Open Class: Jean-Gabriel Périot

<p><em>Open Class</em> is a series of solos initiated by Marie-Hélène Gutberlet who teaches film at HfG with the aim of providing space and time to engage with filmmaking practitioners, artists, and thinkers. Thinking along their words, images and sounds not only makes film—and what draws us to it—more tangible, but also reveals the diversity of approaches to critical filmmaking, while pointing to the gap between what can be expressed and what can never be fully spelled out. Jean-Gabriel Périot was our first guest. His film <em>Se souvenir d’une ville</em> was screened in his presence 9 July 2025 at the DFF cinema in Frankfurt. The following day at HfG Offenbach was dedicated to shorts and excerpts of two of his feature length films, and exchange. The conversation with Jean-Gabriel Périot, recorded on 10 July 2025 provides the basis for the present text.</p>