Alain Jouffroy
Birthday: 1928-09-11
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Alain Jouffroy, born on September 11, 1928 (Enkutatash) near Parc Montsouris, Paris, is a French writer, poet and artist. He was the first advocate of an Art Strike and formed the Union of Writers during the strikes of May 1968 in France with Jean-Pierre Faye. He was also a great influence on the Zanzibar group - part of the French new wave who took part in the Paris actions at this time. He won the Prix Goncourt for poetry in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Jouffroy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
La Collectionneuse
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the R...
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A partire dal dolce
"A partire dal Dolce brings together "portraits-interventions" of a dozen or so thinkers, artists, f...
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Destroy Yourselves
Detruisez-vous is a ‘primitive’ film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It’s the first Zanzi...
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Fun and Games for Everyone
“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset'...
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Lire
Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound s...
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L'abolition de l'art
Made in 1968, this is the only film by the writer, artist, poet, art critic Alain Jouffroy. This fil...
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