Michel Nedjar

Biography

Master of Art Brut, Michel Nedjar was born in 1947 in the Val d'Oise to a Jewish family marked by war and the holocaust. His father, born in Algiers, settled in Paris in 1921 as a tailor. At home, he tinkered on a sewing machine doll clothes for his sisters. During the Second World War, a large part of his family fell victim to Nazi oppression. In 1960, he became aware of the magnitude of the Holocaust. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in a vocational school to become a tailor and sells jeans with his flea grandfather from Saint-Ouen and accompanies his grandmother to the scrap fair; she makes him share his love for Shmattès (the worn cloth) that she picks up and stacks. In the spring of 1967, he left for military service. With tuberculosis and declared disabled in 1968, he spent a few months in a school of fashion stylist. He is upset by the vision of 'Night and Fog' by Alain Resnais, echoing his own disappearances in his family. In the years 1970-1975, he left with Teo Hernandez. His travels take him to Morocco, Asia Minor, Europe and Mexico. He discovers cultures rich in symbolic expressions. He begins to take an interest in the funeral art and the dolls whose magic functio…

Directed

1. Sur Graal de T.H. (1981) — Director
2. Le gant de l'autre (1977) — Director
3. Ombres-ailes (1980) — Director
4. La tasse (1977) — Director
5. Angle (1978) — Director
6. À quoi rêve l'araignée ? (1982) — Director
7. 4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art (1983) — Director
8. Hors-jeu (1979) — Director
9. Black Room Revealed (2003) — Director
10. Capitale-paysage (1983) — Director
11. Ailes (1979) — Director
12. Bouche D'Oeil (2001) — Director
13. Gestuel (1978) — Director
14. Plus Venise (1990) — Director
15. Bouquet of Eyes (1983) — Director
16. Teo (1978) — Director
17. Désir (1977) — Director
18. Signaux lumineux pour un ballet nuptial (1983) — Director
19. Diaph limite 1,2 Posture d'exil (1983) — Director
20. Le grain de la peau / Streap tease (1986) — Director
21. Une journée avec Pascal Martin et André Robillard (1985) — Director
22. Sara/Teo (1980) — Director
23. Une journée avec les Cantrill (1985) — Director
24. Le grain de la peau (1980) — Director
25. Malik (1977) — Director
26. Monsieur Loulou (1981) — Director
27. Journal à durée indéterminée (1980) — Director
28. Chantilly/Sarah (journal septembre 85) (1985) — Director
29. Journal de Michel Nedjar (août 85) (1985) — Director
30. Chutes de Hors-jeu (1979) — Director
31. Chutes de Capitale-paysage (1982) — Director
32. Chutes de Ombres-ailes (1980) — Director
33. Black room révélée (2003) — Director
34. Chutes de 4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art (1983) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cinématon (1978) — N°27
2. Sur Graal de T.H. (1981)
3. Salomé (1976)
4. Cristo (1977)
5. Graal (1980)
6. Michel Over There (1970)
7. Lacrima Christi (1980)
8. Cristaux (1978)
9. 4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art (1983)
10. Esmeralda (1977)
11. Hors-jeu (1979)
12. Madrid, Quelques Images (1991)
13. Robillard André, Nedjar Michel (1986)
14. Michel Nedjar (1978) — Self
15. Dolls of Darkness: The Art of Michel Nedjar (2016) — Self
16. Pause (1970)
17. Souvenirs/Rouen (1983) — Himself
18. Fragments (1987)
19. Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage (1984) — Self
20. Bouquet of Eyes (1983)
21. Sara (1981)
22. Le chant de l'âme (1989)
23. Chutes de Pascal (1981) — Himself
24. Chutes de Michel Nedjar (1984) — Himself
25. J'aime (1978) — Himself
26. Cinématon III (1978) — N°27
27. Cinématon n°27 : Michel Nedjar (1978)
28. Portraits / Mirrors (1984)
29. Crime contre le cinéma (2020)
30. Chutes de Lacrima Christi (1984) — Performer