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Jean-Pierre Gorin (b. 1943) is a filmmaker, film theorist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. Educated at the illustrious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, Gorin came of age in the 1960s as a radical Maoist steeped in new modes of critical theory. With Jean-Luc Godard he formed the Dziga Vertov Group, a revolutionary filmmaking collective whose work including Wind from the East (1969), Struggle in Italy (1970), and Vladimir and Rosa (1971), sought to depict an internationalist movement of students, workers and freedom fighters, deconstructing conventional cinematic grammar in order to recalibrate the politics of image-sound relationships. Gorin offered political and theoretical guidance that ignited what he referred to as “the revolutionary potential in aesthetics that Jean-Luc brought to his previous films.”
In 1975, Gorin immigrated to the United States where he completed three brilliant films, known as the ‘Southern California trilogy” that helped shape the documentary subgenre known as the essay film: Poto and Cabengo (1976), Routine Pleasures (1986), and My Crasy Life (1992). L’Alliance New York is honored to welcome Jean-Pierre Gorin for his long-awaited return to New York to present a special program of three of his films and three films he has selected which, as he did for several decades in his legendary classes, reintroduce and vindicate bygone treasures of French cinema.
Co-programmed by Yuka Murakami.