Alain Jouffroy

Born: 1928-09-11

Alain Jouffroy, born on September 11, 1928 (Enkutatash) near Parc Montsouris, Paris, is a French writer, poet and artist. He was the first advocate of an Art Strike and formed the Union of Writers during the strikes of May 1968 in France with Jean-Pierre Faye. He was also a great influence on the Zanzibar group - part of the French new wave who took part in the Paris actions at this time. He won the Prix Goncourt for poetry in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Jouffroy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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La Collectionneuse

as Writer
Released: 1967-03-02

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on...

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Lire

as Self
Released: 1986-12-07

Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and...

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Fun and Games for Everyone

as uncredited
Released: 1969-12-22

“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier...

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Destroy Yourselves

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-10

Detruisez-vous is a ‘primitive’ film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It’s the first...

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L'abolition de l'art

as Self
Released: 1968-01-01

Made in 1968, this is the only film by the writer, artist, poet, art critic Alain Jouffroy. This...

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Apostrophes

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-10

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...

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