jacques sirot

Jacques Sirot is an independent French film-maker whose creations over the past thirty years range from art works including graphic, photographic and multimedia installation pieces as founding member of CAIRN artists’ cooperative in Paris, to films on live performance and creative technologies events, and documentaries commissioned by local bodies and industrial organisations. Jacques has taught video and multimedia in a variety of professional development and art school contexts. His New Zealand productions include Tane’s Revenge, a film on forest destruction by opossums which premiered on NZTV in 1992 with an ecological “possum rap” music video (co-production with The Pauas), and a documentary on Tapu Te Ranga Marae and its founder, Bruce Stewart (Island Bay, Wellington). Recent Aotearoa inspired work includes audiovisual meditations on Raranga tangata, screened as part of Sally Jane Norman and Sylvia Nagl’s joint conference presentations at Duke University, US (2007) and the Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin (2008). Video works can be viewed at http://www.dailymotion.com/user/keoracobus and http://idisk.mac.com/mirlitant-Public. Jacques’ blog as an alien discoverer of Newcastle upon Tyne is at http://vendredi.blog.lemonde.fr/