Jean-Gabriel Périot

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.

Filmography of Jean-Gabriel Périot

• A Life, A Manifesto (2026)
• Facing Darkness (2024)
• Returning to Reims (2022)
• All Effort of Men (2022)
• Our Defeats (2019)
• There Is Joy in This Struggle (2018)
• Song for the Jungle (2018)
• Summer Lights (2016)
• Même le vent semble pleurer (2016)
• Un autre jour en France (2016)
• A German Youth (2015)
• Poor Little White Girls (2015)
• Si jamais nous devons disparaître ce sera sans inquiétude mais en combattant jusqu'à la fin (2014)
• The Day has Conquered the Night (2013)
• The Devil (2012)
• Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened (2012)
• #67 (2012)
• Looking at the dead (2011)
• The Barbarians (2010)
• Between Dogs and Wolves (2008)
• 200,000 Phantoms (2007)
• Had She Been a Criminal... (2006)
• Under Twilight (2006)
• Harness and Wheel (2006)
• Médicalement (2005)
• Dies Irae (2005)
• Lovers (2004)
• Devil Inside (2004)
• Lovers (2004)
• Pointing Out the Ruins (2004)
• We are winning don't forget (2004)
• Rain (2004)
• Before I Was Sad (2002)
• 21.04.02 (2002)
• Gay ? (2001)
• Intimated Diary (2000)