People
Michel Nedjar
Biography:
Master of Art Brut, Michel Nedjar was born in 1947 in the Val d'Oise to a Jewish family marked by war and the holocaust. His father, born in Algiers, settled in Paris in 1921 as a tailor. At home, he tinkered on a sewing machine doll clothes for his sisters. During the Second World War, a large part of his family fell victim to Nazi oppression.
In 1960, he became aware of the magnitude of the Holocaust. At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in a vocational school to become a tailor and sells jeans with his flea grandfather from Saint-Ouen and accompanies his grandmother to the scrap fair; she makes him share his love for Shmattès (the worn cloth) that she picks up and stacks. In the spring... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Dolls of Darkness: The Art of Michel Nedjar as Self | 2016-06-06 |
Madrid, Quelques Images | 1991-04-08 |
Le chant de l'âme | 1989-01-01 |
Fragments | 1987-01-28 |
Robillard André, Nedjar Michel | 1986-04-06 |
Chutes de Michel Nedjar as Himself | 1984-12-31 |
Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage | 1984-01-01 |
Portraits / Mirrors | 1984-01-01 |
Bouquet of Eyes | 1983-12-31 |
Souvenirs/Rouen as Himself | 1983-06-08 |
4 à 4 Métro-Barbès-Rochechou-Art | 1983-03-16 |
Sur Graal de T.H. | 1981-02-17 |
Chutes de Pascal as Himself | 1981-01-01 |
Sara | 1981-01-01 |
Graal | 1980-07-25 |
Lacrima Christi | 1980-04-19 |
Hors-jeu | 1979-01-01 |
Cristaux | 1978-12-22 |
Cinématon as N°27 | 1978-12-20 |
Cinématon n°27 : Michel Nedjar | 1978-10-19 |
Cinématon III as N°27 | 1978-10-18 |
Michel Nedjar as Self | 1978-01-01 |
J'aime as Himself | 1978-01-01 |
Esmeralda | 1977-12-31 |
Cristo | 1977-08-30 |
Salomé | 1976-01-01 |
Pause | 1970-07-01 |
Michel Over There | 1970-04-01 |