Jessica Forde
出生 : 1966-02-21, London, England, UK
略歴
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
高級クラシックカーを専門とする車泥棒アンドリューとギャレットのフォスター兄弟。凄腕で知られる彼らは、警戒厳重なオークション会場から、世界に2台しかない37年型ブガッティを盗み出した。だが、その車を落札したのが大物ギャングのモリエールだったことから、2人は身柄を拘束されてしまう。モリエールは、命が惜しければ敵対するギャングのクレンプが持つ62年型フェラーリ250GTOを盗み出せと兄弟に命じる。
Still Photographer
革命記念日前夜のパリ市街で爆弾テロが発生し、捜査を担当することになったCIAのはみ出し者、ブライアー（イドリス・エルバ）は容疑者に浮上したスリの若者マイケル（リチャード・マッデン）を逮捕する。彼が無実であることを確信したブライアーはスリの腕前を買い、無実を証明するため捜査協力を持ち掛け、マイケルも承諾する。タッグを組んだ彼らは新たなテロを阻止すべく、真犯人を追うが……。
Still Photographer
世界戦争により、人類が滅亡の危機に直面した近未来。嫉妬や憎悪など、感情こそが人類の破滅をもたらす諸悪の根源とされ、かくして遺伝子操作により、感情を持たない人々の共同体が誕生。人々は厳重な監視下に置かれて、感情を“発症”した者は“欠陥者”の烙印を押され、安楽死を迎える運命にあった。自分の心の中にふと感情が芽生え始めたサイラスは、職場の同僚のニアも、実は感情を“発症”した“欠陥者”であることに気付く。
Reporter
魔法や超能力など信じない皮肉屋のイギリス人マジシャン、スタンリーは、ある大富豪をとりこにしているアメリカ人占い師の正体を暴いてほしいと頼まれる。南フランスの富豪宅を訪ねるも占い師ソフィが発揮する驚異的な透視能力にただただ驚かされ、それまでの人生観を覆される羽目に。その上、かれんな容姿で明るく活発な彼女に魅了されてしまう。
Still Photographer
ごく普通の平凡な女性ルーシーは、訪れた台北のホテルでマフィアの闇取引に巻き込まれ、下腹部にCPH4という新種の麻薬が入った袋を埋め込まれてしまう。この麻薬は通常10%までしか活用できない人間の脳の潜在能力を極限まで高めることができる恐ろしいものだった。運び屋として体内の麻薬と共に移動するよう命じられたルーシーだったが、麻薬を狙うマフィアに捕まってしまう。ルーシーは激しい拷問を受けるが、その拍子に体内の袋が破れ、彼女の脳は麻薬の力で覚醒し、超人的な力を発揮してその場から脱出する。
Clothilde
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...
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
A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.
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
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
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.
