Jean gabriel periot biography of christopher
Artist Jean-Gabriel Périot has created a series of meticulously constructed and finely tuned found footage movies that are at once both disturbingly....
Balkan Diskurs correspondent Struan Kennedy provides a review of three films that were recently shown at Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo as part of a retrospective of the work of French filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot.
Jean-Gabriel Périot was born in 1974 in Bellac in western France.
His enthusiasm for archives (both visuals and sound), as well as an interest in history, started when working at the Pompidou Centre after his studies.
In his work, filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot explores the major socio-political themes of the 20th and 21st centuries, starting from existing.
Here, he discovered how to play with the potential of archival footage as rich materials allowing him to develop new stories. Before beginning a career in cinema, he had predominantly worked with lighting installations. His films are research driven and take a historical look at the nature of various types of violence.
Often, films will be edited at a very fast pace, these ‘supercuts’ create strange, almost abstract interpretations of real events.
There are several additional techniques that relate to key themes in his practice also merit