Jean-Pierre Gorin Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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.
Always stresses the importance of the use of space in film when giving talks.
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"Grad school is more interesting for the peers that you meet than the teachers that you meet." (on going to grad school)
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(1998-) Teaches film history and criticism, filmmaking at University of California, San Diego. (1998)
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Nicknamed "Totoro" after the Hayao Miyazaki character by his students in Japan. The reason for this is because the character only appears to children with a pure heart and his students felt that he did as well.
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Received Licence de Philosophie at University of Paris-Sorbonne.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
1992
TV Movie documentary
My Crasy Life
1992
Documentary
Routine Pleasures
1986
Documentary
Poto and Cabengo
1980
Documentary
Ici et ailleurs
1976
Documentary original footage: 1970
Bande-annonce de 'Tout va bien'
1972
Short
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1972
Documentary uncredited
Tout va bien
1972
Vladimir et Rosa
1971
uncredited
Lotte in Italia
1971
uncredited
Le vent d'est
1970
uncredited
Cinétracts
1968
Documentary uncredited
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
History Is Made at Night
1999
story
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen