Jean-Pierre Gorin Read Bio Collapse
Jean-Pierre Gorin (b. 1943) is a French filmmaker and professor best known for his work with Jean-Luc Godard during Godard’s “radical” period. Gorin, a student of Althusser, Foucault, and Lacan, was a leftist well before meeting Godard in 1966, and had a crucial influence on his thought. Gorin and Godard co-founded the Dziga Vertov Group and together produced an extraordinary series of overtly political films. Gorin left France in the mid-1970s to accept a teaching position at the University of California, San Diego and remained on the Visual Arts faculty thereafter. He continued to make films, most notably Poto and Cabengo (1978), Routine Pleasures (1986) and My Crasy Life (1991).
Landscape Theory Beyond Japan: Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group
November/December 2016
