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Tumulte Aux Ursulines

In 1928, Germaine Dulac shot the film The Seashell and the Clergyman, which was based on the script of the surrealist poet Antonin Artaud. However, their co-operation ended in dispute which in fact culminated during the premiere of the film on February 9, 1928 at Studio des Ursulines. That night, as well as the scandal it caused, was indelibly printed on film history. Shot in the same cinema as that of the premiere, this documentary gives an account of the attack and booing against Dulac, primarily provoked by Antonin Artaud, André Breton and Louis Aragon. Alain Virmaux, a connoisseur in surrealism and particularly Artaud’s, recounts the period prior to the premiere and expounds the different versions of that night. Also, the documentary pays tribute to the Ursulines Studio, a landmark cinema of 1920s avant-garde film.

Tumulte Aux Ursulines

NR 2007
Biotiful Planète: Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon lived for decades off a single resource that seemed inexhaustible: cod. When it disappeared, strict quotas were introduced. As a result, the economy collapsed and people have been looking for alternative paths. On the islands, it’s the realm of the boreal forest. But with the introduction of the white-tailed deer for hunting purposes, this treasure of biodiversity is under threat of vanishing. On a more positive note, the only seal colony in Europe is doing well. The islands are also a haven for petrels, Atlantic puffins, and razorbills, which nest there by the hundreds…

Biotiful Planète: Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

NR 2008
Des Tarentelles

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.

Des Tarentelles

NR 2008