Jessica Forde
Nacimiento : 1966-02-21, London, England, UK
Historia
Jessica was born in London, Great Britain. Her father is British, her mother French. She has both British and French nationalities. She works as a stills photographer since 2003 taking advantage of her previous experiences as an actress and her passion for photographic techniques. Her first film as an actress, Eric Rohmer's Four adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, set her sights on the cinema. She has acted in French, Italian and English with over thirty directors, notably Eric Rohmer, Jacques Doillon, Jean-Jacques Beinex, Josiane Balasko, Carlo Mazzacurati, Raul Ruiz, Tsui Hark... And with actors such as Michel Piccoli, Patrick Timsit, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mickey Rourke, Richard Berry, Daniel Auteuil... Jessica has a passion for storytelling in it's various forms. In the passed years she has been especially focusing on photography, documentary, and cinema techniques. She enjoys working alongside different cinematographers and so, forging her own eye to framing and lighting. She has directed 3 short films and one 52 minutes documentary. - IMDb Mini Biography By: By: J.Forde
Still Photographer
Dos apuestos y aventureros hermanos que se dedican a robar coches de importantes marcas viajan al sur de Francia en busca de nuevos retos, pero en su camino se topan con un peligroso criminal local que retrasa su hazaña.
Still Photographer
Michael Mason es un carterista estadounidense que vive en París que de repente se encuentra en manos de la CIA al robar un bolso que contiene algo más que una cartera. Sean Briar, el agente del caso, pronto se da cuenta de que Michael es sólo un peón dentro de una gran conspiración criminal. Briar decide entonces reclutar a Michael para que le ayude a desenmascarar y luchar contra esa red de corrupción.
Still Photographer
En una sociedad utópica futurista, las emociones humanas han sido erradicadas y todo el mundo vive en paz. Pero cuando unas enfermedades nuevas surgen, todo cambia para el ilustrador Silas y su ayudante, Nia. Ambos están infectados, y para sobrevivir, deben huir juntos.
Reporter
En la Francia de los años 20, durante la época dorada del jazz, un mago inglés está decidido a desenmascarar a una falsa médium. Esto desencadenará una serie de hechos mágicos que sacudirán la vida de ambos.
Still Photographer
Lucy, una joven obligada a ejercer de mula de una nueva y potente droga, adquiere de repente enormes poderes sobrenaturales cuando la bolsa de la droga se rompe y los narcóticos entran en contacto con su cuerpo. Entonces, su cerebro comienza a aumentar la capacidad de uso hasta poder ser utilizado al 100%, convirtiéndose en una máquina letal con habilidades extraordinarias.
Clothilde
Un antiguo miembro de la mafia que lleva 3 años retirado, viviendo una plácida vida dedicado a su mujer y a sus hijos, es atacado una mañana por unos hombres y dado por muerto después de recibir 22 balas. Pero sobrevivirá milagrosamente y buscará a Tony Zacchia, el único hombre capaz de atreverse a matarlo. Tony ha cometido solo un error, fallar en su intento.
Juliette
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
Delta Three
Jack Quinn, uno de los mejores agentes antiterroristas del país, tras fracasar en su última misión contra el peligroso Stavros, despierta en La Colonia, un lugar en el que permanecerá encerrado de por vida. Ahora su familia es el único objetivo de Stavros. Sólo con la ayuda de Yaz, traficante de armas, podrá salvar la vida de su mujer y su hija.
A seducer finds himself in crisis when his woman makes him believe he has a lover. The search for the suspect rival has the upper hand, with unexpected results.
Hélène
Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?
Scarlet
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
Bibi
Adrien does not see eye to eye with his patrician father about much. It is 1912, and the old man still believes in the old rules which strait-jacket "men of class." He believes that the elite have the right to conquer where they can, that they should refrain from publicizing their improprieties, and he is rabidly pro-military. Adrian, kicked out of his military school for his own improprieties (and hiding that from his father), is naturally drawn to Vicky a beautiful divorced woman and friend of the family who is staying at their mansion. The family tutor, a man of ordinary background (with some ideas which seem radical in this household) is similarly smitten. On the basis of their shared attraction, the two men form a friendship. Meanwhile, the object of their affection finds it diverting to toy with them.
Fedora
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other. The key of E may be the key of true friendship, but it is Mozart that pushes them apart.
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...
Julie
Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean.
Mirabelle
Reinette y Mirabelle son dos muchachas de carácter muy distinto. Reinette es simple y entusiasta. Mirabelle es complicada y perezosa. Reinette vive en el campo. Mirabelle en París. Un día se conocen casualmente durante unas vacaciones de Mirabelle y, a partir de entonces nace, entre ellas, una profunda amistad.
La main de Manon
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...
Thérèse
Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the virus of misfortune.
N°608
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
