Jacky Raynal is French directress, actress and film editor. She's born in 1940 near Montpellier. The film maker has a diploma in Linguistics. In the early 60's, already a photographer, young Jacky Raynal starts working in the field of cinema. She's assistent film editor for the documentarys of G. Patriss and F. Vienne. After that, she edits the first films of E. Rohmer. In 1965 J. Raynal gets the license of senior film editor for feature films in CNC (National Cinema Center). Now she's working with the film directors of the New Wave. She edits all of the skecthes of Six in Paris, directed by Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Jacky Raynal continues to work in editing till the end of 70's. In 1968, with S. Boissonas and O. Mosset, she's the founder of the Zanzibar group. She works with Philippe Garrel, Serge Bard, Daniel Pommereulle, Alain Jouffroy and Patrick Deval. J. Raynal shoots her first feature film Two Times in Barcelona. In 1972, the movie wins the Grand Prix in the Festival of Hyères/Toulon. At that time she's already living in New York. There, between 1975 and 1992, she's responsible for the programs of Carnegie Hall Cinema and Bleeker Street Cinema. She shows there numerous independent international films. Her job in New York is appreciated by F. Truffaut (he compares it with the French Cinematheque) and awarded twice by the Village Voice in 1981 and 1991. J. Raynal directs New York Story (Grand Prix in Melbourne) and Hotel New York. In the same time, she plays in several movies, organises numerous international cinema festivals, like Colombian Film Festival, Israel Film Festival or Avignon Film Festival. From 1973 to 1986, with Sid Geffen, they're publishing the independent international cinema review 1000 Eyes Magazine. From 2000, Jacky Raynal directs numerous documentarys, like Notes on Jonas Mekas (2000) or Eric Rohmer, the Film Maker (2010). In 2010, Jacky Raynal is rewarded for her work in arts the Légion d'Honneur (Knight in the Order Arts and Letters).

Filmography

• 2021The black bath — Herself, Director
• 2020L'homme qui part — La mère
• 2020La Fille oblique
• 2020Parisian Life — Director, Editor
• 2016Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas — Director
• 2015Two Rémi, Two — Esther Pardon
• 2014Welcome to New York — Dinner Guest
• 2011Eyes Find Eyes
• 2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film — Herself (archive footage), Editor
• 2011La cigarette
• 2010My Last Interview with Eric Rohmer — Director, Cinematography
• 2009Gougnette — Director
• 2005Zanzibar — Director
• 2004La nuit de l'ours — Director
• 2004Portrait de Jean Rouch — Director
• 2003Around Jacques Baratier — Director, Editor, Cinematography
• 2003Around Simon Lazard — Director, Editor
• 2000Notes on Jonas Mekas — Director
• 1985The Man Who Envied Women — French Intellectual
• 1984Committed — Thanks
• 1984Hotel New York — Loulou, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1984Naughty Boys — Femme Fatale
• 1981Cinématon XII — N°110
• 1981Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
• 1981Freak Orlando — Siamesischr Zwiling Leni un Bunny
• 1980New York Story — Loulou, Producer, Director
• 1978Cinématon — N°110 / N°2929
• 1975Saturday Night at the Baths — Editor
• 1974The Rehearsal — Editor
• 1972The Big Departure — Sterling Hayden's Wife
• 1971Jupiter — Hippie, Editor
• 1970Trap — La femme torturée
• 1969Camembert Martial Extra-doux
• 1969Destroy Yourselves — Editor
• 1968A Woman Kills — Angèle
• 1968Acéphale — Editor
• 1968Cinétracts — Director
• 1968Concentration — Editor
• 1968Deux fois — Director, Writer
• 1968Homero Presto — Assistant Director
• 1967Bizet Carmen — Editor
• 1967Heraclitus the Dark — Editor, Music
• 1967La Collectionneuse — Editor
• 1966A Modern Coed — Editor
• 1965Six in Paris — Editor
• 1964Cover Girls — Editor
• 1964Nadja in Paris — Editor
• 1963Méditerranée — Editor
• 1963Suzanne's Career — Editor
• 1963The Bakery Girl of Monceau — Editor
• 1962Merce Cunningham — Director, Editor
• 1958Bonjour Tristesse — Dancer (uncredited)
• How to Fold a Green Screen

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2019Felix in Wonderland — Self
• 2015On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan — Self
• 2013Pierre Clémenti, l'absolue liberté — Self
• 2007Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice — Self
• Cinématon n°110 : Jackie Raynal — self