Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeJean-Gabriel Periot
*1974. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Jean-Gabriel Périot has directed numerous short movies, both in video and film. He builts, often from existing archives – photographs, films, internet files – a work of reflection on the polymorphic status of violence in our societies. Everything goes through the power of images, without speech, without comment: a thought-cinema.
Even if she had been a criminal… / France / 2006 / 10′ / 4:3
France, summer 1944. The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the war… Rare archival images illustrate the horror of collective fanaticism that outlasted World War II.