Jean-Baptiste DECAVÈLE

(1961- )
Nationality: French

Jean-Baptiste Decavèle is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and photographer who has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe, North America, and Asia. He was a recipient of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs award in 1999 and 2001 for Inukshuk with Hervé Le Tellier, and then for Nostalgie, la demeurance et l'icône with South African poet Tatamkhulu Afrika, Boris Belay, and Nicolas Gerber. In 2011, he received support from "L'Art dans la ville" for Traverser Paris with Hervé Le Tellier.

Over the past 15 years, he has primarily collaborated with architect Yona Friedman. Together, they developed a body of over 280 films and thousands of photographs that form one possible portrait of Yona Friedman while bearing witness to the vital and ever-necessary thought of the exceptional man he was.

Jean-Baptiste Decavèle consistently directs and produces his films, taking friendship, writing, and painting as his starting points. ...l'admirable profondeur; du jour à la folie, a work composed in collaboration with painter Patrick Pleutin, is one such example of his approach.

3 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

HALMAN'S WALK
2002 / color / sound / single screen / 48' 00 / 134 €
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L'ATTIRANCE
2001 / DVD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 31' 00 / 111 €
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REPLIS
1999 / DVD / color / sound / single screen / 26' 00 / 106 €
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