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- This is a film about tarots and clairvoyance that is not aimed at proving anything, nor at mocking anybody. It does not pretend to state about para-psychological Belgium. It is a mere collection of conversations held with people who daily practice their divinatory skills. Rather than trying to find out if they were honest or crooked, I voluntarily committed myself in making portraits of people showing real faith and enthusiasm for their practice. Who are these practitioners? How do they work? Why do they do this? How do they explain these clairvoyance phenomenons? These are the type of questions that are asked in this documentary. To know if parapsychology really exists or not, would have been an interesting question, scientifically or philosophically. But, within the narrow frame of this film, the answer could only be tendentious or speculative in any case. Having thus considered this as a false problem, I have limited myself to recording the words of beings that are, first of all, humans.
- Tragicomedy about a deaf-and-dumb man, living with his chicken, who gets in trouble with his neighbours.
- A documentary about the actor (and the cinema) which bears witness to the fascination this profession exerts over a number of people from very different backgrounds.
- Leaving Europe to look for Akiko, Jean-Noël discovers her city, the exotic Tokyo. A documentary on everyday life in Tokyo, its KABUKI theater, its nostalgic TAKENOKOZOKU dances, its thousands of suit-and-tie executives, its geishas, its Western style marriages, its tranquil green areas, its pulsating nightlife... Yet, the commentary, which deliberately often strays away from the images, throws into question the objectivity of the documentary film. Here, what we see is inseparable from the experience of its young maker as he cast a loving eye on a people and its culture. GRAND PRIX NATIONAL DU FILM DE REPORTAGE ET D'AVENTURE 1984 ORIGINALITÉ DE L'AVENTURE VÉCUE ORIGINALITÉ DU MONTAGE MEILLEUR COMMENTAIRE Parti à la recherche d'Akiko, Jean-Noël découvre sa ville, Tokyo l'exotique. Documentaire sur la vie quotidienne à Tokyo, ses nuits chaudes, son théâtre KABUKI, ses danses nostalgiques de TAKENOKOZOKU, ses milliers de cadres cravatés, ses geishas, ses mariages à l'occidentale, ses quartiers campagnards... Mais le commentaire, en un décalage délibéré par rapport à l'image met en question toute l'objectivité du document filmé. La vision ici est inséparable du vécu du jeune réalisateur qui pose sur un peuple et une culture un regard amoureux. Fictional documentary by Jean-Noël Gobron Length: 75' - 16 mm & 1" - colour French or English version - 1984
- Intimate portrait of Marie-Jo Gobron, Belgian poet and the director's mother. 20 years after the release of a film about his father's paintings, the filmmaker continuous the description of the artistic universe of his parents. Born in 1916 in Flanders near the French border, Marie-Jo writes mostly in French. Aged 85, she starts an autobiographical novel about her youth, its many events, and about her daring emancipation in art and love, which she confides here.
- The daughters of Pandora on a special mission ...
- The story of a man who confuses fiction and reality ... "Orwold" is the tragic history of an insignificant employee; an erratic figure who can't cope with the perspectiveless of his existence and therefore escapes in an imaginary world which eventually shall devour him.
- The father through the eye of the son, the painter through the eye of the filmmaker. Started at random 10 years ago, the picture rewrites in a very subjective way the life of Roger Gobron - born in 1899 in Brussels - who, through his pictorial research, succeeded in giving watercolors a new dimension. "In Belgium, artists are evaluated according to the price of their paintings", Baudelaire wrote in 1864. It has not changed much. Faced with complete "official" indifference, my father painted his watercolors. One day, he wrapped up a painting to send it to an important art competition. Soon after, the parcel came back and while checking it very carefully, my father realized that it had not been opened. I made this film to make a stand for my father's work. I wanted to pay tribute to this simple and generous man who searched and painted watercolors his whole life. The making of the film gave me the opportunity to know and understand my father much better. But this work lead me to deeper introspection. By searching my parents' life I rediscovered my own existence.
- Filmed on location between 2001 and 2009, during the yearly party organised by the inhabitants of the Locquenghienstreet. A group of inhabitants decide to organise a party in their street which is located in the centre of Brussels. With this party they want to break the anonymity of the city, to get to know their neighbours and to appropriate public space.