Jean-Michel Bouhours

Jean-Michel Bouhours

Born: August 9, 1956
in Brou, France
Master in cinema, University of Paris VIII-Vincennes. Co-founder of Paris Films Coop in 1976. Member of the board of Light Cone between 2008 and 2016. In charge of film programs then first curator for the film, head of cinema department between 1992 and 2003 at Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou. Director of Nouveau musée national de Monaco 2003-2008. Curator in chief, head of Modern collections at Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou since 2008. Curator and historian of art free lance since 2017.

Movies for Jean-Michel Bouhours...

Cinématon XV
Title: Cinématon XV
Character: N°145
Released: November 8, 1981
Type: Movie
Reel 15 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°145
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Melba Film Coop
Title: Melba Film Coop
Character: Himself
Released: June 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Covers the making of the multicolored magazine for technological arts, Melba, edited by Claudine Eizykman and in which Guy Fihman, Dominique Willoughby, among others, were active participants, with 5 issues published between 1976 and 1979.