Mathieu Jean-Baptiste
director, videographer
After studying sociology and cinema, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu has been working as a filmmaker and video installation designer since 1990. "Like a still opera" is his first film, made with few means and noticed in several festivals. video art around the world. His second film, "L'homme à la reverste", a variation on the theme of the artist's portrait, approaches the world of the painter Bernard Quesniaux. Subsequently, he directed for various television channels (France 3, Canal +, Arte, Mezzo) documentaries around artistic creation, music videos and "Mer agitée", a short fiction film with the comedian Jean- Luc Bideau. He also recreates for Anton Tchekhov's Arte "Uncle Vania", based on Julie Balchen's staging with Jeanne Balibar, as well as "Le Petit Chaperon rouge" composed and directed by Georges Aperghis.
At the same time, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu is also interested in memory. Produced on the occasion of a theme night by Arte, "Mémoire de fer" travels through the ruins of the Lorraine steel industry, while "Bonheur maximum garanti", a montage film produced for L'oeil du Cyclone on Canal +, revisits the Glorious Thirties from multiple archives.
In his most personal film, "An American Father," he tries to observe within his own family how the absence of a father is transmitted from one generation to the next.
His work is on the border between documentary, fiction and experimentation.
