Jan Kounen

Jan Kounen is a Dutch-born French film director and producer. In France, he is mostly known for his films Dobermann (1997), Blueberry, l'experience secrete (2004) and 99 Francs (2007). Outside France he is better known for his interest in Shipibo-Conibo culture and shamanism, with which he became familiar during his trips to Mexico and Peru, and for directing music videos of which the most notable are the four videos he made for the English pop group Erasure in the 1990s : Lay All Your Love on Me (1992), Voulez-Vous (1992), S.O.S. (1992), and Always (1994).