Director
Jean-Gabriel Périot
52 years · Bellac, France · 38 films
Born in France in 1974, Jean-Gabriel Périot never went to film school but studied media and communication. While working in the audiovisual service at Centre Georges Pompidou, he turned to editing and got introduced to archives. This new medium turned out to be for him a never-ending material allowing for the elaboration of new visual narratives. His approach to editing mainly questions violence and history from film and photographic archives. He directed many short films bordering on documentary, fiction and experimental cinema, as well as longer formats.
Best known for
Filmography 38
A Life, A Manifesto
2026 · Director
Facing Darkness
2024 · Writer, Director
All Effort of Men
2022 · Editor, Screenplay
Returning to Reims
2022 · Director, Screenplay
Our Defeats
2019 · Director, Editor
There Is Joy in This Struggle
2018 · Editor, Director
Song for the Jungle
2018 · Director
Summer Lights
2016 · Director, Writer
Même le vent semble pleurer
2016 · Writer, Director
Un autre jour en France
2016 · Director
A German Youth
2015 · Director
On OVID
Poor Little White Girls
2015 · Director, Editor
Si jamais nous devons disparaître ce sera sans inquiétude mais en combattant jusqu'à la fin
2014 · Director, Writer
The Day has Conquered the Night
2013 · Director, Writer
Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened
2012 · Director
The Devil
2012 · Director, Producer
#67
2012 · Director
Looking at the dead
2011 · Director, Editor
The Barbarians
2010 · Director, Writer
Crumbs
2009 · Editor
The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon
2009 · Editor, Producer
Between Dogs and Wolves
2008 · Director
200,000 Phantoms
2007 · Director, Editor
Harness and Wheel
2006 · Director