Jacques Kébadian

Born in 1940 in Paris. Studies at IDHEC. Assistant director on three films by Robert Bresson. First film: Trotsky (1967). In 1968, he founded with Michel Andrieu and Renan Pollès the activist collective ARC, which produced Le Droit à la parole, Le Joli Mois de mai, CA13, Comité d’action du thirteenth.
The young people in Albertine (1972), the undocumented immigrants from D’une Brousse à l’autre (1997), the Zapatista Indians of La Fragile Armada (2003), the working class, the exiles: he stands alongside all the oppressed, however desperate and unequal the struggle.
Loyalty to Armenian origins, long-term collaborations with other creators (Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, Pierre Guyotat, François-Marie Anthonioz, Patrick Bouchain, etc.), consistency of work with other filmmakers (Franssou Prenant, Serge Avedikian, Joani Hocquenghem …), diligence in building a gallery of portraits of exemplary women (Germaine Tillion, Geneviève de Gaulle, Chouchan Kebadian and her sisters, the Apsara dancers of Cambodia…).

(Source: Éditions Yellow Now)