Jean-Christophe Averty

Jean-Christophe Averty
Averty in 2015
Born(1928-08-06)6 August 1928
Paris, France
Died4 March 2017(2017-03-04) (aged 88)
Alma materIDHEC film school
OccupationTV/Radio director

Jean-Christophe Averty (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kʁistɔf avɛʁti]; 6 August 1928 – 4 March 2017) was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique.

Many of his television productions from the 1960s were early examples of French video art. His studies were used in the following decades by the research groups of France's Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA).