Jean-Christophe Averty

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Jean-Christophe Averty

Jean-Christophe Averty (born August 6, 1928 in Paris ; † March 4, 2017 ) was a French director and television maker. Many of his TV productions from the 1960s are forerunners of video art .

Life

A graduate of the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC), he started working for television in 1952.

For television, he directed music videos for singers such as Yves Montand , France Gall , Georges Brassens , Dalida , Gilbert Bécaud and Serge Gainsbourg .

He was instrumental in the video development and introduction of the blue screen on TV, so among other things with his 141-minute film A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969), in which Claude Jade , Christine Delaroche and Jean-Claude Drouot the leading roles in front of a blue screen play . The first broadcast was described by France Soir as an "epoch-making date" and declared by Le Monde as "chef-d'œuvre" and was shown several times on German television. Averty also adapted the plays King Ubu and Alice in Wonderland for television . He was also responsible for the production of music programs with John Coltrane ( A Love Supreme , Festival in Antibes-Juan les Pins, 1965), Yves Montand , Gilbert Bécaud , Johnny Hallyday , Serge Gainsbourg and Juliette Gréco .

Averty, he received numerous French awards, including the titles Officier des Arts & Lettres and Officier de la Légion d'Honneur . In 1969 he also received the Adolf Grimme Prize in silver for the program Pop und Musik .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'auteur et réalisateur Jean-Christophe Averty est mort. In: Le Monde . March 4, 2017, accessed March 4, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Averty, Jean-Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director and television maker
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2017