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Two police officers, Catherine and Patrick, patrol in Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal in Canada. During their shift, they arrest Jose Maria, a Mexican illegal immigrant who just crossed the border. The officers hold him at their station during the night, while waiting for the arrival of the federal police, the RCMP.

Andreï researches the sonic memory of plants. He has developed a technique for making sounds come back from the past. Andreï wants to keep a tight lid on his discoveries.

Même père même mère is the subjective fresco of an African state, it’s an existential research that moves from the conjunction of cinema as movement to travel as movement and vice-versa.

Invocation to light. The hands probe the surroundings and sink deeper into the abstract space of the projection. They seek contact... In a mixture of pure colors and crystalline sounds, the light responds to the call, imbues the face with clarity and transmits its message.

The projected image is constructed from deteriorated colour film (old loops from the the installation Little Girl), the agitated rhythm of the movements of colour and form underscore the movement of the spectator and the rapid eye movement. To renforce the movement the film was edited in a series of mirco-loops, similar material was assembled to create a sense of progresssion and familiarity with the image, brief passages of figurative material were kept as a sort of visual conterpoint to the flow of the abstract colour sections. This duality of material seems to change the speed of the images we percieve a double dynamic dynamics produced within the same material.

Some children play in a forest clearing. A young man appears from the forest and disturbs the children's game.

Selin is a young woman of Turkish descent living in Brussels, who has a passionate love affair with the idealistic police officer Jennifer. Unable to talk to her conservative family about her homosexuality, she keeps the relationship secret. Turkish mobster Kadir falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage. While Selin's unsuspecting parents are delighted, Jennifer is on the verge of arresting him for drug trafficking. The film highlights the cultural mix and the friction between the different communities living in Brussels and raises questions about the rigid traditions and the intolerance towards homosexuality within the Turkish community.

Railroad variations around sequences extract from a movie by Carlos Saura.

Nino Ferrer has had several lives: hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life -of his own making- breaking away from showbiz. All these facets are concentrated in a brilliant, complex, skinned character. "It looks like Nino Ferrer" is a film rich in international archives (TSR, RTSI, Rai...), rare documents (Super 8 films of the Ferrer family) and even unpublished films (Nino Ferrer as an actor in an advertisement for Italian cheese). The film is also punctuated by the memories of famous musicians such as Manu Dibango as well as by the singer's successes and his live performances (L'Olympia, L'Arche de Noé).

A man, after spying his neighbor night and day, decides to kidnap him. Love and pain, torture and tenderness... A death love story.

An experimental anti-violence secondary school that is often fraught with tension. A chronicle filmed at the heart of the education system, in which the headmaster remains the boss that everyone respects.

Two bodyguards set out to find their boss's killer before his son starts a mob war.

Taking advantage of his girlfriend's absence, young Seb tries to watch the porn of the month on Canal+.This ultimately proves more difficult than expected.

This documentary is based on my own conversations with Driss Chraïbi one year before his death on April 1, 2007.

Heinrich Marschner's opera, based on John Polidori's story "The Vampyre." Production from the Opéra de Rennes.

First of May 2002. Paris. 900,000 people are on parade and opposed to the rise of the National Front... Instant portraits of some demonstrators.

- "The Spells of Kenneth Anger" was shot in Hollywood in July, 2003. Anger gives an overview of his life and we see clips of his many films. He touches on his run-in with Charles Manson, being influenced by Alistair Crowley, working with Marianne Faithful, and he shows us his favorite place in LA: the Hollywood cemetary.

Vincent rehearses with his boyfriend the difficult announcement he will make to his father.

A succession of 12 short films more or less experimental aiming at transgressing any idea of norms. Those who animate the Queer Factory collective are gay, lesbian, bi, trans. and/or heterosexual. Their objective: to show the political sex of art.

Portrait of Dominique Aubier an extraordinary woman who, after the storm of December 26, 1999 over France, tells her story and invites us to an unexpected reading of the signs and events manifested in the cosmos.

This is the story of an ordinary Moroccan woman. Nezha is 46 years old. She works as maid for some French voluntary service workers in Marrakech. The film is built around five tableaux, five workdays, each one constructed around daily chores. The director watches Nezha watching her French employers who, for their part, pay little attention to her in exchange. The maid is part of the furniture. But Nezha laughs at everything, resists everything. Her story tells us about a certain world order.

The show of Star Académie at Centre Bell in Montreal, the 28th of June 2003.

Filmmaker Chadi Zeneddine offers four perspectives on life in Beirut over the course of thirty-three years in this episodic independent drama. In 1975, a wanted man hides out in a public restroom, where the graffiti on the walls speaks of the ongoing war and the toll it has taken on those who live though it. In 1982, a woman wonders where her boyfriend has gone as her isolation comes up against the abrupt and unexpected violence that plagues the city. A segment set in 1990 depicts a family that's been emotionally shattered by years of war. And in 2008, an elderly man living in a building that's been decimated by bombs shows off the snapshots he collects, which depicts people living under happier circumstances.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of David Lynch's Mullholland Drive

A commentary on censorship.

An interview with cinematographer Nestor Almendros about his work with French film director François Truffaut. Footage taken from the 1986 German documentary Arbeiten mit François Truffaut

Israelians musicians and Palestinians are invited to tour in France. Each of the 14 concerts is a huge success... But backstage, things are complicated.

In 2005, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the "Cut Killer Show" aired on Nova and Skyrock, Cut Killer released a DVD bearing the same name as his radio show. This DVD comprises an hour and a half of content dedicated to hip-hop. The "Cut Killer Show" DVD features a unique documentary on the history of French hip-hop, exploring facets such as radio, DJing, and the artists involved, providing a retrospective of the ten years of the "Cut Killer Show" program.

Demonstration under the rain in Angers against G8 environment.

Interview with Alain Jessua about his work on Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...

Super 8mm / color / silent / 1S / 3' 00

An inventory of incendiary practices across the world at the beginning of the 21st century as reflected in social and popular rituals, festivals, savage celebrations, riots and military offensives. This work is about the hypnotic power of flames and their spreading in jubilation, communion, transgression or terror.