Gaël Badaud
At the age of 32, Gaël Badaud inaugurated a period of intense creativity (drawing, poetry, vocal music, film), after experiencing a constant wandering and struggle for survival, which marked him for his entire existence. Retired from his parents (gypsy mother and Breton father) by the Public Assistance when he was 4 years old, he was placed on a farm with a foster family. But this tormented being feels different in this environment foreign to his nature. At the age of 20, he left Loire-Atlantique and moved to Paris. Ten years later, in 1976, he meets Teo Hernandez, with whom a fruitful exchange takes place. He becomes the interpreter of the filmmaker's films, which, teaching him to read and write, allows him to express his sensitivity. In return, he shares with him his experience of "life in a vacuum". From their collaboration are born Liberté provisoire (1977), Gaël (1978) and Tables d'hiver (1978-1979) - filmed by Téo - who give us the keys of their relationship, and the achievements of Gaël, filmed, according to his mentor, "According to his personal gaze, without worry of any school or any conceptualization, cinema abrupt in the sense that it irrupted without rhetoric in the field of the filmic. Cinema away from the recipes and which proposes a new look, that of the innocence ".
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.147 |
Birthday | 1945-03-25 |
Place of Birth | France |
Also Known As | Gabriel Badaud, |
1978
Cinématon
4.3/6
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 y...
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Cinématon
1977
Cristo
2.5/2
All of history, that of Christ or any other, permeates the world, leaves its mark, modifying and informing history, and all that the human reproduces...
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Cristo
1981
Gong
0/0
A gong will never abolish chance? If chance is travesty of desire, and desire movement without measure, cinema is vibration of this desire in fugue.
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Gong
1978
Corps aboli
6/2
The purpose of the film is to go beyond the notion of the body as a system of functions, symptoms and reflexes that try to delimit the whole body. The...
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Corps aboli
1979
Tables d'hiver
6/1
Winter 1978-1979: In his signature style, Hernández films hearty meals, long afternoons and candlelit dalliances inside his residence on rue des Entre...
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Tables d'hiver
1978
Gaël
0/0
An approach to Gaël Badaud and his activity as a painter: the birth of his paintings and the tight bonds between his work and his personal experience.
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Gaël
1977
Liberté provisoire
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Liberté provisoire takes from everyday life, transforming the ordinary into a sensory delight. Walks in the Belleville district, Ménilmontant, leading...
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Liberté provisoire
1978
Gestuel
0/0
This film is the most "plastic", the most "actionist" of Nedjar: it is his In contextus or his Double Labyrinth. Except that here - a single actor fil...
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Gestuel
1978
Cristaux
10/1
The tetralogy pieces are dominated by the concept and presence of death, foreclosure, fetal vertigo. As such, CRISTAUX is a real descent into an inner...
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Cristaux
1980
Graal
3/2
The film Graal goes (as well as all the films which precede it) toward an open and avowed paganism, in which pagan force and magic imbue all the subje...
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Graal
1980
Lacrima Christi
5/2
Lacrima Christi is the longest of the over 150 films made by the Mexican filmmaker resident in Paris, Teo Hernández. Part three of a tetralogy devoted...
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Lacrima Christi
1983
4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art
6/1
In the early '80s, this collective of artists invented a style of cinema made in 4 hands, where each of the protagonists is also a filmmaker.
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4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art
1977
Luna India
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Luna India
1977
Esmeralda
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With Esmeralda, Hernandez shifts to the romantic mythology, but this descriptive aspect is secondary in the filmmaker's work, whose purpose is the con...
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Esmeralda
1984
Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage
0/0
Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, sta...
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Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage
1987
Fragments
0/0
Eyes and ears travel discontinuously through everyday life and the sub-worlds of the city and the body. A fragmented and subjective day-to-day chronic...
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Fragments
1983
Bouquet of Eyes
0/0
Through the use of portraits, shadow play and reflections, this series of exercises with and from body language compose a "four-handed" look against t...
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Bouquet of Eyes
2014
Mes films commencent au moment où les autres se terminent (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez I)
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Mes films commencent au moment où les autres se terminent (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez I)
1981
Sur Graal de T.H.
4.8/5
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Sur Graal de T.H.
1977
Désir
0/0
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Désir
1978
Angle
1/1
"ANGLE, with its brief black and white shots, almost always plunging and oblique, of naked bodies or parts of bodies, is a film of rupture. Punctuatio...
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Angle
1977
Le gant de l'autre
1/1
Exploration of bodies. Point, counterpoint. A black glove goes in search of a red glove.
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Le gant de l'autre
1986
Rumeurs Saint-Maur
0/0
"Sounds of images" come to me from the windows overlooking rue Saint-Maur (the former pilgrims' path to Saint-Denis) and suddenly make me want to take...
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Rumeurs Saint-Maur
1987
Effeuiller l'acanthe
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Effeuiller l'acanthe
1984
Chutes de Gaël
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Chutes de Gaël
2004
Téo
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Téo
1981
Chutes de La Vie brève de la flamme
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Outtakes from the movie.
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Chutes de La Vie brève de la flamme
1978
Cinématon II
0/0
Reel 2 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon II
1978
Cinématon n°17 : Gaël Badaud
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Cinématon n°17 : Gaël Badaud
1982
La vie brève de la flamme
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One of my last films to be made indoors was La vie brève de la flamme. I used light in a very expressionist manner — still with the technique of a ver...
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La vie brève de la flamme
1989
Gaël lit Pessoa
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Experimental short by Teo Hernández.
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Gaël lit Pessoa
1989
Kader, Gaël
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Experimental short by Teo Hernández.
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Kader, Gaël
1988
Réveillon
0/0
Experimental short by Teo Hernández.
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