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“The sound is the ape of the light”, wrote Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher. Can the laws of optics be transposed to the world of sound? Can one see the sound? Through relationships between image and sound, voice and music, noise and performance, the film “The Ape of Light” shows a series of actions freely inspired from lesson-books and treatises on acoustics.
2006. Chantonnay, small town in Vendée. Antoine Blanchard, a lonely man victim of homophobia, is in love with a Catholic deputy, Philistine of Valence, who hides his double life from his wife and children. The romantic relationship is unhealthy, suffocating and does not take long to turn into drama.
Shayan and Homayoun are two undocumented Iranians who are waiting to obtain their papers. Together with around 15 other Iranians, they have been sheltered for months in a church in the heart of Brussels. After weeks of negotiations, the police turn up at the church to move the foreigners to detention centres. Their cases will be reviewed one last time, after which they might be repatriated to Iran. Driven to despair, Homayoun and Shayan make a final attempt by climbing to the top of a crane, defying a country where human rights should not be ignored.
You're running and you're running away, but you can't run away from yourself...
In a house in the middle of winter, two mice, named Kit and Tuff, only have until Christmas to save their ill brother. In their quest, and with the help of three orphans, is born the tradition of the the Christmas stockings.
Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill
If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job.
'FROM' 2001 (4 films) *A series of 4 travel films made between 1998 and 2001 according to an identical principle of scrolling all the filmed images, captured in precipitation and slowed down.
New York. In the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Max hears a baby laughing. Nobody is around. It comes from a garbage can.
Salman and Jean-Ryad, two gay beurs, dream of leaving their suburbs for the capital. Karim, Salman's childhood friend, heterosexual with a tendency to exhibisionism, is looking for roommates. A voluptuous climate will quickly reign over the beurs' apartment, until Jean-Ryad receives strange calls from a certain Seif and the visit of Jad, the troubling Lebanese neighbor.
Guadeloupe, French West Indies. A man throws a can of soda in the middle of the forest. Eager for vengeance, a leaf starts hunting him.
Las Vegas : a fast-growing junkspace spreads in the desert, populated by moving shadows. The urban frame and the crowd are condensed into one dimension to form an abstract image of the city, disembodied and melancholic. In a continuous movement that seems endless, the landscape is written.
Waiting for the solar eclipse in a small village of Normandy, with tourists, amateur astronoms, and farmers.
In the bedroom
A portrait of Yann Paranthoën, French sound artist.
Like a puzzle, this film works on different elements: a guided tour in the waste lands of three cities (Brussels, Hamburg, Roma), a documentary about stray cats and the people who food it, some choreography of daily gesture, a question about cartography (and the common using of space), like a "wink" about the human Order and Chaos and a statement on the present difficulties of the Inutility.
Carrion Remember the object we saw, my soul, This beautiful summer morning so sweet: At the bend of a path an infamous carrion On a bed strewn with pebbles, Legs in the air, like a lustful woman, Scorching and sweating poisons, Opened in a nonchalant and cynical way Her belly full of excitement. The sun shone on this rot, As in order to cooked to perfection, And to give back to great Nature a hundredfold Everything she had joined together ... - And yet you will be like this garbage, To this horrible infection, Star of my eyes, sun of my nature, You, my angel and my passion! Yes ! such you will be, O queen of graces, After the last rites, When you go, under the grass and the lush flowers, Mold among the bones. Amors, oh my beauty! tell the vermin Who will eat you with kisses, That I kept the divine form and essence Of my decomposed loves!
To embody moments of transition between two different worlds, worlds which look alike. There are only antechambers and settings. Being the mask one wears, I have lost my decency. Dream and lie, what is the prospect of a one-eyed man? I question the dreamer’s figure as being simultaneously the emitter and the receiver of its own visions, the director and unique spectator of its projections.
An animated light opera. In the garden of the Royal castle, a troubadour sings a serenade for a beautiful princess. But the song doesn't fall in the liking of the subtitle, whom tries to turn the story to his desire...
This must be the wood, she said thoughtfully to herself, where things have no names.
Relive the major events of the space conquest: first orbital flight with the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1, in 1957, first manned flight with Yuri Gagarin, in 1961, first step of man on the Moon with the American astronaut Neil Armstrong, in 1969, birth of the European rocket Ariane, without forgetting the exploration of the planets of the solar system and the latest advances in astrophysics… 50 years of space, 50 years of images!
Five seamen on the Irish Sea, five men who have left their families to try to recover, far from any civilization, a primitive state...
