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A man hangs around an outside a tennis court. On the hard-packed surface, four teenagers play together, then they begin playing with the man a cruel game, from desire and frustration. In the streets by the train station, the man follows at a distance one of the teenagers.
In the Savannakhet region of Laos, a child dies while handling a cluster bomb.
Ruwaysched is a no man's land at the border. The last village in Jordan before Iraq... I went there without a real scenario. I was looking for a story for my film for a couple of days until Anne-Marie, the director of photography, played a song for me from an Iraqi-Palestinian band while our car stalled at the Iraqi border. (Nassim Amaouche)
Judith Abitbol filmed the work of pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer. More precisely his work on the twenty-four preludes of Claude Debussy. It was a question of filming the elaboration of the work of the interpreter, such as Jean-Louis Haguenauer conceives it, at home, alone, in front of his piano. What does he do for hours at his piano? What is his approach to the work? How does he find his interpretation?
Paris, winter 2004. A day begins. Confronted with the doubt of his own existence, a young man remembers the Stanzas of Dzyan. There exists somewhere in this wide world an old book, The Book of Dzyan (Dzyan from the Sanskrit word Dhyâna, mystic meditation, and first written in Senzar, Tibetan hieroglyphic language, -4000).
A penetrating, no-holds-barred video film in three parts about the crime that dominates and destroys Brazilian society. Part 1 shows four young thieves and drug dealers from the favela in Rio de Janeiro, who try to justify their lives as gangsters. In part 2, two Brazilian policemen talk about their 'moonlighting', including hit jobs. Part 3 is about a Brazilian evangelist who has given up his vocation to lead a life of crime.
In southern Italy, in the 1960s, women danced into a trance to free themselves from the tarantula's venom. A remnant of an ancient rite, I set out to see what remained of it in Galatina on June 28th, a feast day. Reusing the trance images from Mingozzi's film Taranta (1962), I contrast them with the beauty of Puglia and what happens today on June 28th, when the tarantella is danced until the early hours. "Des Tarantelles" is a poetic reflection on transformation, the survival of rites in our contemporary world.
At the Lybian border, the oasis of Siwa is the most eastern settlement point of the Berbers of Egypt, the Issiwannes. Isolated for more than two millennia, they have kept their traditions, their customs, as well as their own dialect. In the middle of the desert, Siwa has a particular archaeological wealth: the oracle of Ammon and the true-false tomb of Alexander the Great. A manuscript, today untraceable, also tells that in Siwa they celebrated weddings between boys...
A short film by Maria Kourkouta.
The Briton Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) is one of the most productive painters in art history: he created around 32,000 works, mostly landscape paintings. At the age of 14, the Royal Academy in London accepted him as a scholarship holder, and he later became a member there and taught at it. The “master of light”, as Turner was called early on, is considered the most famous forerunner of impressionism. Alain Jaubert's film presents the themes and experiences that determined Turner's work and life: natural spectacles, ships and extensive study trips to France, Italy and the Alps.
Few years ago (1987 - 88), I've been "victim" of chronic hallucinations. In front of the mirror, I was able to see my face distorting itself and transforming in strange creatures which, however, looks like it. Variations Colorées / Spectres (Work in progress) is one more step in my cinematographic works set about the theme of self-portrait. This one, becomes pretext to formal experimentations evolving to abstraction.
In July 2002, the illustrator Daniel Maja is invited to Ramallah and Gaza to develop a project for art schools in Palestine, despite the fact that most West Bank cities are under curfew at the time. Dominique Dubosc, the filmmaker, decides to accompany him. The film develops according to their two gazes, which play one against the other, or with the other, in two mediums, throughout the journey.
At the dawn of Spring, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, a young traveller thirsty for… sex, steals the heart of a rich exiled boy recluse in his "douar".
Short film.
Viktor is reborn. A tunnel dug into the cliff. A museum of natural history. A crypt. A bar. And Viktor who finds himself in front of shadows, others, and himself...
Antoine Barraud Short Film
A peasant comes to town and falls into anguish when he notices that he is different from the townspeople.
In 2003, the “Corporate Festival” was launched. This film was created in response to this latest manifestation of liberal cynicism.
The children do not care about the coming winter . They have a good laugh under the big cats, kissing. Under the warn shelters. It will get dark more and more early.
Ten years after their unforgettable summer holidays at Jeanne's house, Jeanne has committed suicide and Marielle and her sister Colombe go back there for the funeral. At the house, they meet Pascal, a neighbor whom Jeanne was madly in love with, and Leo, Pascal's daughter, who is now almost twenty. During the holidays all those years ago, Marielle was pregnant and too afraid to tell her husband. She has since divorced and her son, Benjamin, is now the same age as Leo was then. These people are reunited after so many years in a kind of hall of mirrors, where past and present reflect one another. During the funeral wake they go over the past, trying to understand why Jeanne committed suicide. Each one must shoulder some responsibility. Colombe, because she shamelessly slept with Pascal. Marielle, who wrote a novel, "The Fairy Wall", in which she laid bare Jeanne's childhood memories to her readers. But it is Pascal who bears the brunt of the blame.
In the forest, the herd of deer turns against the hound dogs that have been chasing them so far. From this unusual chase, new landscapes arise from the ground. This collage drama was made after an idea from a 19th century engraving.
When she's gone to Toulouse, Dolores has just left at home some Bristol papers.
Can popular songs be appropriated to convey the experience of a gay-bashing in Moncton? Or the need for acceptance? In an ongoing series of autobiographical performance videos named Overmelodramas, the artist explores our relationship to violence and culture, and questions our polarized tastes for melodrama and documentary.
"This is a rarely seen cameraless film, made using the pinhole technique by applying light directly on the unexposed emulsion. Cote explores celluloid with color filters and different intensities of light as if expressing his most intimate and vital self. The flashes of luminosity seem to be signals of connection, maybe hope, inside one’s inner darkness." - Mónica Savirón, Museum of the Moving Image
Les Hommes, French filmmaker Ariane Michel’s first feature documentary, is a cinematic exploration of Greenland. It captures the natural environment—the ice, stones, and animals of the country—during the annual visit of a group of scientists who come to perform research.
Electricians and electronics workers, pharmacists, textile and printing workers, painters and photographers, light workers, theatre, cinema and television workers, as well as the trades of sorting in food, are all jobs forbidden to daltonians; army, navy, transportation... Transgressing the prohibition, going to the botanical garden and having friends were the additional conditions necessary for the realization of the blue bean.
In this animation short directed by four Gobelins students, a time traveller takes off for the first manned trip to the future ... but the past beckons.
Taken in by a loving family at the age of eight weeks, Alanna grew up in the majestic wilderness of the Yukon mountains. Because her mother drank heavily during pregnancy, Alanna’s development was seriously compromised. She has fetal alcohol syndrome. She will never be like other kids. Tackling the subject with sensitivity, Julie Plourde’s documentary speaks to the heart. Alanna is a wake-up call about a tragedy that’s largely underestimated by the public but of growing concern to health professionals around the world. In French with English subtitles. This documentary was made as part of the Tremplin program, with the collaboration of Radio-Canada.
By painting his monumental work The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819, Théodore Géricault elevated a news event to the level of modern history painting. A denunciation of cowardice, an admission of human brutality, a fascination with disaster—this ambiguous and unclassifiable work that obsessed the painter echoes one of the greatest scandals of the Restoration and, at the time, creates a new aesthetic.
A short film from 2004, shot with an entry-level camera.
The emergence of a group. Lighted figures, turned to a light off immediately.
Right on the middle of the Indian Ocean, in the Seychelles archipelago, there still exists an island where the beaches are not inhabited by men but by birds : Cousin island. More than 250 000 birds live there, among giant tortoises and strange lizards.
Radio interview with Nicolas Sarkozy.
The artist breathes life into handmade dolls as she recreates a scene from Vigo’s L'Atalante.
A young girl's birthday is disrupted by a family dinner with too much wine and a few unwelcome revelations.