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The young Vigo was subsequently sent to boarding school under an assumed name, Jean Sales, to conceal his identity.
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Vigo was born to Emily Clero and the prominent Catalan militant anarchist Eugeni Bonaventura de Vigo i Sallés (who adopted the name Miguel Almereyda—an anagram of Jean Vigo, (born April 26, 1905, Paris, France—died Oct. 5, 1934, Paris), French film director whose blending of lyricism with realism and Surrealism, the whole underlined with a cynical, anarchic approach to life, distinguished him as an original talent.Although he completed only three feature films and one short, Taris (1931), before his early death, his films produced great public reaction.
Art, a visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination. Child of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also hardly ever really retrieved from his father’s mystical death in prison when he was 12.
Vigo was married and had a daughter, Luce Vigo (a film critic) in 1931.
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Jean Vigo was bornon April 26, 1905 in Paris, France, France, is Writer, Director, Editor. Zero for Conduct was banned by the French government until after the war, and L'Atalante was mutilated by its distributor.
History at your fingertips In the late 1980s a 1934 copy of L'Atalante was found in the British National Film and Television Archive, and became a key element in the restoration of the film to its original version.
By this point, Vigo was too ill to strenuously fight the matter. The simple story of a newly married couple splitting and reuniting is notable for the way it effortlessly merges rough, naturalistic filmmaking with shimmering, dreamlike sequences and effects. Jean Vigo had poor health since he was a kid.
Writing on Vigo's career in The New York Times, film critic Andrew Johnston stated: "The ranks of the great film directors are short on Keatses and Shelleys, young artists cut off in their prime, leaving behind a handful of great works that suggest what might have been.
None of his four films were financial successes; at one point, with his and his wife's health suffering, Vigo was forced to sell his camera. But one who qualifies is Jean Vigo, the French director who died of tuberculosis at age 29 in 1934.” 2011 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award posthumously honored Jean Vigo for Zero for Conduct and was presented to his daughter Luce Vigo. Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Vigo spent an unhappy and sickly childhood being shuffled about between relatives and boarding schools.
Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Both films have outlived their detractors; L'Atalante was chosen as the 10th-greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's 1962 poll, and as the 6th-best in its 1992 poll. Forgotten by his mom, he exceeded from boarding college to boarding college. Jean Vigo was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s; he was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
L'Atalante was Vigo's only full-length feature.
Thomson described the result as "not so much a masterpiece as a definition of cinema, and thus a film that stands resolutely apart from the great body of films."
The term art encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation.