Jean de Segonzac

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Jean de Segonzac (rarely Jean DeSegonzac ) is an American director, cameraman and screenwriter . He mainly shoots documentaries and television series . He is known for his coarse-grained cinéma verité style police dramas.

Life

Jean de Segonzac is the youngest of four children from Adalbert and Madeleine de Segonzac. His father (nicknamed "Ziggy") was a French journalist and worked for two decades as the chief correspondent for France Soir newspaper in Washington, DC. He was also a president of the Foreign Press Association. Jean de Segonzac graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 .

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One of the first known works of Jean de Segonzac was his work as a cameraman for the documentary Born on the Fourth of July in 1985. His second major work was Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989), followed by Crack USA: County Under Siege , an HBO production that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature . Jack Mathews of the LA Times called his camera style "intrusive". In 1991 he was in the documentary Where Are We? Our Trip Through America , which followed gay filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman as they moved from town to town interviewing locals. Newsday wrote: “The success of this film is largely owed to the cameraman Jean des Segonzac, whose keen camera eye also includes such unusual details as a copy of The New Sweden on the coffee table in a demonstration model of a trailer or a kitten emerging from a kidney-shaped miniature swimming pool licks, escapes. "" The film owes much of its success to director of photography Jean De Segonzac, whose alert camera takes in such eccentric details as a copy of The New Sweden on the coffee table of a model mobile home and a kitten lapping water from a miniature kidney-shaped pool. ”.

His breakthrough as a cameraman took place in 1992 with the indie film Laws of Gravity by Nick Gomez . Kenneth Turan of the LA Times called his imagery a " gifted Cinéma Verité camera work" . Boston Globe's Jay Carr praised the camerawork as "jumpy, in-your-face." His Laws of Gravity camera won second place in the 1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards . De Segonzac sacrificed his $ 5,000 salary to help complete the film. The film had a total budget of $ 38,000. A Washington Post reviewer said of de Segonzac "fills the screen with beautifully framed scenes that need little verbal underpinning."

De Segonzac was part of the 1994 film team for the Peabody Award- winning documentary Road Scholar. He follows the Romanian-born poet and novelist Andrei Codrescu, known as a commentator on National Public Radio, across the United States as he tries to define what it means to be an American through the eyes of a naturalized person . Jean de Segonzac directed the camera and, together with Robert Weisberg, also directed.

Since 1996, de Segonzac's main focus has been directing police and crime series, including Homicide , Oz - Hell Behind Bars , Brooklyn South , Law & Order , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent - Crime in the sights . He also took the camera on several episodes of Michael Moore's Emmy-winning documentary series TV Nation and has directed and cameraman for a number of television films. Together with Barry Levinson, de Segonzac deserves credit for creating the "loose, free-flowing visual style" of Homicide, which builds on the characteristic documentary-like manner of Hill Street Blues . The television critic Matt Zoller Seitz named this series pilot in Salon.com one of the ten best pilots for television series of all time.

The actress Adrienne Shelly , with whom Jean de Segonzac shot an episode of Law & Order ( "High & Low") in 2000 , was murdered in November 2006. In February 2007, de Segonzac directed the Law & Order episode "Melting Pot," which featured a barely veiled version of the Shelly murder case.

Jean de Segonzac's well-known camera style was also responsible for the positive film reviews of John McNaughton's indie crime drama Normal Life , in which Luke Perry and Ashley Judd played the lead roles.

De Segonzac's feature film debut as a director was the 2001 science fiction horror sequel Mimic 2 . His second feature film was also a science fiction film, the low-budget film Lost City Raiders from 2008, which was produced by the Munich-based film production company Tandem Communications on behalf of Pro7 and the US broadcaster SyFy .

De Segonzac led both the first episode in 1999 and the 300th episode in 2012 on the crime series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit .

Web links

Jean de Segonzac in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

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5. ^ Robert Blau, "Fourth of July": One Chicagoan's Struggle to Film a Vietnam Tragedy, " Chicago Tribune , p. 321, November 10, 1985, Archive-Link
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28. ↑ Dana Harris: DP catches helming bug for 'Mimic 2'. In: Variety . March 22, 2000, accessed August 24, 2017 . 
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30. ↑ Jacqueline Cutler, “'SVU' Nabs Its 300th Episode,” in Batavia Daily News, October 23, 2012