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A trip into Paris by the elevated railway, some tree’s whirl and a young girl. An ode to the elements’ natural movement.

A beautiful portrait of a woman and, no doubt, a love story. A long, palpitating pulsation of light and shadow on a seaside stroll, pulsations of gold and red on more fantasized embraces, and a final bouquet of pictorial vibration that intertwines film and digital. A magnificent opus from a visual artist.

Filmed in a movie theater in 2003, a short close-up sequence on the saccadic movement of the young girl walking head-on in Belà Taar's SATANTANGO, from 1994. The image, blurred by the zoom's focus, quickly seeks to avoid her crazed gaze by searching the background over her left and then right shoulder.

The poetic is based on the landscape and the illusion that between Lazio and Minettland, in Luxembourg, a symmetry would exist! The geography thus described is worthless because it is something else than the image superimposition, it is about destiny and path.

In April 2004, the Bassin Houiller Lorrain coal mine ceased all activities leading to the closure of its last well in Moselle, the last French well. This film is the culmination of a poetic expression that explores the limits of perception of reality.

Since the '90s, the Rives duo has been a fixture on Celtic stages and festivals in Brittany and beyond. Composers, musicians, singers and poets, the couple have surrounded themselves with musicians from both traditional Celtic music and jazz. Creators of the “Légendes” and “Si Bretagne m'était contée” shows, they have made a name for themselves among the new generation of Brittany's ambassadors, in their own category.

The story is about international adoption and how painful it can be. It‘s a portrait of a young Colombian adopted by a French family.

Portraits of four women, born from immigrant ex colonies extract, aged from 25 years to 50, followed in their emotions and feelings confronted to racism and homophobia in France today. The poetry is an important matter of the movie, build like a musical and visual poem, though it speaks of hard lived situation, but in a positive way.

‘With Bordeaux Piece I have for the first time written dialogues, with the help of the actor Josse de Pauw, who plays the role of the father. Each shot lasts between two and three minutes, and there are seven shots forming the story, a bit like in a fiction short. The plot did not matter to me; I needed a succession of photographs, quickly seen situations, and I chose the story of Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godard. It could have been a different story.

In the aftermath of World War II, the trial of Nazi leaders began in Nuremberg. It foreshadowed the advent of international criminal justice. Since November 1994, in Arusha (capital of Tanzania), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has been tasked by the United Nations with trying those responsible for the Rwandan genocide. In the face of a silent international community, the genocide claimed nearly one million victims, mainly Tutsis, between April and June 1994. How does international justice operate beyond its political foundations?

On Réunion island, inhabitants of Malagasy origin perform a ceremony in honor of their family's ancestors twice a year. The ritual in this film takes place at the home of Madame Sautron, a soothsayer-healer. The film follows the four stages of the ceremony, which lasts for 24 hours in all.

This hard-hitting film is the first to cover the shocking story of sexual harassment and rape of American women soldiers. The Pentagon has acknowledged receiving 3,000 reports of sexual mistreatment in one year alone. These female soldiers were not attacked by the Afghan or Iraqi "enemy," but by colleagues in their own platoons and sometimes by their own superior officers. Each year the number of reported sexual assaults has skyrocketed but not the number of convictions: only 2% of accused rapists are ever court-martialed. The double traumas of sexual persecution and combat may be why a 2008 RAND study found that female veterans are suffering twice as much depression and post-traumatic stress disorder as their male counterparts.Very few women have been willing to speak out, but four women, all in their twenties, and their families decided to talk openly about their ordeals.

It stages Ling's fantasy, a beautiful Asian woman, assaulted by three other women. They are respectively fair-haired, dark-haired, androgynous, all with Caucasian type. These three women will initiate Ling to love between women.

A young girl falls in love with another girl at first sight. But the girl is straight, so she has to deal with the homophobic reactions of those around her.

Produced in Istanbul, "L'Attirance" is an essay on an unsubdued desire that bathes in the silence of a presence. The immediate happiness of the skin, of the flesh.

Two youngsters turn a game into a lesson on martial arts techniques in a fight that takes the form of a minimalistic cinematic duel.

For several years, the Atlantic shipyards in Saint-Nazaire have been implementing a new work organization in order to reduce production costs. The principle is to make massive use of subcontracting and temporary workers. While the world's largest cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, is being built, shipyard employees tell us how they are experiencing this organized insecurity. What consequences does this reorganization have on an individual and collective level? What changes does it imply in the conditions and relationships at work?

How do the Burmese continue to live under a dictatorship which for the past two generations has impounded any form of hope? Along the River Irrawaddy appear signs of resistance of a people deprived of its guide, Aung San Suu Kyi -winner of the Nobel Peace prize- viciously attacked and sequestered.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

The director explains some of the themes behind his work.

Among the Wana people, semi nomads from the Indonesian (Sulawesi) forest, Indo Pino is a shaman recognized by everybody. Her nephew, who is also a shaman’s son, converted to Christianity some months ago and is now preaching the visions. And for him, if the visions come from God, the visions of the shamans inevitably must come from Satan. Through the Christian concepts of sin and original fault, good and evil notions are revised, The traditional healing practices of the shamans are heavily under attack. Under our eyes a fight between two worlds of religious conceptions is taking place.

In the Mahébourg lagoon in Mauritius "seine" fishing is still practised. It is a traditional occupation that today still allows men to survive.

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John Daube is the best dancer of all time, or maybe not exactly.

Oversight is a poetic voyage through engravings. Without ever quoting any of these works, the images play with their motifs and themes. The film is a set of representations where features, colors and signs merge the viewer with the very material of the images of a floating world.

A few blurry (or less blurry) animals here and there: sheep, cows, etc.

Layers of colored matters spread in space. They transform and its movements let us suppose that there is an underlying law that directs the images. Ephese is thus a shape, continually mutating, although its essence remains the same.

Les Illuminés (2004), 2004 year during which the wearing of the veil and the burqa in public places was debated in France. It is in the Parisian metro, a collective and socially mixed space, that Halida Boughriet records her performance. She directs the axis of the subjective camera towards the gaze of those she meets. This leads the viewer to face these stunned glances too. [Auto-translated]

Minor observations, confused and unconscious, run parallel to the perception of the whole. A sentence from Leibniz that defines my artistic trajectory.

An artist is given two alternatives. Which will she choose?