Jean Ruggirello
Jean-Claude RUGGIRELLO (1959, Tunisia) lives and works in Paris. He lived in Germany for three years and studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. His first video installation was shown in Galerie Eric Fabre in Paris in 1987. In 1998, he had a one-man show at the MUHKA in Antwerp where all his video works, films and video installations were exhibited. Since 2000 he has been working with Galerie Claudine Papillon in Paris, which is preparing a book about Ruggirello’s works (drawings, installations and films).
Filmography
(selection, all short) Show the White Hole (1993), Angström (1994), Road Movie (1994), mouvement (1994), In out (1996), Lastream (1996), Peacock (2001), Sunset, Bruits de Fond (2006), (2008), Bruits de fond (2010), Fade (2015), Lingua morta (2023), A smorfia (2026)
Jean Ruggirello at IFFR
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La Smorfia
Jean Ruggirello | 5' | France | World premiere
La Smorfia is a carousel of accidents that plays with our idea of perception and surprise. -
Lingua morta
Jean Ruggirello | 10' | France | World premiere
Ruggirello’s absurdist cross between cinema and sculpture is a slapstick comedy made with strange objects. -
Bruits de fond
Jean Ruggirello | 19' | France | World premiere
In this very unsettling performance, a man manages to destroy his interior, despite being limited in his movement.