Tower 36 #1 - Limited Edition 1 of 1 Photograph

Jean-Claude Taki lives and works in Paris. Musician at first, he has worked on many films (short and documentary films) as a sound operator and composed soundtracks. At the same time, he made his own short films for which he received prizes in French and foreign films festivals. Then he made his first feature film Aurore/Number 9. Since 2005, invited by the Forum des images in Paris, he has continued his work as a filmmaker and has extended his search for new formal and narrative ways of filmmaking by using a mobile phone as a camera. His films are then shown as well in cinema as in art center [LACDA (Los angeles Center of Digital Art) / Museum of Contemporary Art Washington DC,...]. His narrative themes are always absence, traces, dissolution, disappearance. His book LETTRES KAZAKHES edited by the Editions Intervalles in November 2007 is an epistolary novel illustrated by Guillaume Reynard. In August 2008, a retrospective of his films has been presented at the Open Cinema International Films Festival in St Petersburg - Russia. February 2010, he presented "Self-Portrait 365" in the group exhibition "The real new opium?" at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire - Paris. In june 2010, a retrospective of his films has been presented at the Forum des images in Paris. His feature film "SOTCHI 255" received the First Prize of the Jury at DOCUMENTA MADRID 2011 and the National Award Georges de Beauregard at the FIDMarseille - 2010. The Festival of Côté Court - Pantin 2012 devotes a focus to him. March 2013, exhibition HORIZON // TALES with Guillaume Reynard at the Alma Ata Art Center and the French Consulate in Almaty - Kazakhstan. October 2013, it goes out to the Editions Intervalles "SOTCHI INVENTAIRE" (novel) and "SOTCHI POUR MEMOIRE" (poem accompanying the drawings of Guillaume Reynard) 2014-2015 realization of all the videos for the MMM-Mons Memorial Museum, museum on the theme of war, opened on 3 April 2015 in the framework of MONS capital of European culture (Museums: Winston Spriet and Martial Prévert - multimedia design : Christian Barani) In 2014-2016, Jean-Claude Taki is hosted in a cinematographic residence at the Espace Khiasma, Les Lilas, within the framework of the program of La fabrique Phantom with the support of the department of Seine-St-Denis, the town of Bobigny, and Of the National Audiovisual Institute.