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Jean-Christophe Averty

Jean-Christophe Averty

Director · Born 1928-08-06 · Paris, France

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Biography

Jean-Christophe Averty (6 August 1928 – 4 March 2017[1]) was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique. Many of his television productions from the 1960s were early examples of French video art. His studies were used in the following decades by the research groups of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA). Averty was born in Paris. A graduate of the IDHEC film school, he started in television in 1952 at the then French Television Office. He directed over five hundred programs for television and radio, across all disciplines: fiction, documentary, drama, variety, and jazz. His many awards include an Emmy award in the United States. Averty was appointed Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique in 1990, due to his fascination for Alfred Jarry and Pataphysique. Averty made his reputation on his strong character, his taste for provocation and his sense for innovative television. His 1963 series The Green Grapes was infamous for a recurring sequence of a baby being put through a grater. A keen connoisseur of jazz, Averty filmed the Jazz à Juan festival for many years. The pianist Martial Solal paid him a tribute in one of his compositi…

Directed

  1. Ray Charles - Live in France 1961 (2011) — Director
  2. Ubu Roi (1965) — Director
  3. Émilie Jolie (1980) — Director
  4. Alice au pays des merveilles (1970) — Director
  5. Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali (1969) — Director
  6. Melody (1971) — Director
  7. Serge Gainsbourg ‎– D'autres nouvelles des étoiles (2005) — Director
  8. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969) — Director
  9. Idea (1968) — Director
  10. Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1982) — Director
  11. Impressions d'Afrique (1977) — Director
  12. Musidora (1973) — Director
  13. The Carpathian Castle (1976) — Director
  14. Les verts pâturages (1964) — Director
  15. Aretha Franklin - Live in Paris (1977) — Director
  16. Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx (1981) — Director
  17. Ubu enchaîné (1971) — Director
  18. Alfred Jarry - 1873-1907 (1995) — Director
  19. Ça c'est Claude François (1967) — Director
  20. Une visite à l'exposition de 1889 — Director
  21. Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (1973) — Director
  22. Ella Fitzgerald à l'Olympia (1963) — Director
  23. Vacances à la mer (1951) — Director
  24. Un beau ténébreux (1971) — Director
  25. Christmas Blues (1960) — Director
  26. Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1992) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Adieu Philippine (1962) — Le metteur en scène de 'Jazz Memories' (uncredited)
  2. La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022) — Self (archive footage)
  3. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
  4. Apostrophes (1975) — Self
  5. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
  6. It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957) — Assistant director (uncredited)
  7. Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête (1995) — self
  8. Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory (2017) — Self
  9. Bambi (1948) — Self
  10. Samedi soir (1971) — Self
  11. Discorama (1959) — Self
  12. La Lucarne magique (1971) — A personality
  13. Au service de Jean-Christophe Averty mode Jarry (2014) — Self
  14. Au service de Jean-Christophe Averty mode Shakespeare (2016) — Self
  15. Les trésors cachés des variétés (2017) — Self
  16. Grimme Award (1964) — Self