Jean-Pierre Gorin is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Co-Director, Director of Photography and Editor French born on 17 april 1943 at Paris (France)
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Jean-Pierre Gorin (born April 17, 1943) is a French filmmaker and professor, best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean-Luc Godard, during what is often referred to as Godard's "radical" period.
Jean-Pierre Gorin was a student of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. He was a radical leftist well before meeting Godard in 1966. Godard relied on some of his discussions with Gorin while writing the script of 1967's La Chinoise. Gorin played a role in making Le Gai Savoir, which was released in 1969. In 1968, Gorin and Godard founded the collective Dziga Vertov Group and together produced a series of overtly political films including Vent d'est (1970), Tout va bien (1972), and Letter to Jane (1972).
Gorin left France in the mid-1970s to accept a teaching position at the University of California, San Diego at the urging of the film-critic and painter Manny Farber. Gorin remained on the Visual Arts faculty thereafter, teaching film history and film criticism. He continued to make films—most notably a "Southern California trilogy" of essay films: Poto and Cabengo (1978), Routine Pleasures (1986), My Crasy Life (1991), and Letter to Peter (1992). Gorin describes his concept of Poto and Cabengo in 1988:
The film is about an unstructured discourse—the language of the twins—surrounded by structured discourses—the discourse of the family, the discourse of the media, the discourse of therapy, the discourse of documentary filmmaking.... [The twin's language] erupts as a subversive act which has not been authorized by any social or ideological establishment. In a sense its special threat is that its “unauthorized” nature relativizes the arbitrary nature of those institutionalized discourses. The singsong of the twins reveals the shaky grounds of institutional power. It relativizes discursive authority from the family to the scientific community in their competitive and ineffectual attempts to “define” the twins who spontaneously flit about the screen exceeding any definition. Biography
Jean-Pierre Gorin a été étudiant de Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault et Jacques Lacan. Entre 1965 et 1968, il travaille au journal Le Monde, plus particulièrement à la création du supplément littéraire Le Monde des Livres.
Il rencontre Jean-Luc Godard en 1967 et le conseille pour La Chinoise, en l'introduisant dans le milieu maoïste français.
Il travaille ensuite avec Godard pour le Groupe Dziga Vertov. Il collabore notamment avec Godard sur le montage de Vent d'Est.
À l'automne 1972, il ambitionne de tourner son propre film, L’Ailleurs immédiat. Le film reste inachevé ; c'est à ce moment-là que Godard et Gorin se brouillent définitivement.
Gorin quitte la France en 1975 pour aller enseigner à l'université de Californie à San Diego sur l'invitation du peintre Manny Farber.
En 2004, le festival International du film Entrevues à Belfort lui consacre une rétrospective.
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