Jakobois

Biography

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.

Directed

1. 4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art (1983) — Director
2. Image Noise (Osmin's Windows) (1984) — Director
3. Rumeurs Saint-Maur (1986) — Director
4. F.H. 79 (Arrête ton cinéma) (1979) — Director
5. Du regard comme objet (b) (1977) — Director
6. Horrible Tragedy (1980) — Director
7. Passage du thermomètre (1983) — Director
8. A Rain of Roses (To Rose Lowder) (1984) — Director
9. Paranorama 1 et 2 (1978) — Director
10. Les ponts d'Asnières (1987) — Director
11. Passage du désir (1988) — Director
12. Lougarou de Nouillorque (1978) — Director
13. Déjà ? vu (1980) — Director
14. Fleur Bleue (1980) — Director
15. For Renésio (Tribute to a Found Friend) (1984) — Director
16. Film sans cocaïne (1985) — Director
17. Visions Fugitives — Director
18. Cinema de camera 1. 2. 3. 4. (1986) — Director
19. Child Play - Traffic Jam (1990) — Director
20. Punky's Way (1978) — Director
21. Schizodrame (1977) — Director
22. Le sexe du Loup-Garou (1978) — Director
23. Eclamorphoses (1977) — Director
24. Souvenir-Souvenir (1978) — Director
25. Passage des petit Métiers (1993) — Director
26. Mon tricot (Thanx to Wilma Schoer) (1979) — Director
27. Jeux et joueurs (1988) — Director
28. Vues du pont (1994) — Director
29. La fenêtre et le néant (1977) — Director
30. Bouquet of Eyes (1983) — Director
31. Le dit de l'escalator (1989) — Director
32. Paris vue par vue (1987) — Director
33. ? U.N.K. (Royaume de Nature Non Identifiée) (1980) — Director
34. Un an d'une vie (1988) — Director
35. Sans titre (25 julliet 1988) (1989) — Director
36. Chutes de 4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art (1983) — Director
37. Ma nuit (1979) — Director
38. In-stances à Raphaële (1979) — Director
39. Deux poules dans la neige (1980) — Director
40. Rézo-zéro (1981) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cinématon (1978) — N°251
2. Sur Graal de T.H. (1981)
3. Cristo (1977)
4. Lacrima Christi (1980)
5. 4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art (1983)
6. Rumeurs Saint-Maur (1986) — (voice)
7. Three Drops of Mezcal in a Glass of Champagne (1983)
8. Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage (1984) — Self
9. Fragments (1987)
10. Lougarou de Nouillorque (1978)
11. Paranorama 1 et 2 (1978)
12. Bouquet of Eyes (1983)
13. Chutes de Michel Nedjar (1984) — Himself
14. Cinématon XXVI (1982) — N°251
15. Chutes de trois gouttes de mezcal dans une coupe de champagne
16. Cinématon n°251 : Jakobois (1982)
17. Crime contre le cinéma (2020)
18. Chutes de Lacrima Christi (1984) — Performer