Jean-Claude Taki

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 ...

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