Jean-Gabriel Périot

Biography

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.

Directed

1. A German Youth (2015) — Director
2. Returning to Reims (2022) — Director
3. The Devil (2012) — Director
4. Had She Been a Criminal... (2006) — Director
5. 200,000 Phantoms (2007) — Director
6. Summer Lights (2016) — Director
7. Our Defeats (2019) — Director
8. Gay ? (2001) — Director
9. Undo (2005) — Director
10. The Day has Conquered the Night (2013) — Director
11. Dies Irae (2005) — Director
12. #67 (2012) — Director
13. We Are Become Death (2014) — Director
14. The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon (2009) — Director
15. Devil Inside (2004) — Director
16. The Barbarians (2010) — Director
17. Même le vent semble pleurer (2016) — Director
18. Facing Darkness (2024) — Director
19. Before I Was Sad (2002) — Director
20. Rain (2004) — Director
21. A Life, A Manifesto (2026) — Director
22. Lovers (2004) — Director
23. Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened (2012) — Director
24. All Effort of Men (2022) — Director
25. Under Twilight (2006) — Director
26. Médicalement (2005) — Director
27. Harness and Wheel (2006) — Director
28. Intimated Diary (2000) — Director
29. Lovers (2004) — Director
30. There Is Joy in This Struggle (2018) — Director
31. Song for the Jungle (2018) — Director
32. 21.04.02 (2002) — Director
33. We are winning don't forget (2004) — Director
34. Si jamais nous devons disparaître ce sera sans inquiétude mais en combattant jusqu'à la fin (2014) — Director
35. Un autre jour en France (2016) — Director
36. Poor Little White Girls (2015) — Director
37. Nous (2016) — Director
38. Parades amoureuses (2000) — Director
39. Looking at the dead (2011) — Director
40. Pointing Out the Ruins (2004) — Director