Jean-Gabriel Périot

Director, Editor, Writer, Producer

April 23, 1974 (52 years)
In his youth, Jean-Gabriel Périot assiduously frequents the dark rooms. At fourteen, it's the click, he decides that his job will be to make movies.

His passion for archives, visual or sound, and history comes during a work done at the Center Georges Pompidou at the end of his studies. He discovered the possibilities offered by archival images, a rich material that makes it possible to elaborate new visual narratives1.

However, before beginning in cinema, he teaches and proposes installations in the field of contemporary art.

Known For

  • A German Youth
    A German Youth2015
  • Returning to Reims
    Returning to Reims2021
  • Our Defeats
    Our Defeats2019
  • Even If She Had Been a Criminal...
    Even If She Had Been a Criminal...2006
  • Summer Lights
    Summer Lights2016
  • 200,000 Phantoms
    200,000 Phantoms2007
  • The Devil
    The Devil2012
  • Facing Darkness
    Facing Darkness2024
  • The Barbarians
    The Barbarians2010
  • Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened
    Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened2012