Jean-Gabriel Périot

Jean-Gabriel Périot | Other People’s Problems

Curators: Doreet Levitte Harten, Dalia Levin
Sep. 7, 2013 - Dec. 14, 2013

Born in France in 1974, lives and works in Paris
The Barbarians, 2010, video, 5:00 minutes

Over the past 15 years, Jean-Gabriel Périot has perfected an innovative approach to filmmaking by focusing on the editing of moving images and photographs culled from archival sources, which constitute the raw material for his short films.
Périot’s work is distinguished by an intense, emotional approach to contemporary and historical themes, which he describes as “political” in the profound sense of this term. He is not concerned with any particular form of militancy, but rather probes an essential question: How can real change be instigated in the context of social turbulence, and by what methods?

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