Jean-Jacques Martinod
Directing
Biography
Jean-Jacques Martinod is a media artist, film curator, abyssology researcher and underground anarchist. Jean-Jacques Martinod’s work has been presented at leading festivals, museums and cinematheques, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, FID-Marseille, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Mar del Plata, First Look, Frontera Sur, PHI Centre Montreal, Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Cinemateca de Bogotá, European Media Arts Festival and others.
Known For

An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States, invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings of history, the power of nature and rebirth.
Eastern Anthems

An abandoned warehouse becomes a theater when men surrender their lives on stage to a game of chance.
Rota

Recipient of the "Jury Prize Award" from the Director's Guild of America, RÉMY tells the story of Manu, an apathetic twenty-three year old expatriate with a love for soccer, who spends his days goofing around with his aimless buddies. But when his girlfriend breaks up with him, and he encounters a pair of homosexuals that triggers memories from an uncomfortable past, Manu loses his cool... He ends up losing a lot more in the process.
Rémy

Isidro meanders through the rainforest as he recounts his various encounters with death.
Sandoval’s Bullet

In the outskirts of rural suburbia, two renegade hunters spend their days searching for game, the socially expendable being their victims.
Beast
2013 was the last summer where drive-in movie theaters in the United States of America utilized 35mm projection for exhibition. In the southeastern states of the country, while the surface of the screen reflects the images, different scenarios play out in the dark. Subsurface rituals find voice in the dead of night while diurnal happenings slowly eat away the vague architecture of a bracketed past.
Ozoners

A reclusive glass artist lives in solitude within the dense, misty forests of Southern Appalachia and the infernal fires of a foundry. A cinematic study on mountain alchemy and its relationship to fire.
The Hollow

Within the ancient precambrian rock of northern Canada lies one of the largest reserves of Uranium on the planet. A power that has produced the greatest destructive energy known to man, it also manifests itself in the natural glory of the region. A Gothic travelogue that calls for dialogue with the ghosts of the region; mining towns swallowed up in the pandemonium of trade, extraction and abandonment. While unknown forces that inhabit these lands speaks in somber memories.
Before the Deluge

The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.
Datura's Aubade
In an ubiquitous image void a spirit voice explains.
El Diezmo
short film by Jean-jacques Martinod
Blich Munrush

A collage of memories turned sensory vision, from the Sahara desert to the waters of South America.