John R. Pepper

John R. Pepper

Nacimiento : 1958-08-20, Rome, Lazio, Italy

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John Randolph Pepper (born 1958) is a photographer and theatre director. Pepper was born in Rome, Italy in 1958 to Curtis Bill Pepper, a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine, and the sculptor Beverly Pepper. He has one sister, poet Jorie Graham. He was raised in Rome, Italy. He studied History of Art at Princeton University (1976) where he was also one of the original painting members of the '185 Nassau Street Painting Program' and was awarded the Whitney Painting Fellowship in 1975. In 1981 Pepper was admitted as a 'Directing Fellow' to The American Film Institute, Los Angeles. Pepper began his career as an apprentice to Ugo Mulas who gave him his first formal training in the art of street photography. Pepper pursued his work in photography (analog) for three decades while simultaneously directing in the theatre and in film. His show 'Rome: 1969 – An Hommage to Italian Neo-Realist Cinema' (USA/France 2008) lead him back to his native Italy where Lanterna Magica Edizioni published the book Sans Papier (Italy 2011) with subsequent exhibitions in Rome, Venice, Saint Petersburg (Russia), Paris, Palermo (Sicily). In 2012 the Manège Museum in Saint Petersburg, (Russia) showed Pepper's new work which the Istituto Superiore Per la Storia della Fotografia (Italy) published as a new book of photographs in 2014 called 'Evaporations' that previews at the Officina delle Zattere in Venice (Italy). In 2015, the Italian Institute of Culture and the Russia Federation Ministry of Culture sponsored a traveling exhibition that opened at the Rosphoto Photography Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia). In March 2015 Pepper had a retrospective exhibit at the Showcase Gallery in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). The Italian Institute of Culture and The United States Mission in Russia sponsored a travelling exhibition (2015/2016) of Evaporations throughout Siberia, Russia (Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Samara and Moscow. From November 2016 to January 2017 Pepper's Evaporations / Испарения was shown in Rome, (Italy) at Fondazione Terzo Pilastro e Meditteraneo's, 'Museo Palazzo Cipolla'. The monumental exhibit consisted of 52 works ranging from 120 x160cm to 3m x 5m. ... Source: Article "John Randolph Pepper" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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John R. Pepper

Películas

Papillons de nuit
Director
Danny is impulsive and fights in series. Roberta has an unspeakable secret that robs her of sleep. From the first words their meeting is a real collision. Unexpected.
Nobody Loves Me
L'amant
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
La peste
Producer
La peste muestra cómo se afecta la vida en una ciudad tras ser declarada una epidemia de peste. Pero va mucho más allá y refleja como el desastre y la desgracia pueden hacer aflorar los mejores sentimientos y actitudes de las personas para luchar y lograr sobreponerse ante lo que consideran injusto. El protagonista, el doctor Rieux, se queda en la ciudad porque marcharse sería desertar, siente la necesidad de combatir para acabar con el mal, que tiene la forma de la temible peste bubónica. Esta enfermedad da al traste con las vidas e ilusiones de cientos de inocentes. El miedo inunda las calles, y, además del doctor Rieux, hay otras personas dispuestas a ayudar y conseguir terminar con el horror. El esfuerzo común logra que la peste acabe desapareciendo ante el júbilo de todos. Pero queda planteada la duda sobre si no es posible que la amenaza siga vigente y algún día regrese. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fireballs
Pepper
A Canadian fire station is threatened by a Japanese business.
Espectros
Marcus
Un arqueólogo descubre, bajo unas ruinas de Roma, lo que parece ser la morada del Averno. Como consecuencia, varias personas serán perseguidas en un viejo caserón por algo que nunca habrían imaginado: macabros espectros.
Un pequeño romance
2nd Assistant Director
Daniel es hijo de un taxista de París, y el padre de Lauren es el jefe de una multinacional americana en Europa. Ambos adolescentes acaban de descubrir el amor. Julius St. Toran, un viejo diplomático inglés, les cuenta a los chicos que para que el amor sea eterno es preciso ratificarlo con un beso bajo el veneciano Puente de los Suspiros.
Los bronceados
Italian guy (uncredited)
Un grupo de turistas llega a Costa de Marfil con la intención de pasárselo lo mejor posible y olvidar todos sus problemas.
Eva
The Little Boy
Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), un famoso escritor que vive en Venecia, acaba de publicar una novela cuyo éxito es tal que surge el proyecto de llevarla al cine. A partir de entonces, su vida social se intensifica: todo son fiestas y recepciones en su honor. Al mismo tiempo, Jones es feliz con su prometida Francesca (Virna Lisi). Pero un día conoce a Eva (Jeanne Moreau), una bellísima y sensual mujer que le hará perder la cabeza, a pesar de que es fría, calculadora y cruel en sus juegos de seducción.