Frédéric Pardo is a French painter and photographer born in 1944 and died on December 19 , 2005. In the 1960s, he was part of, with Phillpe Garrel, Tina Aumontand, Daniel Pommereulle the Zkianzibar Group. The Group was a radical collective of artists and film makers. He was also known for his dandyism and for having been one of the first in Paris to wear long hair.
The Zanzibar group comprised young radical French filmmakers, some of whom had dropped out of university to make films. The group's constituent members were dandies, and some were models. The group's work was financed by Sylvina Boissonnas. Productions were sparse: directors shot without scripts and actors were typically not paid for their work. The group shot on expensive 35 mm film.
In 1969, several members of the group embarked on a trip to Africa to shoot Serge Bard's film Au-delà. However, Bard abandoned the project before reaching their namesake destination.
The Zanzibar group dissolved when Boissonnas stopped financing their films and instead became more active in the French feminist movement. Boissonnas was unable to sell the rights to the group's films to distributors, and so the group's work remained relatively unknown until a 2000 screening at the cinematheque.
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