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The Delicate Art

of the Bludgeon

 

Réalisé par Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2017

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SYNOPSIS

Sensitive police art in hostile environments.

The crew

Technical data

Directed by
Jean-Gabriel PÉRIOT

Documentary - France - 2017

4' - HD – Black & White – Stereo

Version

No dialogs

Production

Nicolas BREVIERE – Local Films​

Distribution

Local Films Distribution

International sales
Local Films

Festivals

Fest'Yves Arts / Etel / Special Jury Prize

Milano international film festival / Special Mention Miglior Aprile

Concorto / Pontenure / Young Jury Prize

Light Factory Filmmakers' Showcase / Best Documentary

 

Rencontres documentaires “traces de vie” / Clermont-Ferrand

Cinéma du Réel / Paris

Images mouvementées / Paris

Côté court / Pantin

Signes de nuit / Paris

Traverse video / Toulouse

Festival video / Orléans

FIAV / Nîmes

In&Out / Nice

Rencontres du cinéma européen / Vannes

KKO festival du court / Altkirch

Festival images contre nature / Marseille

Les instants vidéo / Marseille

Festival la première fois / Marseille

Partie de campagne / Ouroux en Morvan

Festival international du court- métrage / Lille

Corsica Doc / Ajaccio

Les machines expérimentales / Bordeaux

Festival intergalactique / Brest

Les escales documentaires / La Rochelle

Festival tous courts / Aix en Provence

Bobines sociales / Paris

Travelling / Rennes

Festival images et palabres / Thaillac

IndieLisboa / Lisbonne

Black & white festival / Lisbonne

Rec festival internacional de cinema / Tarragona

Ficbe / Berriozar

L'Alternativa / Barcelona

Ovni / Barcelona

Loop / Barcelona

VideoAKT / Barcelona

Filmets / Badalona

Curtocircuito / Santiago de Compostela

Na Rua / Santiago de Compostela

Festival de cine de Huesca

Festival internacional de cortos / Benicassim

Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema / Pesaro

Magmart / Naples
FilmVideo / Montecatini
Cortodrome / Fasano
International short film festival / Montefalco
Walthamstow international film festival
Holmfirth arts festival
Tampere international film festival
Red cross film festival / Turku
Minimalen / Trondheim
Rotterdam international film festival
Festival du court métrage / Namur
Oldenburg kurzfilmtage
Dok Leipzig
International short film festival / Detmold
Kurzfilmfestival Oberschöneweide / Berlin
Open-Air Filmfest / Weiterstadt
Bunter Hund / Munich
Regensburg kurzfilmwoche
Kurz film festival / Töging am Inn, Burghausen, Braunau am Inn
Director Lounge / Berlin
Go Short / Nijmegen
lens politica film festival / Helsinki
Oslo Screen Festival
Oslo short cut
Aarhus filmfestival
Timishort / Timisoara
Simultan festival / Timisoara
Artfilm / Trecin
Kinofest / Bucarest
Euroshort / Varsovie
Watch doc / Varsovie
Jihlava international documentary festival / Pragues
Gdansk doc film festival
Message to man international film festival / St Petersburg
Step, human right film festival / Kharkov
Athens international short film festival
Athens international film festival
Out of focus / Thessaloniki
International panorama of independent filmmakers / Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki international short film festival
Cairo video festival
Videoholica / Varna
Tabor film festival / Zabok
Videomedeja / Novi Sad
Documentary film festival / Herceg Novi
Alternative / Belgrade
Freenetworld / Nis
Ljubljana independent documentary festival
Ljubljana intenratinoal short film festival
Human right film festival / Sarajevo
Ankara international film festival
Teen international short film festival / Istambul
Festival international d’art vidéo / Casablanca
Expression en corto / San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
DOCSDF / Mexico
MIDBO / Bogota
Curta Cinema / Rio de Janeiro
International short film festival / Sao Paulo
Festival internacional de cine / Mar del Plata
Festival internacional de cortometraje / Santiago
Festival internacional de cortometrajes / Cusco
Fenaco / Lambayeque
Transcinema / Lima
Valvidia international film festival
Tribeca film festival / New-York
Cucalorus film festival / Wilmington
FICFA / Moncton
Flexiff / Auburn
Vibgyor film festival / Thrissur
0110 festival / New Delhi
Sapporo short film festival
Corto Tokyo

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Jean-Gabriel
Périot

Born in France in 1974, Jean-Gabriel has made several short films, in both video and cinema. He has developed his own editing style based on archive footage. Somewhere between documentary, animation and experimental, most of his works deal with violence and history. His works, including “Dies Irae”, “Même si elle avait été une criminelle...”, “Nijuman no borei” and “Le Diable”, have been shown at numerous festivals around the world and have won numerous awards. Her first feature, “A German Youth”, opened the Panorama section of the 2015 Berlinale, was released in France (and nominated in the Best Documentary category for the French César), Germany and Switzerland, and has won awards worldwide.

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