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

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.
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.
Le journal de Joseph M.Le journal de Joseph M. · 2000
Le journal de Joseph M.
★ 8.02000
MovieDocumentary
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 ...
Couple, regards, positionsCouple, regards, positions · 1983
Couple, regards, positions
★ 10.01983
MovieDrama
A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another.
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.

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