périot sketches the portrait of a group of women for whom music is a means of resistance and of escaping isolation.
01 January 2006
“I make films because I don’t know. I seek. I try to see things more clearly, pushing myself to at least know how to express questions.
03 September 2010
If politics were to come back, it could only be from its savage and disreputable fringe. Then, a muffled rumor shall arise whence that roar is heard: "We are scum!
01 June 2012
A film about politics and tomatoes.
10 January 2005
A beautiful, elegiac cycle expressing the boundless hope and infinite nostalgia of the voyage, consisting entirely of still images and painstakingly assembled into a emotionally moving pictorial essay.
03 February 2005
Today's been sad. Tomorrow won't get any better. Let's un-do it all over again
01 January 2004
We are many. We are uniforms. We smile in the picture. But We are NOT happy
01 January 2014
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.
07 December 2012
A documentary experiment of great emotional power, about freedom and the strength of human affective bonds.
01 January 2004
Pornography can sometimes be beautiful, sensitive, aesthetic. A movie about making love, respirations, exhibition, loveniness, silences.
26 November 2004
Revolution, queer and rock n roll.
09 April 2006
Jean-Gabriel Périot's short film.
01 January 2013
Eight portraits, eight dreams, eight escapes
30 March 2022
An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.
01 January 2001
"I'm gay, I'm a fag, I'm proud and I really love sex."
01 January 2005
Medically speaking, we're moving forward.
11 January 2006
French archive images of the Second World War pass in a dizzying tempo. The pace slows when we see images of the liberation.
15 May 2015
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies.
01 January 2000
A very private moment in which the body becomes an artificial and fabricated entity. A young man changes in front of a mirror.
31 December 2022
Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature.
01 January 2016
We who are still looking for who we are. We who are still figuring out what to do.
13 November 2024
Following Bosnia and Herzegovina’s declaration of independence in April 1992, Bosnian Serb troops besieged and bombed Sarajevo.
09 October 2019
By going back into the cinema of the 1968 era and going forward with present-day interviews of young people who replay excerpts of films jumping out from the past, Our Defeats draw the portrait of our current relations with politics.
20 September 2016
On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris, travels to Japan to interview survivors for a documentary commemorating the victims of the attack.
01 January 2014
A guitarist and a drummer are playing an instrumental rock song, the audience sways to the beat of the music.
13 June 2018
Calais' jungle, a few weeks before its clearing.
01 January 2009
About police men's sensibility.
01 January 2002
Biting commentary on the assimilation of homosexuals into mainstream society illustrated through the use of cut-out animation.
01 January 2011
The story is adapted from Baader-Meinhof by Don DeLillo and depicts the mysterious meeting between a woman and a man in an art gallery.
01 January 2015
Two black and white faces.
21 April 2002
The 21st of april 2002 was the day of the first round of the presidential elections. The two candidates chosen for the 2nd round of the elections were right wing Jacques Chirac and right fascist, homophobe and racist Jean-Marie Le Pen.
01 January 2004
"An investigation of the intimate and the political. An inventory of our contemporary state of resignation, self-sacrifice and emptiness.
