Biography
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 ...
Complete Filmography
Facing Darkness
2024
Writer, Director, Editor
Following Bosnia and Herzegovina’s declaration of independence in April 1992, Bosnian Serb troops besieged and bombed Sarajevo. Over a period of four ...
All Effort of Men
2022
Editor, Screenplay, Director
Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of c...
Returning to Reims
2022
Director, Screenplay
An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.
Our Defeats
2019
Director, Editor
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 f...
There Is Joy in This Struggle
2018
Script, Editor, Director
Jean-Gabriel Périot sketches the portrait of a group of women for whom music is a means of resistance and of escaping isolation.
Song for the Jungle
2018
Director
Calais, a few weeks before its clearing.The 'Jungle' is a place where thousands of migrants live and wait to go to England, or just that somebody take...
Summer Lights
2016
Director, Writer, Editor
On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris, travels to Japan to interview surviv...
Même le vent semble pleurer
2016
Writer, Director
Un autre jour en France
2016
Director
Nous
2016
Director, Editor
A German Youth
2015
Director
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalis...
Poor Little White Girls
2015
Director, Editor
We Are Become Death
2014
Director
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent."
Si jamais nous devons disparaître ce sera sans inquiétude mais en combattant jusqu'à la fin
2014
Director, Writer
Le jour a vaincu la nuit
2013
Director
Eight portraits, eight dreams, eight escapes
Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened
2012
Director
A documentary experiment of great emotional power, about freedom and the strength of human affective bonds. We witness a concert given by the inmates ...
The Devil
2012
Director, Producer, Editor
Documentary short about the Black Panther movement.
#67
2012
Director
A film about politics and tomatoes.
Looking at the dead
2011
Director
The story is adapted from Baader-Meinhof by Don DeLillo and it depicts the mysterious meeting between a woman and a man in an art gallery.
The Barbarians
2010
Director, Writer, Editor
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: ...
Crumbs
2009
Editor
A worker woman lives in her little house, works in a factory, shops in a market. One morning, the factory starts moving and gets out of the field…
The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon
2009
Editor, Executive Producer, Producer
About police men's sensibility.
Between Dogs and Wolves
2008
Director
A young man, looking for a job...
200,000 Phantoms
2007
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
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 at...
Harness and Wheel
2006
Director
Jean-Gabriel Périot's short film.
Even If She Had Been a Criminal...
2006
Director, Writer
French archive images of the Second World War pass in a dizzying tempo. The pace slows when we see images of the liberation. We see happy, liberated c...
Under Twilight
2006
Director
“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. It’s a way for...
Undo
2005
Director
Today's been sad. Tomorrow won't get any better. Let's un-do it all over again
Dies Irae
2005
Director
A beautiful, elegiac cycle expressing the boundless hope and infinite nostalgia of the voyage, consisting entirely of still images and painstakingly a...
Médicalement
2005
Director
Medically speaking, we're moving forward.
Devil Inside
2004
Director
Revolution, queer and rock n roll.
Rain
2004
Director
An aquatic ballet to the sound of It's Raining Men.
Lovers
2004
Director
Pornography can sometimes be beautiful, sensitive, aesthetic. A movie about making love, respirations, exhibition, loveniness, silences...
Lovers
2004
Director
Pornography can sometimes be beautiful, sensitive, aesthetic. A movie about making love, respirations, exhibition, loveniness, silences...
Pointing Out the Ruins
2004
Director
"An investigation of the intimate and the political. An inventory of our contemporary state of resignation, self-sacrifice and emptiness. An inventory...
We are winning don't forget
2004
Director
We are many. We are uniforms. We smile in the picture. But We are NOT happy
21.04.02
2002
Director
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...
Before I Was Sad
2002
Director
Biting commentary on the assimilation of homosexuals into mainstream society illustrated through the use of cut-out animation.
Gay ?
2001
Director
"I'm gay, I'm a fag, I'm proud and I really love sex."
Intimated Diary
2000
Director
A very private moment in which the body becomes an artificial and fabricated entity. A young man changes in front of a mirror. He cleans the scars on ...
Parades amoureuses
N/A
Director, Editor
Ô mon amour
N/A
Director, Screenplay
Une vie manifeste
N/A
Director
The life of Michèle Firk, a trailblazing French journalist, film critic and anti-colonial activist who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.