F.J. Ossang

Short Biography

F.J. Ossang was born on August 7, 1956 as Jacques Plougeaut. He is a director and actor, known for Dharma Guns (La succession Starkov) (2010), Doctor Chance (1997) and Silence (2007).Trivia (1) Retrospective at the 5th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema.Frédéric-Jacques Ossang, known as FJ Ossang , born on August 7, 1956 , is a French poet , writer , singer and director .BiographyAfter a childhood in the Cantal , he joined Toulouse in the mid -1970s. He began his artistic activity in 1975, first with the writing of very personal poetic texts and the edition of a literary magazine, Cée (1977 - 1979), co-published by Christian Bourgois. He also creates the Céeditions, which publish important texts by Stanislas Rodanski , Claude Pélieu and Robert Cordier . In parallel to this writing activity, he created the punk group DDP ("Of Pure Destruction").New departure for Paris around 1980 , where he studied film at IDHEC . He joined the group MKB-Fraction provisoire (Messageros Killers Boys) with Jack Belsen on guitar, Mr. Nasti on drums and Gina Lola Benzina on keyboards. Olivier Pronto Rushtonski added to the bass in 1986 .His years of study at IDHEC, from 1982 to 1984 , allowed him to make three films: a film-tract 3 , La Dernier énigme (1982), short film of 13 min in black and white, with literary inspirations , Multiple political and cinematographic features marked by citation effects - among others: situationists, William S. Burroughs, Machiavelli, Lenin; Zona inquinata or La Vie is a cowboy story (1983), a short film of 21 min in black and white, the story of love, vengeance, death and resurrection of Captain Mort, With the participation of the poet Robert Cordier in the role of Texan and Lionel Tua who plays there his first role in the films of FJ Ossang; His graduating film, L'Affaire des Divisions Morituri (1984), a lengthy 81-minute film in black and white and color, with Lionel Tua in the role of journalist Tanzani, Philippe Sfez in "bookmaker of Death" , The members of the punk-rock group Lucrate Milk in urban gladiators and FJ Ossang himself in the role of Ettore, the poet-leader of the gladiators.LiteratureAs a writer, we can situate it in a near evolution in certain aspects of the Beat literature initiated by William S. Burroughs and in France Claude Pélieu . His references include, besides the two above-named ones, French authors like Louis-Ferdinand Céline or Antonin Artaud , Jacques Vaché , Lautréamont , Rimbaud .The first steps as a writer were made in the mid -1970s in the form of several books published among others by the Céeditions.The first great novel, Generation Nothing , published only in the 1990s (the editors of the time were frightened by this text on the sidelines) presents itself as an impressive series of themes addressed at high speed, themes that will be found in filigree In all the work of FJ Ossang, both literary and cinematographic; The poetic texts neighbor it with passages of black novel (in the manner of La Victoire in the shadow of the wings , by Stanislas Rodanski, a sort of poetic text literally disguised as a curious mixture of spy novel and romance novel of station).The following novels (for example: Au Bord de l'Aurore ) are more like travel logs with Celinian accents of Journey to the End of the Night , inspired by the author's various journeys: in Madrid, Chile, New Zealand. He has also published numerous texts of demanding contemporary poetry and has worked on a book on William S. Burroughs . His collection Landscape and Silence was selected at the Salon du Livre Jeunesse in Montreuil in 2000, in the Teenage Readings . It remains an essential text to understand FJ Ossang; It has also sold to a number of copies, which is rare for a collection of contemporary poetry.In addition, his short novel Le Ciel exteint (2000) is the original text from which the script for his film Ciel Eteint! - Sky's Black Out (presented in Cannes - Directors' Fortnight 2008).MusicHe also sings, in the movement of punk and industrial music (with MKB). He is part of the French punk movement by releasing an album Split with Lucrate Milk , but quickly the musical style of MKB, self-titled Noise 'N'Roll, moves further away from punk to get closer to industrial music, Close to the British flagship of the genre: Cabaret Voltaire (group) or Throbbing Gristle . Note that for the short film Silencio of 2007, the music is signed by Throbbing Gristle.The other members of MKB are currently: Jack Belsen, Little Drake, drummer Paul Dufayet de la Tour accompanies them at times, as well as Elvire, credited for the "machines" in the album "live" of 1996.In 2007, FJ Ossang and Mr. Nasti released an album under the name of Baader Meinhof Wagen.