Born in 1945 in Pontrieux (Côtes d'Armor), Jean-Louis Le Tacon first studied sociology and revolutionary film. In 1971, he established the collective, Tore Benn, inspired by Dzigo Vertov's Kino-Pravda. Lecturer in mass-media sociology at the Université de Haute-Bretagne (1973-1977), he later worked for a year at Saint-Cadou as facilitator-director in the audiovisual workshop. He later installed himself in Paris, and studied under Jean Rouch at the Université de Paris X. His first video, directed in 1982, is entitled Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft.