Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

54 • BARJOL, JEAN-MICHEL
“Les Pionniers,” “Simon Bolivar,” “La Ruée
vers l’Or,” “La Fin du Peuple indien,” “America
America”)
1994 Il était une Fois . . . les Découvreurs / UK: Once
upon a Time . . . The Discoverers (animation;
also creator, screenwriter; 26 26'; episodes
“Nos Ancêtres les Chinois,” “Archimède et les
Grecs,” “Héron d’Alexandrie,” “Les Mesures
du Temps,” “Henri le Navigateur (et la cartographie),”
“Gutenberg (et l’Ecriture),” “Léonard
de Vinci,” “Les Médecins,” “Galilée,” “Newton,”
“Buffon (La Découverte du Passé),”
“Lavoisier et la Chimie,” “Stephenson (à toute
Vapeur),” “Faraday et l’Electricité,” “Darwin
et l’Evolution,” “Mendel et les petits Pois,”
“Pasteur et les Micro-Organismes,” “Thomas
Edison et la Science appliquée,” “Marconi
et les Ondes,” “Ford et l’Aventure automobile,”
“L’Aviation,” “Marie Curie,” “Einstein,”
“Lorenz, le Père l’Oie,” “Armstrong, la Lune
et l’Espace,” “Demain”)
1996 Il était une Fois . . . les Explorateurs (animation;
also creator, screenwriter; 26 26'; episodes
“Les Premiers Navigateurs,” “Alexandre le
Grand,” “Eric le Rouge et la Découverte de
l’Amérique,” “Gengis Khan,” “Ibn Battûta (Sur
les traces de Marco Polo),” “Les Grandes
Jonques,” “Vasco de Gama,” “Les Taxis et la
première Poste,” “Les Pinzon (ou la Face
cachée de Chistophe Colomb),” “Amerigo
Vespucci et le Nouveau Monde,” “Magellan
et Elcano—Le premier Tour du Monde,”
“Cabeza de vaca,” “Béring,” “Bougainville
et le Pacifi que,” “Bruce et les Sources du
Nil,” “La Condamine,” “James Cook,” “Humboldt,”
“Lewis et Clark,” “Stuart & Burke et
l’Australie,” “Stanley & Livingstone,” “Roald
Amundsen et le Pôle Sud,” “Alexandra
David-Neel et le Tibet,” “Piccard: Des Sommets
aux Abysses,” “Vers les Cimes,” “Vers
les Etoiles”)
BARJOL, JEAN-MICHEL (May 19, 1938, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
He was an orphan at a very young age and had a
eventful and disturbed childhood. After spending
years in boarding schools, he graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in natural sciences. At the end of his
twenty-seven months of military service, he opted
for cinema and began fi lming his own story, day after
day, without script. He founded a theatrical group,
Le Théâtre du Temps Présent, and shot a four-hour
western with the members of the troupe (Blues pour
un Cow Boy qui a mal au Ventre). In 1981, he co-created,
with three friends of his, a fi lm production company,
B.Q.H.L. Productions. He also cut a few trailers and
directed commercials.
Filmography
1964 Blues pour un Cow Boy (16-mm medium-length;
also screenwriter, dialogist, cinematographer)
Nadia (short; also screenwriter)
1965 La Tour sans Venin (shot on 16-mm; also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer, cinematographer)
Au Temps des Chataîgnes (documentary; short;
also screenwriter)
1966 Les Gitans (16-mm medium-length documentary;
also screenwriter)
Des Terrils et des Turcs (documentary; short;
also screenwriter)
Les Etrangers (documentary; short; also screenwriter)
1967 Santo Pietro (documentary; short; also screenwriter)
1968 Hivertume (short; also screenwriter)
1969 La Peau dure (16-mm documentary; also
screenwriter, producer)
Marie-Joseph et l’Empereur (16-mm mediumlength;
also screenwriter, dialogist)
1970 Le Cochon (medium-length; documentary; codirector
with Jean Eustache; also screenwriter)
1972 What a Flash! (also screenwriter, producer)
Fos sur Mer (16-mm medium-length documentary;
also screenwriter)
1976 Pierre Jakez-Heliaz (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Histoire de vivre (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Une Commune pas comme les Autres (documentary;
short; also screenwriter)
1977 Objectif: Prix d’Amérique (documentary; short;
also screenwriter)
Hockey sur Glace (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Bellino II Super Star (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Les Orfèvres (16-mm documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Bonjour les Tétraplégiques (16-mm documentary;
short; also screenwriter)