The Delicate Art
of the Bludgeon
Réalisé par Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2017




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

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.
