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16mm experimental 2005-2008

One autumn Sunday, Solène, Anita and Olivier meet for lunch with Solène's parents. Leaving the parents for dessert, they go for a walk, cross the village to pick up Jean-Christophe, Solène's uncle. Everyone goes on the beach for a long walk.

A korean girl, illegal immigrant crosses the vast continent between Paris and Seoul, in search of the true meaning of the freedom by following strangers on the road and through her dream of the beyond world.

Metti Franzen was born in 1927 in Rumelange, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Former iron miner in the galleries of the Walert mine, he is one of the last witnesses of underground mining work in the Grand Duchy. The Walert Mine ceased operations on 31 December 1963 and was converted into a museum in 1973. Metti Franzen contributed, along with others, to the foundation of what is now the National Museum of Iron Mines. He was then and for more than thirty years an attentive and passionate guide of the MNM.

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.

Documentary film of a detailed visit of the Sainte-Chapelle, reliquary of the crown of Christ and masterpiece of Saint-Louis. A first part of 35 minutes focuses on the architectural aspect: General architecture La Chapelle Basse La Chapelle Haute The second (35 minutes) resumes and explains in detail nearly a hundred of the most beautiful stained glass windows in the Chapel. The New Testament in the abyss The Old Testament in the nave The apocalypse in the great Rose and the exceptional glass roof of the relics, key to reading the glazed program. An interview (12 minutes) with Mrs. F. Perrot, Research Director at the CNRS, enlightens us on various historical, political and religious aspects of the time. Finally, an anthology of views of reconstructions of Paris in the Middle Ages (3 minutes views in Roots and wings) makes us discover the Palais de la Cité and the Sainte-Chapelle.

A stone riddled man moves towards a statue woman, between stone and flesh, earth and sky. Ancient cities, countryside roads unthread and mingle with memories and imagination.

The film pays tribute to Maître Marie Elyse Gbédo, the Beninese iron lady who ran for her country's highest office for the second time in March 2006. The film introduces us to this exceptionally beautiful lawyer, who is fighting to radically change the political customs of her country. This film also depicts another Africa, where politics is not necessarily a matter of machetes or bloodshed, but a civic struggle where political engagement is accompanied by music, dance, and celebrations in a dynamic that demonstrates the political maturity of this small West African country, Benin.

Seriously ill, he knows he's going to die, that his days are coming to an end. Guiseppe Tommasi, 44, decides to take control of his destiny. During his final months, he tries to find peace with himself, his children, and those around him. And he succeeds. Thus, what should have been tragic becomes illuminated by beauty. Giuseppe's passion shows us the story of a man who seized his last chance to end his life in peace and dignity.

After narrowly avoiding death in a tragic accident, a young writer and musician from France named Hugo Durain, finding himself robbed of his ability to perform. He subsequently decides to take his life into his own hands. He moves to Quebec to become a filmmaker. While working nights as a school janitor, bizarre and unexplainable events begin to take place, leading him to a terrifying story hidden within the school walls. This is when everything changes and Hugo finds himself immersed in an ambiance of suspicion, intrigue, and fear. It is on the other side that the secret will be revealed.

Three chapters showing the different stages of the butoh dance. The contrasts between this traditional dance and 3D.

Pascal Baes experiments with the reflecting feedback of a video projector in a meticulous interaction with a performance by his life companion Aï Suzuki. In post-processing, the images were digitally edited, which results in an expressionist, abstract study of the human body. With the help of various effects, Baes radically intervenes on the images, mutating shapes, penetrating textures and reconstructing his visual experiment into a psychedelic phantasm of the ‘corpus humanis’ and distorted sensuality. Demographical lines fuse together with shreds of human body and facial traits in a restless outburst of colour, lighting and movement, expanding in interaction with an electronic composition of sliding and lashing sounds into a claustrophobic experience.

A young inmate tells his life story. He confuses the beginning and the end.

In Nigeria, in the villages of Apir and Fiidi in the state of Benue, the women of the Tiv ethnic group struggle daily to improve their lives. As a result of their work in the fields and the sale of their harvest at market, most of these women have been able to attain economic independence. In 1987, the Nigerian government, prodded by the United Nations and women's organizations in Nigeria, developed a program for supporting women in rural environments called the "Family Support Programme," which encouraged them to organize more effectively and to form co-operatives. Several representatives of the government and the Programme present the broad outlines of this project, and talk about the women's investment and the problems they have encountered. The women describe their role in these co-operative associations and how they view this collective work and its benefits, which enable them to improve their socio-economic situation.

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.

Papyrellas, or papyrus boats, are often represented on the terracottas, paintings and mosaics of ancient Egypt. The papyrus plant, however, disappeared from the Egyptian countryside centuries ago, and one must travel to Ethiopia to see such craft, locally known as tankwas. The papyrus reed grows on the banks of Lake Tana, a lake that lies at 1850 metres above sea level and through which the Blue Nile flows, by more than 4000 km far from the river ' s mouth. The local inhabitants use the long stems of this plant to build their boats. Bundles of dried papyrus, laid end to end with a slight overlap, are lashed to an untrimmed pole of eucalyptus wood that acts as a sort of keel. Its length depends on the end use : from 1 metre for those built for children, up to 12 metres for the largest that are used to transport cargoes of wood, fish or as ferries carrying a dozen passengers from one bank of the Nile to the other.

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.

The "Enflés" are those laborers who load and unload the bags of goods from the docks to the trucks, from the trucks to the warehouses. Paid by the task, the swollen wait for employment at the crossroads of the shopping streets of Port-Louis.

Based on the miraculous story of a man who crossed a minefield and survived – the experience of boxers, mine clearance experts and warriors underpins this exploration of how conflict is perceived, managed and represented.

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?