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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Jean-Christophe Averty Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jean-Christophe Averty |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Date of Birth | 1928-08-06 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 88 |
| Deathday | 2017-03-04 |
Jean-Christophe Averty Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Au service de Jean-Christophe Averty mode Shakespeare | Self | 2016-07-03 | … |
| Au service de Jean-Christophe Averty mode Jarry | Self | 2016-07-03 | … |
| Les trésors cachés des variétés | Self | 2017-02-03 | … |
| Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête | Le cinéaste | 1995-01-01 | … |
| Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory | Self | 2017-04-20 | A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador DalÃ, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond Roussel… |
Jean-Christophe Averty Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Director | 1969-12-25 | A television adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream…. |
| Émilie jolie | Director | 1980-12-24 | … |
| Ubu Roi | Director | 1965-09-20 | Based on Alfredy Jarrry’s 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the cur… |
| Melody | Director | 1971-12-22 | Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit of div… |
| Alice au pays des merveilles | Director | 1970-12-22 | Abstract made for French TV version of Alice in Wonderland…. |
| Musidora | Director | 1973-12-29 | Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature role… |
| Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali | Director | 1979-12-29 | A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles…. |
| The Carpathian Castle | Director | 1976-12-19 | In 1898, strange things happen in a castle not far from the small village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. Twenty years earlier, … |
| The Melbourne Rendezvous | Assistant Director | 1957-01-21 | Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the time of its release, there was much controversy i… |
| Ray Charles – Live in France 1961 | Director | 2011-10-20 | Lost for 50 years, these newly discovered concerts were filmed at the 1961 Antibes Jazz Festival in France and show Ray Charles in his prime period wi… |
| Les Verts Pâturages | Director | 1964-12-31 | A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast…. |
| Un beau ténébreux | Director | 1971-08-10 | … |
| Aretha Franklin – Live in Paris | Director | 1977-11-28 | … |
| Ubu cocu ou l’archéoptéryx | Director | 1981-09-06 | The second sequel to “Ubu roi” (1965)…. |
| Ubu enchaîné | Director | 1971-01-01 | Father Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a slave to acquire real power. This is the first sequel t… |
| Ça c’est Claude François | Director | 1967-05-27 | … |
| Idea | Director | 1968-12-11 | The Bee Gees preform in this special created for German TV. Also featured are Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger, and the Trinity, and Lili Lindfors…. |
| Alfred Jarry – 1873-1907 | Director | 1995-06-01 | … |
Jean-Christophe Averty Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Beatles: Live in Paris | Producer | 1965-10-31 | The Beatles live at the Palais des Sports, Paris, June 20th 1965…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Musidora | Writer | 1973-12-29 | Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature role… |
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