Jacques Perconte

Périls, péril (2024)

L’Effort, le monde (2024)

For this new work created for Le Générateur, Jacques Perconte sensually captures the high mountains, the camera listening to a few mountaineers suspended in their efforts between skies and stones, their hearts vibrating to the rhythm of their gestures, b ...

Coma Serrat (2023)

Blanc Mont Blanc (2023)

Frozen carbon storms, fused rocks caught in eternity, spatial variations in temperature, uneven topography, and modulations of undulatory frequencies, the stone lives. ...

Céleste Terrestre (2023)

Immersed in gold and then in the sun, Mont Blanc shines with all its body in this piece. The long camera movement up the mountain from the foot of the crumbling rock piles to the beginning of the snowfall, crossing the glaciers, describes the mythical moun ...

or, granite, gneiss, glace (2023)

In the heart of the mountains, the most precious minerals are hidden in the stone. Some people read the history of our universe in the rock folds, while others see signs of possible veins they could exploit. If concentrations were once too low to generate ...

Salammbô (2022)

Salammbô is an alchemical game between my images, Othman Louati's music vibrating in Noé Nillni's trumpet and Gustave Flaubert's text carried by Julien Ribeill's voice. ...

Silesilence (2022)

The window of an apartment in Rotterdam leads us to the outskirts of an industrial industrial port, a strident and devouring machine that pours out its flames. In front of this infernal and metallic spectacle, the horizon appears obstructed. The steel fact ...

15000ft (2021)

Infinite Loop. "Filmed during a flight to Mont-Blanc, this summit adventure offers us a rare point of view of many peaks threatened by the disappearance of the ice which keeps them in balance. Carried away by the turbulence of the winds which prevent a uni ...

Printtemps (2020)

For Jean-Luc Godard, with all the admiration and affection of Jacques Perconte and Nicole Brenez. December 3, 2020. ...

Before the Collapse of Mont Blanc (2020)

"Mountains are falling, and there's nothing we can do about it. And even if we have the means to rise to their height to admire them, to surpass those inaccessible peaks where many explorers lost their lives trying to gain the privilege of overcoming them, ...

MEG 2152 (Perspectives For the 22nd Century) (2020)

Music by Jean-Jacques Birgé. ...

Par ma fenêtre (2020)

From Rotterdam. ...

Le Tempestaire (2020)

Infinite Loop. In his Tempestaire (2020), Jacques Perconte digitally interprets the meteorological imagery of Jean Epstein's film Le Tempestaire (1947). After capturing images of a storm in Cap Fagnet, Normandy, Perconte translates the atmospheric vibratio ...

Une Chanson d’anniversaire (2020)

At the end of October (a few days before my birthday actually) Nicole asked me to produce a small film for a great man, a short film, a film like a birthday song, a common gift. Nicole sends me many portraits that she likes very much, some are historical d ...

Or / Aour (Vienna) (2019)

The agitation of matter plays on balance of everything : nothing is fixed. Carried by the force of gold flowing in their bodies, the swallows weight hardly at all. In flight, they get rid of these shadows that no longer serve. They are the light that goes ...

tenir l'horizon presque deux minutes par un froid raisonable (2018)

without gloves ...

Or / Our (Budapest) (2018)

Quenched in the Klimt's gold, the aurora upon Budapest shines of thousand fires. The tiny birds seam to be flying from the firmament and dancing. Immensity and calmness enter indeed in resonance with the fluxes of the Earth. Our entrails, as pulled by the ...

Or / Or (Hawick) (2018)

In the Klimt's gold brought to the melting point by a flaming afternoon sky above Hawick, in the south of Scotland, one bird is crossing the sky. From one end of the horizon to the other, its flight defies space and time, to the extent of making them bend ...

Albâtre (2018)

With the immense freighters, the colors of the horizon will come, pushed by the winds, to take the whites of the cliffs, to project them in the green of the vegetation... ...

Japa n°4 (2018)

"What is a mantra? Mantra is two words: Man and tra. Man means mind. Tra means the heat of life. Rameans sun. So, mantra is a powerful combination of words which, if recited, takes the vibratory effect of each of your molecules into the Infinity of the Cos ...

Faust (2017)

Twenty Nine Minutes at Sea (2017)

A peaceful image transforms imperceptibly into a blood-red scene. Below the soothing waves of the sea, deep unrest simmers. Digital impressionism. An inner journey in our relationship with violence and memory, through a patient deconstruction of the image, ...

Patiras (2017)

The island of Patiras is the first land on the water of the estuary of the Gironde (west south of France). It is the first place where the winds of the ocean sink. It is a modest land with no relief. At the point, there is a shelter, an observatory overhun ...

Japa n°1 (2017)

These few steps in the forest are a hundred and eight times that we see them. With each new repetition, the colors slide and feed. The color reflects the inner journey. ...

Japa n°2 (2017)

This second repetition engages time even more, it is a hundred and eight times that we see these few two minutes already slowed down. With each new repetition, the colors slide and feed. The color reflects the inner journey. ...

Le Quinte Alpi (2017)

A new adventure above the Alps. ...

Vielle-Saint-Girons, Untitled #3, Recording #2 (2016)

A recording of a generative work by Jacques Perconte. ...

Save My Heart from the World (2016)

The wind blew from the starting of the Ferry. Offshore, the swell could make the travel difficult, but that boat would split the sea and project its Mediterranean blue in the golden sky and the fire light of the setting sun in the waves. The horizon would ...

Blés, Agenvillers (2016)

Buccleuch Church on the Kirk Burn (2016)

"The camera always returns to these places by the same paths, the same looks. The river from above, this ruined tomb always on our left, sometimes an uninterrupted ascent towards the peaks and the sun. The forest seems to always remain the same, indifferen ...

Ettrick (2015)

Made over the course of several visits to the Scottish Borders by the French artist filmmaker Jacques Perconte, the film interrogates the Scottish borders unique heritage : sheep farming, fabrics, the woolen mill tradition and our unique landscapes are all ...

M (Madeira) (2015)

Far off the coast of Africa, Madeira emerges from the ocean. It is the vast summit of an ancient volcano. As explorers we discover the coast, dive into the virgin forest and go through its million colors in the trough of valleys bathed in magical lights. M ...

Hypersoleils (2015)

Musician Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of the band AIR, and filmmaker Jacques Perconte, who works with Jeff Mills, an artist known for his colors and landscapes, who sculpts with his digital palette. Together, they created especially for the opening of th ...

Vine journal n°12 (2015)

Vine journal n°4 (2014)

L (2014)

A gentle and patient travelling camera accompanies sunrise on the Père Lachaise cemetery, and by continual metamorphosis of the visual material shows a break through crossed by a chromatic life inexhaustible variations. A film born from Léos Carax's Hol ...

Mistral (2014)

The infinity of an extraordinary landscape, a canoe trip down the Ardèche gorges. The image is lodged in a stone vault in a sacred place. ...

Colorama (2014)

Colorama is a love story, where the image and bodies embrace and tell their stories. ...

Árvore da Vida (Madeira) (2013)

The tree of life, an almost monochromatic cycle where the dominant is not an absolute rule. Here is a tree in the forest. It is from it that life arises full of wisdom. The awakening of a simple presence for the story of a life. From one green to another, ...

Vine journal n°2 (2013)

Paris (2013)

First series of tracking shots through the streets of Paris. The digital lights of Paris in early spring sparkle from Belleville to the Marais. ...

Santa Maria Madalena (2013)

Generative film 2013. ...

Chuva (2012)

The entire film is based on one motionless shot of the sea, behind which rises a hill and in the middle floats a boat. The tension rises with the changing autonomy of the image. ...

Libres (2012)

Misappropriation of the background from the 2012 N.S poster: "A Strong France". The poster is once more subverted. But this time, it is up to you to hear, to see, and to understand what it means. The future belongs to us ! ...

Impressions (2012)

A film about the magic power of nature. A journey to the heart of impressionistic Normandy. A colorful stroll in search of light and time. ...

Sassetot-le-Mauconduit (2012)

It may be the view of the ocean from the cliffs that I prefer in Upper Normandy. It is from these two plans that my film impressions started. It is from these two plans that all my films leave since indirectly. The magical power of nature and the infinite ...

Après le feu (2010)

A few kilometres from Ajaccio, the burnt earth gives in to the weight of colour. The ground opens up and frees pictorial energies that take over the sky. I see the horizon disappear, but I keep it in my sights. The train continues on its way... ...

A fleur d’eau… (2009)

In South West Corsica Crossing Ajaccio's Gulf to Sanguinary islands on the edge of the boat waterline. The sun burst the blue of the Mediterranean sea, and scum it shines a thousand crystals. This is a pure detection film. ...

Satyagraha (2009)

The Satyagraha (from Sanskrit सत्याग्रह) or embrace the truth "(satya = truth agraha = seizure) is the principle of non-violence civil disobedience that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was introduced. What happened to the values of Gandhi toda ...

Pauillac, Margaux (2008)

On a Tuesday morning in April, I leave the island of Patiras to return to Bordeaux. I cross the Médoc while the sun is rising. The light hits the train's window, cutting across the landscape. All I can do is film. So I stick my small camera against the wi ...

White Altaïr (2007)

The universe upside down, the form emerges from the light. The body emerges from the image. Everything becomes one. Digital critters vibrate and fly. The order is no longer the same…. ...

Le soleil de Patiras (2007)

The tour of the island at sunset. The light taps the sensors and saturates the colors. The boat spins and the water shakes me but I do not stop to fix the banks. The time could be suspended. There will never be a powerful enough way to capture the moment. ...

Uishet (2007)

On a bright morning in May 2005 in Landes on the current of Huchet, between the river mouth and the "pas-du-loup" island, I shot a movie which will be like those of the series of naturalistic journeys towards abstraction... ...

Uaoen (2003)

A half-hour immersion under the trees, road after road, with a succession of landscapes from the Périgord Noir... "uaoen" is a dreamlike film that leads the spectator through a landscape in transformation: in turn, its image is transformed, tree by tree, ...

Isz (2003)

A bouquet of roses her. Petals brush up against each other. And this goes on as the image traces the feelings which invade me. The forms mingle, blend, and carress one another. Sixteen minutes to let oneself be carried off in this swirl of pink clouds. ...

Esz (2002)

Rhythmic convulsions, erotic syncopations, mechanics of bodies, red invading shadows and tinting the skin… ...

Snsz (2002)

Experiment in abstraction through the discovery of bodies and of the senses: six moments in a story of a meeting. The story of two (or three) bodies. Stigmas, decompression, red. Black. Several days. Several short stories. Green. Yellow. Abstract pornograp ...

Early Abstraction (2002)

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XSZ (2002)

The bodies mix. The hands rhythm, the kisses slide. Time is going red. The view is to be reinvented. The story of this meeting is music. The video is his skin. The projection is in bed. ...

Corps Numériques (1998)

Historical single - band video on the question of my approach: exploration of digital bodies in 13 sequences. ...

Promenade (1998)

Jacques Perconte takes us on the heels of a silhouette that will gradually take on the final shape of a young woman. Divided into three scenes of different durations and speeds, "promenade" immerses us from the start in a nocturnal atmosphere, dense than i ...

razer (1996)

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Silesilence (2022)

The window of an apartment in Rotterdam leads us to the outskirts of an industrial industrial port, a strident and devouring machine that pours out its flames. In front of this infernal and metallic spectacle, the horizon appears obstructed. The steel fact ...

The Image Book (2018)

In Le Livre d'Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the ...