Jean-Christophe Averty
Jean-Christophe Averty is known for Ray Charles - Live in France 1961 (2011), Adieu Philippine (1962), La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022).
Biography
Jean-Christophe Averty (6 August 1928 – 4 March 2017[1]) was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique.
Many of his television productions from the 1960s were early examples of French video art. His studies were used in the following decades by the research groups of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA).
Averty was born in Paris. A graduate of the IDHEC film school, he started in television in 1952 at the then French Television Office. He directed over five hundred programs for television and radio, across all disciplines: fiction, documentary, drama, variety, and jazz. His many awards include an Emmy award in the United States.
Averty was appointed Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique in 1990, due to his fascination for Alfred Jarry and Pataphysique.
Averty made his reputation on his strong character, his taste for provocation and his sense for innovative television. His 1963 series The Green Grapes was infamous for a recurring sequence of a baby being put through a grater.
A keen connoisseur of jazz, Averty filmed the Jazz à Juan festival for many years. The pianist Martial Solal paid him a tribute in one of his compositions: Averty, c'est moi (Averty that's me).
Over 28 years, he hosted 1,805 episodes of his radio show Les Cinglés du music-hall, based on his own collection of jazz and variety 78s that he had bought in flea markets around the world. The show was cancelled in 2006 under Jean-Paul Cluzel's chairmanship of Radio France. The French section of the shows was based on notebooks entrusted to him by André Cauzard, filled with daily details of pre-war jazz music events.
Averty directed television shows where he applied his singular style to showcase the greatest francophone singers such as Françoise Hardy, Yves Montand, Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan, Juliette Greco, Georges Brassens, Dalida, France Gall, Serge Gainsbourg, Gilbert Bécaud, Guy Marchand, Léo Ferré, Tino Rossi, and Jean Sablon, and as well as foreign musicians such as Patty Pravo.
In 1969 Averty directed the TV movie Le Songe d'une nuit d'été, starring Claude Jade, Christine Delaroche and Jean-Claude Drouot, and filmed entirely in bluescreen.
His television creations are landmarks in their use of video as a mode of artistic expression. Averty made great use of characters filmed against a blue screen, overlaid on a drawn background. Examples are Sapeur Camembert, based on the eponymous work of Georges Colomb, and a production of Edmond Rostand's classic play Chantecler.
Averty was one of the last salaried directors of the French Production Company. In 2012, he entrusted the management, conservation and safeguarding of the rights of all of his television and radio works to the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA); nearly a thousand television programs on jazz, sports, fashion, variety and the theater.
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Questions about Jean-Christophe Averty
How many Jean-Christophe Averty films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 18 films with Jean-Christophe Averty, from 1957 to 2022.
What was the first Jean-Christophe Averty film?
The first Jean-Christophe Averty film in the catalogue is Adieu Philippine, from 1962.
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Known for
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6.8 Adieu Philippine
1962
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The Landlady
1958
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Ubu enchaîné
1971
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7.2 La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
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7.0 Melody
1971
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Ella Fitzgerald à l'Olympia
1963
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9.0 Musidora
1973
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6.0 The Carpathian Castle
1976
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10.0 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1969
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7.2 Ray Charles - Live in France 1961
2011
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5.0 Les verts pâturages
1964
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8.0 Aretha Franklin - Live in Paris
1977
Full filmography
37 films — 18 in the catalogue
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7.2
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Self (archive footage)
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6.0 Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory
2017 · Self
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Les trésors cachés des variétés
2017 · Self
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Au service de Jean-Christophe Averty mode Shakespeare
2016 · Self
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Au service de Jean-Christophe Averty mode Jarry
2014 · Self
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7.2
Ray Charles - Live in France 1961
2011
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8.7 Serge Gainsbourg – D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
2005
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Alfred Jarry - 1873-1907
1995
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8.0 Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête
1995 · self
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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
1992
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10.0 Les Mamelles de Tirésias
1982
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Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx
1981
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6.1 Émilie Jolie
1980
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8.0
Aretha Franklin - Live in Paris
1977
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10.0
Impressions d'Afrique
1977
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6.0
The Carpathian Castle
1976
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9.0
Musidora
1973
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Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel
1973
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7.0
Melody
1971
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La Lucarne magique
1971 · A personality
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Ubu enchaîné
1971
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Un beau ténébreux
1971
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6.3 Alice au pays des merveilles
1970
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3.6 Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
1969
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10.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1969
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9.0 Idea
1968
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Ça c'est Claude François
1967
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6.2 Ubu Roi
1965
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5.0
Les verts pâturages
1964
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Ella Fitzgerald à l'Olympia
1963
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6.8
Adieu Philippine
1962 · Le metteur en scène de 'Jazz Memories' (uncredited)
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Christmas Blues
1960
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The Landlady
1958
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5.5 It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957 · Assistant director (uncredited)
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Vacances à la mer
1951
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Une visite à l'exposition de 1889
no date
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The Beatles: Live in Paris
1965
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