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This documentary follows the traces of the French colonization of the country Lobi. In this region of southwestern Burkina Faso, there is not a village, not a family that does not remember the suffering brought by the colonizers. Confronted with the archival documents of the administrators, the oral tradition, through its numerous testimonies, allows us to trace back nearly a century of history, from the arrival of the first Whites until today. This word also testifies to the individual, social or religious consequences of this often painful history. Between the past and the present, between the living words and the writings of the colonists, "Mémoire entre deux rives" is as much a quest for Lobi identity as a reflection on "civilising" France.

Based on the text of Ratgeb / Raoul Vaneigem "Have you ever felt the same disgust and weariness outside the workplace as at the factory? Have you ever felt the desire to destroy a distribution plant (supermarket, big box store, warehouse) by fire? At the first opportunity, do you intend to smash your boss or anyone who treats you as a subordinate? Are you sickened by the systematic destruction of the countryside and the urban landscape? "

An old watchmaker turned toy maker is spending the last days of his life trying to recreate his happiest moment in life through a miniature set and a bunch of mechanical toys.

A short experimental film.

"The 'Musique Mémoires' collection was born from a heritage archiving campaign, intended to collect the testimony of composers, performers, conductors, and personalities from the world of music whose creations and actions have marked the musical life of the last sixty years. The aim of these lengthy interviews is to explore as fully as possible the musical journey of each artist: origins, training, influences, encounters, practice of the profession... Thus, a unique reference collection has been created, an invitation to revisit contemporary musical memory." (ina.fr)

This documentary, shot during the 2002-2003 school year, takes us to Harnes, in the former mineral field in the Pas-de-Calais region. In November, the start of the new school year already seems like a long time ago. The grey sky has replaced the blue and green of the summer. However, for the pupils of the primary and secondary schools, dullness is not on the agenda! Artists have come in town. They go into the classrooms with colours, stories and rhythms coming from somewhere else in their luggage. Things that can fill out the imagination, things that make anyone dream. We go with them, and on the way, we talk to them. We meet teachers and parents who are delighted to give free rein to the dream part that lies dormant in everyone of us. Image

Two people are standing, shooting each other. They move around Central Park (New York), on opposite sidewalks, separated by the street. One has the park for background whereas the other slides in front of the buildings. Each moment of this journey is recorded from two opposite point of view. What units these points of view separates them, the frontier between internal territory and external territory is created.

Performance cinema

Still shot of an urban landscape.

A poignant documentary exploring the motivations and risks of clandestine migration through the story of Modou, a young Senegalese man.

Techno-Colony, the gigantic computerized city is under threat from the Bio Bugs. The follow up short film is called Péril sur Akryls

A season working in the cooperation department of the French Embassy in Vietnam to see how France's presence abroad and its slogan, "solidarity and influence," are put into practice. A portrait of a unique administration.

This film has been entirely made from photo shots. The sequences are slow, the character appears as if in a bubble, a dream, a wish.

A filmed diary which chronicles two visits to the Olivas, a family of Spanish beekeepers from Salamanca, at the time of the honey harvest, in August and September. Their work and their itinerant life are seen from a friend's point of view.

In summer, an old ruined farm in the heart of a forest. Angèle and Vincent love each other. Their erotic games announce an event that Vincent will try to cope with.

Jackie Raynal plays director in a film in the process of being filmed. With great humor, she takes on the role of a filmmaker fighting to adapt a curious story: that of a 19th century countess who is raped by a bear. In periodic voiceover, she ironizes over the foibles of the nightmarish shoot - the fights with the actors, problems with the script and a failing budget - building a satire of the film-world and its vanity.

A documentary that explores the issue of animal confinement in zoos. The film examines the stance we should take toward this form of animal exploitation, which is increasingly being challenged. By giving prominence to dialogue and featuring numerous contributors—including historians, philosophers, ethologists, zookeepers, activists, and others—the film sparks meaningful reflection and explores several issues directly related to the question of animal confinement.

A series of incredible situations, with gory effects.

Back when sexuality was a "source of life" and free from contemporary prejudices. A short essay film documenting a radical historiography of women's sexuality through artwork from the ancient Asian hemisphere.

Burkina Faso, West Africa. October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the evening night’s silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Had the assassins been sent by his brother in arms, Blaise Compaoré, with whom he had launched the Marxist Burkina Revolution a few years before, and who took control of the country right after the assassination?

In Bangladesh, 49 million people are currently contaminated by arsenic contained in the water they consume daily. Not properly informed, abandoned and rejected, these people die in their villages in a total lack of concern. Through the personal accounts of Asma and Najma, two young contaminated girls, and Jamal, a scientist fighting against the contamination, this film hopes to contribute to the information being sent to these populations and the preservation of the future of our country, the Earth. For other areas could be threatened by the same problem in the future.

This little film was blown up from Super 8 to 16mm Kodachrome, and was shot frame by frame on the balcony of the 15th floor of the Bourcry tower. This was during one of the Preview Shows at Light Cone when a violent storm in Paris transformed day into night. When I got home, the water had seeped into my camera, rendering it definitively out of order.

On a Brazilian beach, two teenagers from the favelas talk about the joys and violence of their everyday life.

Making of the short film.

Video Installation on four projectors made by Pierre-Yves Cruaud.

When one is in the twilight of life, one thinks all is finished. One lives in expectation. Anxiety about the unknown begins. Sometimes one gives up, sometimes one hangs on desperately. Through close contact with these ladies, the apprehension of death can be felt. It makes us quiver and it even overwhelms us sometimes...

This sensitive and clear-eyed documentary accompanies five women at the edge of the labor market as they grapple with the compounded pressures of gender inequality and economic insecurity. Their unending work mopping, cutting, cleaning, folding, cooking, sorting, and calculating highlights the overlap of first, second, and third shifts for women, and situates the diffuse transformation of proletariat into precariat at the level of daily life. One of the key works by journalist and engaged documentarian Marcel Trillat. Although he passed away in 2020, his kindness, warmth, and generosity will not be forgotten.

The alarm rings. It’s time. What time ? Time to fuck! And if the woman is emacipating herself by sleeping with another woman it’s the moment for the husband to discover them together. From here the film is metric, which is to say that all the shots are constituted from 9 images or their multiples. The film is named ‘Hybrid’ because different shots from different films tell the same story, that of the man who fucks the woman who fucks the man. All in all of the man who fucks the man.

A forbidden movie. It's difficult to live with humans because it's difficult to fall silent.

"This is dedicated to all the people that know sexuality is a translation of being. A translation that mustn't be isolated from the whole. This is also in memory of Blaine and Teddy, your secrets will never be forgotten." - Anita Schoepp

Délices plays on the overlapping of images which, through the pulse of rapid editing, interweave in a graphic and colorful shimmer. Those fluid images combine a body with natural elements in a slow and continuous camera movement. A journey between images, between two worlds, that is symbolically represented by the presence of fish as a link between the surface and the unknown depths of the liquid element : between the conscious and the unconscious.

Ali Bellagha wants to be an artisan painter, but he is a painter of the feminine universe, he was inspired by Tunisian heritage to create an atmosphere of dream and fantasy; he tattooed his wife's back, he gave free rein to his imagination as a painter, but also to his pen to create "Le Séquoia bleu" which will be a one-of-a-kind album, the work of a painter from the Medina but also a creator through whom plastic art and writing make a unit.

Eight-year-old Ali is the laughing stock of his classmates because he is not circumcised. His mother decides to arrange for him to be circumcised. Ali runs away on the day of the ceremony...

The subtitles respond to each other and remind us with joy and joy that if we live, it is to die.

It is June. The rainy season begins in Mali. Henri-Francois Imbert arrives in Bamako. He is looking for his friend Doulaye Danioko.

Mathias was born in Guinea, in Fria, in the sixties. Fria was built at that time, by Pechiney, to exploit bauxite. The Lenault's, Mathias' parents, were one of the many French expatriate couples. Mathias left Guinea seven days after his birth, along with his mother. Mathias is of mixed race, Mr. and Mrs. Lenault have always been white.

For centuries, Tibetan nomads were the only inhabitants on the banks of the sacred Lake Kokonor—the Blue Lake—in Amdo (eastern Tibet). Starting in the 1990s, the area saw a dramatic rise in domestic tourism: It was not just the lake’s beauty that drew tourists but the Tibetan culture in general. This influx of tourists came at a cost: the locals now find themselves having to adapt to new roles in the tourism industry. This glimpse at the Kokonor community examines the transformation of the lives of the Tibetans who live there.