Jean-Noël Gobron
Directing
Biography
Jean-Noël Gobron was born in Belgium on 19th January 1954 as the son of the poet Marie-Jo Gobron (1916-2008) and the painter Roger Gobron (1899-1985). At the age of thirteen he realized his first super 8 film experiments. Four years later he left school to work in an industrial photographic studio and as a projectionist in a movie theatre. After a year he resumed school in order to study photography, plastic arts and film. In Brussels he graduated from the film school. In 1973 he creates the film club ZOOM and from 1974 onwards he worked on several motion pictures as camera operator and director of photography. In 1983, during a three months trip to Tokyo, he directed his first feature film. Two years later he founded the production house ALCYON FILM. Jean-Noël Gobron was active within various associations, such as the ABAFT (association of film and television authors), the ABPRF (association of producer-directors), the AJC (workshop of young filmmakers), the CBA (audio-visual center at Brussels), HOT DOC. (association for documentary makers), PROSPERE (authority gathering several associations) and the audio-visual commission of the SABAM. He also lectured cinema at the VUB (Flemish university of Brussels), the KASK (film academy of Ghent) and the NARAFI (film institute in Brussels. In 2018 after having lived for almost 45 years in Brussels, he leaves Belgium for France with his spouse Charmian Cabrera. There they create the art gallery ESPACE D’ART ROGER GOBRON, dedicated to the work of Jean-Noël’s parents.
Known For
Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands.
De droomproducenten
Leaving Europe to look for Akiko, Jean-Noël discovers her city, the exotic Tokyo. A documentary on everyday life in Tokyo, its KABUKI theater, its nostalgic TAKENOKOZOKU dances, its thousands of suit-and-tie executives, its geishas, its Western style marriages, its tranquil green areas, its pulsating nightlife...
Satori Stress
Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid over 4,000 Jewish children, rescuing them from deportation and extermination, , often risking their own lives. Directed by Myriam Abramowicz and Esther Hoffenberg, children of parents who spent the war in hiding, the film inspired the creation of The Hidden Child, a world-wide network of hidden children, which, for three decades, has organized reunions of hidden children with the families who hid them in Belgium during WWII.
As If It Were Yesterday
A couple takes charge of mounting the film of love and war of a filmmaker friend faded away.
Noise of Love and War
Intimate portrait of Marie-Jo Gobron, belgian poet and the director's mother. 20 years after the release of a film about his father's paintings, the filmmaker continues the description of the artistic universe of his parents. Born in 1916 in Flanders near the French border, Marie-Jo writes mostly in French. Aged 85, she starts an autobiographical novel about her youth, its many events, and about her daring emancipation in art and love, which she confides here.
Portrait de ma mère poète
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Le journal de Joseph M.
The father through the eye of the son, the painter through the eye of the filmmaker. Started at random 10 years ago, the picture rewrites in a very subjective way the life of Roger Gobron - born in 1899 in Brussels - who, through his pictorial research, succeeded in giving watercolors a new dimension. "In Belgium, artists are evaluated according to the price of their paintings", A tribute to this simple and generous man who searched and painted watercolors his whole life.
Portrait de mon père aquarelliste
Two beings, a man and a woman, coming from elsewhere, find themselves in a church in ruins after all life on Earth has disappeared.
Futur antérieur
The daughters of Pandora on a special mission ...
Daughters of Darkness, revised and corrected
A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another.
Couple, regards, positions
One of the most intimate and obstinate filmmakers in Belgium, Boris Lehman acts, directs, produces, and distributes his films, single-handedly incarnating the essence of a creator who manages to survive on the fringes of his industry. From Brussels to Paris, friends, filmmakers and critics offer their understanding of a man for whom life is a reason to film, and film, a reason to live.
Against Time and Oblivion
Series of comic situations set up by improvisations with Luc De Smet around a character who walks along a wall.
Single tree street
The story of a man who confuses fiction and reality ... "Orwold" is the tragic history of an insignificant employee; an erratic figure who can't cope with the perspectiveless of his existence and therefore escapes in an imaginary world which eventually shall devour him.