Jean-Claude Mocik

Jean-Claude Mocik

Jean-Claude Mocik in 2012, photo Sara Holt
Born Jean-Claude Mocik
(1958-02-09)9 February 1958
Livry Gargan, France
Nationality  France
Known for Director

Jean-Claude Mocik, was born on February 9, 1958 in Livry Gargan. He is a film-maker, video director, a director and teacher.

Chronology

After studies of cinema and broadcasting in Paris VIII University, Jean-Claude Mocik worked with Pierre Jolivet : Strictement personnel (1985), Le complexe du kangourou (1986) and Jean-Pierre Mocky : Le Pactole (1985), La machine à découdre (1986). Then he became assistant-director of Jean-Paul Jaud : SOS Charlot (1983), La Marseillaise (1989). He realized fictions : Piste (1980), Moco Fictions(2007), documentaries : Théatre, Ecole Créativité (1982) and Looking For Beethoven ( 2012 ), experimental films : Paris Figure Simple ( 1986 ) and Nyc Nac Solo (1989[1]) and videos : Correspondance avec Jean-Luc Godard (1985) and Laos Noblabla (2011). At the same time, he developed visual prototypes such as Switcher Video Band. From 1985, he is particularly drawn to new technologies. He joined the Ars Technica Association connected to the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie uniting philosophers, artists, scientists such as Piotr Kowalski, Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond, Claude Faure, Jean-Max Albert, Sara Holt, Piero Gilardi, reflecting on the relationship between art and new technologies. In 1989, Dominique Noguez recommended him for the 1st Biennial of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. He showed a video installation in 12 TV monitors arranged in pyramid. In the 90s, he was considered one of the precursors of HDTV beside Jean-Christophe Averty, David Niles, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Jacques Barsac, Pierre Trividic, Hervé Nisic. He produced and realized experimental programs such as Dix-neuvième[2] for Canal+. In 1991, uniting his activities of R&D in audiovisual media conception, he created jcMCK, his own production company. In 1992, the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou showed his experimental movies and videos at the Cinéma du Musée curated by Jean-Michel Bouhours. Beside Catherine Desrosiers, Catherine Beuve-Mery and Maurice Séveno, Jean-Claude Mocik participated in the CICV of Belfort Montbéliard, with the conception of an interactive TV program. In December, 1993, at the request of the 35mm laboratory Les 3 Lumières,he inaugurated Switcher Vidéo Band, an experimental multicameras captation in Le Palace, Paris. In 1994, he left one of the main cooperatives of experimental films in Paris, Light Cône,[3] and made the decision to broadcast his experimental movies and video tapes exclusively thru his personal workshop.[4] Recommended by Olivier Bontemps and Christophe Valdejo, two art directors of Gédéon and founders of the agency View, the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani offered him, in 1995, the management of the department Cinéma-Vidéo of Fabrica,[5] the Research center on the Communication of Benetton, based near Venice. In November, 1996, Fabrice Michel and Alain Josseau[6] invited him to Toulouse to conceive and present a video installation entitled Video Solo in reference to his movie Nyc Nac Solo, shot in 1989 in New-York.[7] L’Atelier de Recherche d’Arte regularly broadcasts his films and vidéos. As a TV director, Jean-Claude Mocik collaborated on numerous programs broadcast on diverse TV channels: Paristroïka, produced and broadcast by MCM Euromusique, Tout Paris for Paris-Première, L’Atelier 246 for FR3, Court Circuit,[8] produced by MK2 broadcast by Arte. He created concepts of documentary series of which Le Travail en questions,[9] a collection of 10 × 52 min animated by Ariel Wizman and Francis von Litsenborgh,[9] were broadcast on La Cinquième. Since 2006, he is in charge of an educational department of Conception, Writing and Directing within the Pole of Education and Research of INA.[10] In 2007, he wrote the screenplay and directed Moco Fictions a visual film essay completely shot with a robot. In 2013, he filmed in Vienna, Austria, Looking For Beethoven,[11] a documentary film on Belcea Quartet for TV Mezzo and for a German music channel Unitel Classica. In February, 2014, at the request of Paul Ouazan, he contributed to a project entitled Le marcheur,[12] broadcast on Arte Creative.[13]

Research

Very early, Jean-Caude Mocik identifies himself in filmmaking as a "rythmicien" director. If scenes and sequences are generally imposed by the scenario and its narration, rhythmicien or metric cinema assumes to be indifferent to subject and story.[14] Images and sounds are detached from any production of meaning ; they are exclusively dedicated to a rhythmic layout where visual and sound elements are used as material for durations, rates, frequencies, times and cycles. A process is established with the aim of collecting visual dynamics in a structured composition. From shooting to editing, all cinematographic resources are considered a priori sources of rhythm: axes and camera movements, lenses, editing, are thus subject to constraint through a rhythmic system (similar to music, metric or not), which offers unusual compositions on screen. Framings or pans, which are usually led by the movement of a character, are pre-set here: regardless of whether this character stays in the frame or not.[15]

Experiments

His work as a rhythmicien artist implies progressing over very long periods, like daily shots for over 24 years, (Séries circadienne[16]) or using 2 video cameras, shooting every two weeks at noon sharp, in the imposed itinerary at the gates of Paris, (Midi pile[17]). These projects, initiated in January 1994, continue today. Once a month in his workshop, projections that are held. His experimentations delve into his personal archives of films and videos, stored over time, in order to compose visual and sound arrangements specific to each session. The result is a kind of palimpsest in permanent mutation. The projection itself becomes form.

Filmography

Films

Video

TV

Exhibitions, installations, performances

Projections and broadcasting of experimental films and videos

Notes and references

  1. ↑ https://www.yumpu.com/fr/document/view/16672442/fevrier-mai-1994-centre-georges-pompidou-centre-pompidou/93
  2. ↑ http://collections.forumdesimages.fr/CogniTellUI/faces/details.xhtml?id=VDP5571
  3. ↑ http://lightcone.org/fr
  4. ↑ https://www.librairie-obliques.fr/livre/977055-paris-cinephile-gilles-renouard-parigramme
  5. ↑ http://www.fabrica.it/
  6. ↑ http://www.universcience.tv/video-alain-josseau-la-trahison-des-ecrans-6053.html
  7. ↑ http://www.arte.tv/fr/nyc-nac-solo/101496,CmC=598418.html + (http://nelsonsullivan.com/press/ARTEweb.pdf
  8. ↑ http://www.arte.tv/fr/dominique-noguez/988354,CmC=1006536.html
  9. 1 2
    http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/Chronicles_Ingest/InterNews_bag/data/InterNews/LeMonde/issues/1999/lm990228-tel.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.ina-expert.com/formation-professionnelle/conception-ecriture-realisation
  11. ↑ http://www.heliox.fr/Accueil.html
  12. ↑ http://creative.arte.tv/fr/labo/le-marcheur/birmanie-rangoun-0)
  13. ↑ http://creative.arte.tv/fr
  14. ↑ http://www.artshebdomedias.com/article/291210-jean-claude-mocik-artiste-est-mort-vive-artiste?page=0
  15. ↑ Elisabeth Jenny,Les conceptions du montage, CinémaAction N°72, 3ème trimestre 1994
  16. ↑ http://www.dailymotion.com/jcmck
  17. ↑ https://vimeo.com/130676876
  18. ↑ http://catalogue.bm-lyon.fr/?fn=ViewNotice&q=0001493001
  19. ↑ https://books.google.fr/books?id=OrwONnohANMC&pg=PA1974&lpg=PA1974&dq=jean-claude+mocik&source=bl&ots=YJZY2TpbVt&sig=ESVWhZv0pRK0Z1m2BMvLPOlfNXc&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBzgeahUKEwiU7svP4vbHAhVE2hoKHTQDBZU#v=onepage&q=jean-claude%20mocik&f=false
  20. ↑ http://www.liberation.fr/medias/1996/06/29/arte-dimanche-20h45-l-epopee-de-la-grande-boucle-des-portraits-de-poulidor-et-d-indurain-l-histoire-_173015
  21. ↑ http://catalogue.bm-lyon.fr/?fn=ViewNotice&q=0001493001, animé par Ariel Wizman
  22. ↑ http://www.festival-emergences.info/2006/festival/projet/46/index.html
  23. ↑ http://www.festival-emergences.info/2006/artistes/biographie/43/index.html
  24. ↑ http://www.parentesi.it/archivio
  25. ↑ http://www.skiralouise.com/fr/actualite.html
  26. ↑ 4e Festival International de l'Avant Garde
  27. ↑ 4e manifestation internationale de vidéo & télévision, intermedia
  28. 1 2 3 Programmation Yann Beauvais, Light-Cône
  29. ↑ Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne, Direction et programmation: Dominique Noguez
  30. 1 2 http://Pratiques, Recherches et Études Artistiques, Films récents 2, programmation Rose Lowder
  31. 1 2 http://www.cineastes.net/st/afea.html
  32. ↑ French Avant-Garde Film-Series, Program No.1, programmation: Howard Guttenplan
  33. ↑ Dépêche AFP : Vend Janv 12 14:26 1990, 0292 FRA /AFP-XW50, Courrier du cinéma
  34. ↑ Produire et réaliser en Vidéo Haute Définition et La Nuit de la HD, avec le soutien du C.N.C. et de la PROCIREP Télévision
  35. ↑ The French Avant-Garde in the 1980s, AGO, Toronto, Canada
  36. ↑ http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/fr/cinematheque/50ans
  37. ↑ http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/retrospective-jeune-dure-et-pure/program/

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