Jean-Pierre Lajournade

Birthday: 1937-04-19
Deathday: 1976-11-08
Birthplace: Pau, France
Gender: Male

After studying at IDHEC from 1959 to 1961, he worked for television from 1962 to 1968. He was co-producer and director of the program Lire: he signed fifteen documentaries and four TV movies. In 1967 he filmed his first short film, Assommons les pauvres, with stolen film.

He left the ORTF after the strike movement of May 1968. He then devoted himself to the realization of his experimental feature film (Le Joueur de quilles), produced by Jean-Edern Hallier, and three short films produced by Pierre Braunberger.

He collaborated in the journal Cinéthique from 1975.

Credits

Year Title
1970-03-20 La Fin des Pyrénées
1969-02-06 Cinéma-Cinéma
1969-01-01 Le Droit d'asile
1969-01-01 Libre de ne pas l'être
1969-01-01 Assomons les pauvres
1968-11-09 Le joueur de quilles
1968-08-06 Werther
1967-10-15 Histoire
1967-09-24 Bruno
1967-03-17 Jean Cayrol
1967-01-01 Rapide 345
1966-12-16 Witold Gombrowicz
1966-09-30 Carnets d'un retour au pays natal
1966-06-23 Archiloque
1966-06-23 Un gardien des lettres
1966-05-13 Artaud
1966-02-18 Céline parmi nous
1966-01-21 Samuel Beckett
1965-12-07 Le Prix Femina
1965-11-23 Olivier Larronde
1965-03-18 Seize millions de jeunes: Mods