
Directing
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.


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.

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.

When going from a painting job to a cinematographic work, I felt the need to establish the basic concepts of my creative activity. The day before I left the workshop where I had been working for two years, I decided to make a film about the glances thrown by the passers-by of the rue Louis-Blanc in the window of this room. —Jakobois

Sarah B. relives her awkward film debut. On a pedestal table, a headline, on the front page of France-Soir, challenges her, she immediately transcends it, then resumes "Phèdre" one last time under the astonished gaze of the kids of Belleville before spending one last summer in Belle-Île.

Film made by passing - passing through - passing through - passing from an erotic desire to a filmic desire. The eye slipping from one object of desire to another. Some pass, others enjoy. Ejaculation film during the transition from winter to spring. Suites d'enfilades, suites d'enculades. Suites of variations on the theme of the passage. Passage from underground to overground. Switch from black and white to color. Passage from day to night - passengers in the shade. Passage of desire. Switching from one image to another. Passage - message. Passage from the near to the far, from the far to the near: setting in the abyss. New fleeting visions in a public passage that does not lead to the metro.

Images from the bridge over Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. The inland waterway vessels Rose and Pluie de roses pass each other. Changes pile up and the camera unravels them, through shooting, for a mise en abyme of the fall.



"...the main thing, both during filming and during editing, was not to pay attention, simply to wait to be surprised by a detail and let myself be carried away to another visualization in a dance-like movement."

Passage du désir, a prelude by Jakobois uses the pornographic video-image to which a rhythmical treatment has been given. The sexual activity is explicit. We can clearly understand what is going on. Ultimately there Is the Impression of a stained glass window fixed over the screen. It seems that the desire of the film-maker is to create a new sensual vision out of the perception of the video Image.

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.
