Jean-Pierre Beauviala

Jean-Pierre Beauviala

Birth : 1937-07-22, Arles, France

Death : 2019-04-08

History

Jean-Pierre Beauviala is a French electronic-engineer, filmmaker, photographer, cinematographer, producer and actor.

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Jean-Pierre Beauviala

Movies

La rouge et la noire
Self
Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally, LA ROUGE ET LA NOIRE is a film in kaleidoscope form. The portrait of Aatons founder, Jean-Pierre Beauviala creator, inter alia, of the time-code and the light cameras used by the New Wave (in particular the bush camera specially designed for Jean Rouch) is centered around the basic plot introduced by two women thieves who talk as voice-overs, and whose identities will only be revealed at the end.
Incognito
Hans
An almost blind writer moves to a hidden property in an Alpine village with a female friend, Renata. The two play sado-masochistic games including long recitals of elaborate texts. A neighbor, Serge, gets interested in the mysterious couple.
Favourites of the Moon
Colas
The story revolves around two objects, a rare set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century aristocratic portrait. As these items are passed, sold, or stolen from one character to another, a giddy round dance of excess begins to take shape, one which suggests that if history doesn't repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose other co-writing credits include Repulsion and Tess, Otar Iosseliani uses a feather-light touch to expose the futility of class and social order, making a bagatelle of the concerns of rich and poor alike.
Opération fermes ouvertes, Larzac Pâques 72
Director
Documentary on the mobilization of citizens and farmers against the important enlargement of a military camp in Larzac (France).