Jean-Jacques Mréjen

Filmes

Apocalypse Mode
Cinematography
After decades of growth and ostentation, when every excess was allowed, the fashion industry is currently at a turning point, caught up in the political issues that are reshaping our times: climate change and sustainable development, cultural representation and appropriation, equality, gender issues... Brands and creators are now subject to increasingly sharp public scrutiny. How is the fashion industry facing these challenges and responding to this new paradigm? Based as it is on the concept of planned obsolescence, can fashion survive?
Megafires: The Global Threat
Cinematography
For more than a decade, wildfires of unprecedented force have been devouring our lives, homes and forests at a steady pace. Each year, 350 million hectares of forest go up in smoke, the equivalent of six times the size of France. In the US, the fire season now lasts up to two months longer than a generation ago, and the surface burnt annually has multiplied by three. This film sets out on a gripping journey of investigation from Europe to the US, Canada, Brazil and Indonesia to follow the work of a global team of dedicated firefighters, scientists and fire experts as they investigate why our forests are going up in flames, and act on an unexpected discovery: if we want to save our forests, homes, health and our climate, we need to radically change our attitude towards fire and the way we fight wildfires.
Bikes vs Carros
Camera Operator
Em tempos de uma crise generalizada, é necessário relacionar algumas discussões no que tange ao clima, recursos naturais e cidades. A indústria automobilística cresce desenfreadamente. Ciclistas militantes buscam mudanças radicais na mobilidade das grandes cidades. As diferenças no uso de bicicletas e de carros são gritantes em comparação entre algumas cidades, como São Paulo e Copenhague.
Nucléaire, la grande explication
Cinematography
Vivre à Tazmamart
Cinematography
The film recounts the resistance of these men detained for eighteen years in Tazmamart , a former barracks that became the symbol of Morocco 's dark years, as the conditions of those who were imprisoned there were so inhuman and arbitrary.
ZAP (Act Up Paris, été 95)
Cinematography
Bab El Oued City
Director of Photography
Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
Camera Operator
Pan in A Minor: Steelbands of Trinidad and Tobago
Director
A documentary film directed by French film-makers Daniel Verba and Jean-Jacques Mrejen on the history and development of the steel-drum, said to be the only musical instrument to have been invented in the twentieth century.
Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out
Assistant Camera
A family or Algerian origin comes back to Algeria after having lived in France for a long time. The children, born in France, have a hard time adapting to Algerian society, and the contrast between traditionalist mentalities and youth wanting to have fun clash, reaching havoc in the village.