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A solitary Frenchman seeks inspiration in a ruined duchy, meeting eccentric figures with their visions of art, madness, and myth. During 15 minutes he wanders across the broken edges of reality and sanity, he questions what form inspiration can still take among fragments of ruins and environment, as the viewer steps into his eyes and ears, discovering beauty within decay.

Somewhere, on a remote island, a Harpy is hatching her egg, but a vicious creature is going to steal it from her. She will have to defend it at any cost.

Red-tinted 9,5 mm Baby-Pathé version (1923) of a devilish contortionist short starring Fred Sato (1910/1911).

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it. He places a large brick on top of the head to make it stick. When he turns his back the statue turns into a living representation of William Tell. (Edison Catalog)

A woman and a cactus who wants to fuck...

Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.

An isolated young woman meets God through her machine.

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance of a narrative; additionally, the use of dissolves as transitions in it influenced other filmmakers for years to do the same. Méliès was the cinema world's preeminent leader then. By 1912, however, that was no longer the case; frankly, as evidenced by this feature, his style had become dated. Moreover, Méliès had begun to adopt techniques from other filmmakers, such as direct cuts instead of dissolves, and there's even a match on action shot during the slipper trying-on scene.

A young man and an old man are on a boat in the middle of the night. As they approach a huge stone archway, they will make an unexpected encounter that will send them to the border of space and time.

In Greek mythology, Hyacinth is a young man of great beauty, beloved of Apollo and Zephyr. He is killed in a terrible accident and from his blood a flower blooms.

Two lovers in shifting waters.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

In turn, the statues come to life, dancers like dolls, perform on a table, the women metamorphose from butterflies, and babies are born from giant flowers. These scenes are a series of tableaux which are beautifully incoherent, changing and diverse as in real life, where it is necessary to have a certain belief in metaphysics for the soul to be transported into a perpetual motion, migrating from one another and into the stars.

Two siblings dream of spending meaningful time together, then somehow reconnect, through a dream.

Tom is a ten-year-old boy who lives with his family in a small shack in the suburbs of Paris. His dog Django is his best friend, a landmark of affection in a house that often lacks it. When his parents violently separate, Django disappears. Tom goes in search of her.

In 1932 Harlem, aspiring jazz trumpeter Ethel Franklin struggles to get her foot in the door. Dejected after another fruitless night, an opportunity arises to prove herself as the greatest. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Ethel goes against the most sinister being known to man: The Devil.

Patouille is a little creature who lives in harmony with the plants. With his friend Momo, he discovers the amazing features of plants.

A fable from La Fontaine.

5 members of a family meet in the house of their recently deceased mother. But wine reveals everyone's secrets, even if it means destroying everything.

A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his arms about and suddenly turns into a magician. The magician produces an egg, performing several sleight-of-hand tricks, and places it upon the table with the small end downward. He then crudely draws a human face upon the shell, and the egg immediately begins growing larger and larger until it reaches the size of a normal head.

Paris, 2025. Humanity has been affected by a sudden and incomprehensible evil: the entire planet has become invisible. Karl, an outcast boy, is satisfied with this strange existence and leads a peaceful life in this new world. Until the day he meets Lila.

The first feature-length animated film in Canada. The story of a new village somewhere in Abitibi, it's people, it's church and a werewolf causing trouble.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft sometimes wrote his tales in a state of trance, even unconsciousness. Starting from mysterious audio tapes found at his home, 'Return to Providence' reveals the duplicity of this man from another time in broad daylight. We find him lost in his fantasies, trapped between the fear of vanished gods at the end of the seas and the peace of his childhood home in Providence, place of wisdom and constant daydreams.

In "Falling. Desert. Syn" there is the body of repetition—not of tautology but of smooth resurrection; a body dying and being resurrected in a dance without suffering. A body of the desert, which is not deserted, but instead possessed by a force of attraction towards the sky, a force as strong as the one towards the earth. A body for the stars, the same one which plunges into the underworlds.

The assistant of a creepy power couple inexplicably finds herself pregnant. Immaculata feels like an unexpected offshoot of Rosemary's Baby, between its half-open doors and a phobia of fluids.

A little child in a far-away planet ruled by synchronism and conformity starts showing antisocial behavior to the embarrassment of his parents, who take him to the doctors to be fixed.

Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some treasure beneath the waves.

This subject presents a remarkably clever series of illusions in which a Japanese lantern, several dolls, chickens, mice and grasshoppers play a very prominent part.

In a partially deserted city, monsters roam. Christine does everything she can to protect her daughter Alex from this constant danger, going so far as to forbid her from going outside. But Alex has only one desire: to join her friends at the concert of her favorite band, despite the risk of running into a monster.

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is currently presumed lost.

A heroic-fantasy musical.

Louis, young Toulousain of 7 and fan of rugby, finds himself suddenly invaded by a newcomer. And trust me, he's not ready to become a big brother... Supported by his faithful toys, will they succeed to chase away the newbie?

A girl with a disability, or rather a super power that makes her dangerous to herself and others, is left by her biological mother and soon adopted by the vicious queen of a society that exploits females and violates their reproductive rights.

In the beautiful South of France, Guillaume is a suicidal Frenchman. Vedrana is slowly dying in a loveless relationship. She is determined to make him love again, but his former fiancée shows up at his doorstep, pregnant with his child.

Succeeding in entering the past, a young man meets his favorite actress whom he adulates with passion. His identifying urges emerge, and the desire of replacement prevails : he makes his idol live forever.

How do souls travel to the afterlife ? What should the ferryman do ? Morgane, the water fairy, knows this (according to Per Jakez Hélias).

Claire is given a mission that no one wants by her advertising agency : to dust off the communication of a small parish, Notre-Dame du Saint-Esprit. Initially unmotivated, she ends up putting her heart into the work, won by the enthusiasm of the young and dynamic father Vianney. The campaign she launched on social media then works beyond her expectations : Jesus seems to respond to it, via a Twitter account.

In a timeless and remote universe, two enchanters are bewitching a strange being made of melted glass. But somehow, they end up falling under the spell of this sacred ritual: the one we call creation.

We are in a remote place in the big city of Antananarivo, two men are contemplating the twilight sun. The first, a soldier, in his forties, the second, an old man sitting on a chair, his back bent, he supports himself with a cane. The latter tells the soldier that a strange woman on the hill opposite practices a little ritual every night: she dances in front of a bonfire. As he prepares to leave to join his family, after two years of absence, this story intrigues him all the more as he cannot see the woman, he is a stranger...

Our actions have a greater impact than we think.

Stop motion short film explaining what stop motion is, specially made for an exhibition about STOP MOTION which is presented by Art Brutal at Annecy for the International Animation Film Festival 2014.

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.

A brother and sister must empty a large house they inherited from their recently deceased grandfather, a renowned artist and musician. As they explore the house, whose existence no one in the family was actually aware of, they discover a hidden room. Then, an inexplicable phenomenon occurs, without them realizing it: simply crossing the threshold of this room transports them into the past.

On the heights of the mythic Mount Olympus, a young girl unleashes a dangerous monster from a mysterious box. Will he scare the little devil that sets him free?

On the small Island of Ecrin where people literally feed on books, a fire-breathing Shadow suddenly appears. Every night, it terrorizes the village and devours new stories. Soon, a legend begins to spread: only the Perfect Story will defeat the Shadow. Louise, a reckless little girl whose mother was killed by the monster, lives with her father George. Overwhelmed by her behavior, he has decided to send his daughter to boarding school. Louise runs away and breaks into the Shadow’s castle: if she manages to kill it, she will become the village hero and make her father proud. She is accompanied by the cowardly but intelligent Edouard and his little sister, the fearless and cheerful Juliette.

Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and to give an apple which he holds in his hand on the one whom he considers to be the prettiest.