Jean-Noël Gobron

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Jean-Noël Gobron

Born January 19, 1954 · Eeklo, Flanders, Belgium (age 72)

Jean-Noël Gobron was born in Belgium on 19th January 1954 as the son of the poet Marie-Jo Gobron (1916-2008) and the painter Roger Gobron (1899-1985). At the age of thirteen he realized his first super 8 film experiments. Four years later he left school to work in an industrial photographic studio and as a projectionist in a movie theatre. After a year he resumed school in order to study photograp…

Known For

Noise of Love and WarNoise of Love and War · 1997
Noise of Love and War
8.01997
MovieDrama
A couple takes charge of mounting the film of love and war of a filmmaker friend faded away.
De droomproducentenDe droomproducenten · 1984
De droomproducenten
10.01984
MovieDocumentary
Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands.
Satori StressSatori Stress · 1984
Satori Stress
9.01984
MovieDocumentary
Leaving Europe to look for Akiko, Jean-Noël discovers her city, the exotic Tokyo. A documentary on everyday life in Tokyo, its KABUKI theater, its nostalgic TAKENOKOZOKU dances, its thousands of suit-and-tie executives, its geishas, its Western style marriages, its tranquil green areas, its pulsating nightlife...
As If It Were YesterdayAs If It Were Yesterday · 1980
As If It Were Yesterday
7.01980
MovieDocumentary
Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid over 4,000 Jewish children, rescuing them from deportation and extermination, , often risking their own lives. Directed by Myriam Abramowicz and Esther Hoffenberg, children of parents who spent the war in hiding, the film inspired the creation of The Hidden Child, a world-wide network of hidden children, which, for three decades, has organized reunions of hidden children with the families who hid them in Belgium during WWII.
Daughters of Darkness, revised and correctedDaughters of Darkness, revised and corrected · 1987
Daughters of Darkness, revised and corrected
1.01987
MovieHorrorDrama
The daughters of Pandora on a special mission ...
OrwoldOrwold
Orwold
MovieFantasyDrama
The story of a man who confuses fiction and reality ... "Orwold" is the tragic history of an insignificant employee; an erratic figure who can't cope with the perspectiveless of his existence and therefore escapes in an imaginary world which eventually shall devour him.
Single tree streetSingle tree street · 1983
Single tree street
1983
Movie
Series of comic situations set up by improvisations with Luc De Smet around a character who walks along a wall.
Portrait de mon père aquarellistePortrait de mon père aquarelliste
Portrait de mon père aquarelliste
MovieDocumentary
The father through the eye of the son, the painter through the eye of the filmmaker. Started at random 10 years ago, the picture rewrites in a very subjective way the life of Roger Gobron - born in 1899 in Brussels - who, through his pictorial research, succeeded in giving watercolors a new dimension. "In Belgium, artists are evaluated according to the price of their paintings", A tribute to this simple and generous man who searched and painted watercolors his whole life.

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