Jakobois

Born: 1950-04-16

The road which led Jakobois, like many experimental film-makers, to filmic expression was painting. This development he owes to a succession of encounters and personal choices rather than to a university or art school. He has worked in the mediums of sculpture and painting since 1972, influenced by the writings of Jean Dubuffet and the work of Paul Klee, exploring the confluence between minimal art and gestural expression. His first encounters with experimental film date back to 1976, and occurred in the meeting places and specialized programs which at the time proliferated on both banks of the Seine in Paris. He began with using the Super 8 medium, working autonomously as an "artist film maker". His work has been seen in many film festivals as far as Rotterdam, London, Tokyo, Moscow and New York, including a major retrospective season of his films in Paris at the Centre Pompidou in 1988. He was a member of the group "4 à 4 Métro BarbèsRochechou Art" with Téo Hernandez, Michel Nedjar and Gaël Badaud.


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Cinématon

as N°251
Released: 1978-12-20

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...

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Cristo

as uncredited
Released: 1977-08-30

All of history, that of Christ or any other, permeates the world, leaves its mark, modifying and...

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Rumeurs Saint-Maur

as (voice)
Released: 1986-03-17

"Sounds of images" come to me from the windows overlooking rue Saint-Maur (the former pilgrims'...

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Lacrima Christi

as uncredited
Released: 1980-04-19

Lacrima Christi is the longest of the over 150 films made by the Mexican filmmaker resident in...

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Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks...

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Fragments

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-28

Eyes and ears travel discontinuously through everyday life and the sub-worlds of the city and...

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Sur Graal de T.H.

as uncredited
Released: 1981-02-17

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Chutes de Michel Nedjar

as Himself
Released: 1984-12-31

Outtakes from the movie

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Three Drops of Mezcal in a Glass of Champagne

as uncredited
Released: 1983-01-25

An autobiographical black-and-white short in which Teo Hernández portrays his Purépecha father...

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Bouquet of Eyes

as uncredited
Released: 1983-12-31

Through the use of portraits, shadow play and reflections, this series of exercises with and...

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4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art

as uncredited
Released: 1983-03-16

In the early '80s, this collective of artists invented a style of cinema made in 4 hands, where...

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Cinématon n°251 : Jakobois

as uncredited
Released: 1982-12-14

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Lougarou de Nouillorque

as uncredited
Released: 1978-12-31

Film in three parts: (1) Paranorama 3 and 4: a handmade Région Centrale. At once observation...

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Paranorama 1 et 2

as uncredited
Released: 1978-08-29

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