Discipline: Film/Video

Jean-Christian Bourcart

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
Jean-Christian Bourcart is an award winning filmmaker. Throughout his artistic career, Bourcart collected unsold wedding pictures, photographed in brothels and S&M cubs, photographed New Yorkers stuck in traffic jams, projected pictures of Iraqi victims on American houses, churches and supermarkets, wrote and published his autobiography and documented life in Camden, NJ, one of the poorest and most dangerous city in the U.S. He also directed two fiction feature movies, the first one during the war in Bosnia, the second, a sci-fi thriller in New York art world, starring the award-winning Elodie Bouchez. He is also an active video filmmaker. Six books about his work have been published.