Jean-Christophe Averty
Directing

Jean-Christophe Averty

Born 6 August 1928 · Paris, France · Died 4 March 2017

Jean-Christophe Averty (6 August 1928 – 4 March 2017[1]) was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique. Many of his television productions from the 1960s were early examples of French video art. His studies were used in the following decades by the research groups of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA). Averty was born in Paris. A graduate of the IDHEC film school, he started in television in 1952 at the then French Television Office. He directed over five hundred programs for television and radio, across all disciplines: fiction, documentary, drama, variety, and jazz. His many awards include an Emmy award in the United States.

Known for

Ray Charles - Live in France 1961
Ubu Roi
Émilie Jolie
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Alice au pays des merveilles
Melody
Serge Gainsbourg ‎– D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Idea
The Breasts of Tirésias
Musidora
The Carpathian Castle
Ray Charles - Live in France 1961
Serge Gainsbourg ‎– D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
The Breasts of Tirésias
Ubu cocu ou l'archéoptéryx
Émilie Jolie
Aretha Franklin - Live in Paris
The Carpathian Castle
Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel
Musidora
Ubu enchaîné
Melody
Alice au pays des merveilles
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
Idea
Ça c'est Claude François
Ubu Roi
The Beatles: Live in Paris
Les verts pâturages
Ella Fitzgerald à l'Olympia
Christmas Blues
Jean-Christophe Averty · Midrow