Jakobois
Also Known As: Jacques Haubois, Jacques Hautbois, IkaBê
Biography: 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Birthday: April 16, 1950
Deathday: September 16, 2022
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Gender: Male
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Cristo
Overview: All of history, that of Christ or any other, permeates the world, leaves its mark, modifying and informing history, and all that the human reproduces and creates. The best way for historical interpretation or literary adaptation is to move as far as possible from literal interpretation. That is, it is a contemporary and personal interpretation. The story of Christ is an archetypal story. It has modified and informed a morality and a vision of the human being in the West, it must be taken for what it is and what it has become: matter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-30
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Lacrima Christi
Overview: Lacrima Christi is the longest of the over 150 films made by the Mexican filmmaker resident in Paris, Teo Hernández. Part three of a tetralogy devoted to Christ’s Passion, Lacrima Christi is an exploration of the transfer between desire and myth that takes as its starting point a series of objects found in the flea market of Belleville.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-19
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4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art
Overview: In the early '80s, this collective of artists invented a style of cinema made in 4 hands, where each of the protagonists is also a filmmaker.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-16
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Three Drops of Mezcal in a Glass of Champagne
Overview: An autobiographical black-and-white short in which Teo Hernández portrays his Purépecha father by holding backlit old photographs atop the Montparnasse Tower while reading a manifesto of sorts on his filmmaking.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-25
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Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage
Overview: Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject.”
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Fragments
Overview: Eyes and ears travel discontinuously through everyday life and the sub-worlds of the city and the body. A fragmented and subjective day-to-day chronicle that outlines a recurring obsession for registering even the most ordinary things, where the least poetic aspects of life, that is to say, the most somber ones, become the eye’s filter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-28
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Lougarou de Nouillorque
Overview: Film in three parts: (1) Paranorama 3 and 4: a handmade Région Centrale. At once observation and description of the realm of vision, of what is possible to see (sound recorded at the time of shooting). (2) Paranorama 5: simple observation of the realm of vision (sound added at a later time: illustration). (3) Pierre Rivière and I: attempt at reading the first lines from Pierre Rivière's testimony, as an embodiment rather than a stage direction.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-31
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Paranorama 1 et 2
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-29
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Bouquet of Eyes
Overview: Through the use of portraits, shadow play and reflections, this series of exercises with and from body language compose a "four-handed" look against the notion of authorship: a vindication of the community content (repressed?) in every image.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-31
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Sur Graal de T.H.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-17
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Rumeurs Saint-Maur
Overview: "Sounds of images" come to me from the windows overlooking rue Saint-Maur (the former pilgrims' path to Saint-Denis) and suddenly make me want to take a closer look. "Images", at the same time, spring from T.S.F.'s post, Louis Moreau Gottschalk starts playing on the keyboard of the pedestrian crossing at the bottom, there, just below my windows; Henri Vieuxtemps makes the umbrellas dance to an old American tune and Gaël, on a visit, takes up this tune on his magic flute. "Some naturalists claim that insects adapt to the vegetation around them and modify their physiology accordingly," says Louis Moreau Gottschalk; I claim that some filmmakers adapt to the spectacle around them and modify their perception of the world accordingly. Certainly I am one of them, and I console myself by thinking that I am not the only one of my kind.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-17
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Chutes de Michel Nedjar
Overview: Outtakes from the movie
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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Cinématon XXVI
Overview: Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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Chutes de trois gouttes de mezcal dans une coupe de champagne
Overview: Outtakes from the movie
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Original Language: en
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Cinématon n°251 : Jakobois
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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