Jean-François Lyotard
Directing
Biography
Jean-François Lyotard (Vincennes, August 10, 1924 – Paris, April 21, 1998) was a French philosopher whose work is placed within poststructuralist and postmodern philosophy. He was primarily concerned with issues in aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. The central focus of his work was how one can justly bear witness to the unrepresentable and the disputes between various forms of speech. He himself rejected every attempt to develop a universal and overarching framework for this. Lyotard gained international fame with his book La condition postmoderne (1979), which popularized the term postmodernism. He considered Le différend (1983) to be his most important work.
Known For
Inside the claustrophobic scenery of a fancy apartment in the city of Frankfurt three men and a woman lock themselves in for ten days. Oskar and Julia are a couple. They have sex and let themselves be filmed. Benjamin and Bastian are behind the camera, trying to get pictures of absolute intimacy. Closeness as it can only be found among lovers.
The Great Ephemeral Skin
In L'Autre Scène, the images and the sound material try to manifest the mechanism of an advertisement around the blade.
L'autre scène
"A partire dal Dolce brings together "portraits-interventions" of a dozen or so thinkers, artists, friends of Gianfranco Baruchello (including extremely rare footage of Jean-François Lyotard), who comment on the concept of the "dolce" (gentle/soft/sweet)" Claudine Eizykman, Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Expérimental, February 2000
A partire dal dolce
Film produced by writer Daniel Soutif and filmmaker Paule Zajdermann, which combined original film images from the Les Immatériaux exhibition galleries with sequences where the philosopher and curator Jean-François Lyotard speaks about his philosophical conception for the exhibition, parallel to the interviews of scientific advisors of the exhibition.
Octave in Immaterials-Land
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Cinématon n°469 : Jean-François Lyotard
Experimental film consisting entirely of flickers.
Mao Gillette
This very singular self-portrait produced for a television platform, and which by the device of its own that it presents (shifted sound in voice-over) distinguishes this work from any tribune and deserves its title: Tribune sans tribun.