Jean-Gabriel Périot

Born in France in 1974 JeanGabriel 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 neverending 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