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Super8 – experimental – 2005

Poetic and melancholic evocation of a few fleeting moments in the life of Fernand, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a facetious dog, Colchique.

Plongeon ou le Grand Disque is the first film to be made using the 2-metre diameter Large Stroboscopic Disk (LSD), designed by Dominique Willoughby and produced by Achay Doan, which provides a new form of stroboscopic animated painting, a contemporary adaptation of the 19th century stroboscopic disks and phenakistiscopes invented in 1833 by Joseph Plateau and Simon Stampfer. From the line to an animated being, serpentine, fish, human, swimming, flying, plunging into a bottomless space simultaneously expanding and shrinking, from birth to stellar disintegration, indefinitely, swimming endlessly in loops and spirals.

May 25, 1969, La Rochelle, Just 20 years old, Gerard and Jerome Poncet Janichon begin a world tour that will last 5 years. To accompany them throughout the 55,000 miles of sailing, “Damien”, a boat of 10 meters and dreams of new horizons.

An entirely handmade animated film by Rémi, made at his home in Roubaix between 2008 and 2009. The story of a man who becomes a woman, flying sexes and a devastating bomber, all in an end-of-the-world setting. The “photos” section shows all of Rémi’s ingenuity in designing his settings and his character, animating him, bringing him to life, before ending up decapitating him. Hectic music from cellist Arnaud Marcaille, a beast of the stage!

The wolf has returned to the Vercors plateau... A menace to the shepherds and the breeders ? A precious object to be protected by the guards ? A fascinating symbol of authentic nature for ecologists ? As many visions of the mountain, as many projects for the wolf, the sheep, the forest, the prairies... Inspite of all the divisions, everyone can see that a new mountain is begining to come to life. A mountain which erases the traces of history and offers new approaches to nature and the wild.

After watching Louis Malle’s Place de la République, a young film-maker decides thirty years later to return on his footsteps at the same time of the year to shoot another documentary using an identical set-up.

Steve and Dave, two friends, decide to test some drugs that have not yet been released. The side effects are not long in coming: The two friends become bloodthirsty killers. Who will be able to stop them?

Since 1969, the Modca Café on Hamra Street has been synonymous with Beirut. Now, after more than thirty years, it is being demolished. In the young people fighting helplessly to preserve this embodiment of the city’s memory, we see a longing for and a vicarious experience of ‘social activism’. The camera attempts to resist traditional video activism as it accompanies these young people. Moving into the fluorescent light of the newly built mass retailer, the identity of the city is superimposed onto the fate of the café. A bold documentary essay that attempts to awaken various collective memories.

Three young people decide to spend a night in the woods but without knowing that they are already inhabited by a sort of monstrous zombie.

Hijacking of a 1989 documentary financed by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Igor Tcharkovsky ou le rêve impossible, a childcare method supported by the Church of Scientology in Leningrad.

"Carnets de Shanghai" (Shanghai diaries) is presenting itself like the sketch of a poetic, not historical, portrait of Shanghai, coming from subjective impressions and reflexion on the position and intentions of the filmmaker.

A man is shot, it is shown in slow motion.

A pinhole camera as an instrument to measure luminosity. Birth and growth of light according to Fibonacci's 'suite'. Total eclipse of the sun decomposed into a thousand of unknown fires.

Even today, large mother-of-pearl rings are still being crafted in some villages in Papua New Guinea in the strictest respect of techniques inherited from ancestors. In the Koboibus region, the manufacture of these rings is a long-term activity. Its production requires the carrying of heavy bivalve shells during a three-day long inland trek from the islands of Mushu to their destination. Once there, they will be patiently sawn with the braided cord, perforated and polished until they reach the desired shape, conjuring up both feminine forms and the Calao bird. This "ancestral currency" is intended to be used in ceremonies and processions but can also be used to buy animals and as a dowry. An essential part of the social functioning of villages like Yabomnu or Kuabila, each ring has its own history which also conveys the memory and beliefs of the peoples of New Guinea.

A blazingly hot film, painted by hand in the summer heat.

Kassim Dada is Comorian. However, he is condemned to live alone in Mauritius, far from his family. He is obliged to undergo this situation: sick, he must be regularly dialyzed. However, the necessary devices do not exist in the Comoros. His country, and especially his children, miss him terribly. Loneliness wins him play after day.

"Court-circuit", aired by Arte, goes behind-the-scenes in the making of "Barcode".

First, we see him take the road, then, for a long time, drive to a hypermarket far from the city center to do his shopping. Back at his restaurant, sitting at a table, he starts talking, facing the camera. Who is he? René Orduña. Neither hero nor victim, Rene is only a witness of his own existence during the 70s and 80s in the United States. A period of nomadism, geographical and amorous, whose only reference points were festive, this is what he evokes, without regret or nostalgia: the hypothesis of joy. And the film makes room for this word, playing with colors and sounds as cushions where it can be properly seated.

A play about the hazards of seduction.

A documentary debating the religious, social, juridical and medical aspects of circumcision. A wide variety of public figures express their opinion on the subject.

Short film by Jean-Philippe Desclandes and Genevieve Gauckler

"Over and over I am mesmerized by Jeanne Moreau's presence in cinema. Enigmatic, gutsy, provocative, she defines the true female avant-garde artist." - Lise Beaudry

A cynical, quasi-misanthropic film which, despite its childish appearance, manages to enumerate and decline some of the bestial mythologico-historical collectivities which have emerged from the collective imagination: Collodi's donkeys, the rats of Hamelin, Circe's pigs, Panurge's sheep, Pavlov's dogs. Contemporary television resembles a gigantic farm; the lure of success and fame which it offers is analogous to Pinocchio's experience when he was assured that he would never have to work again (lifelong entertainment) - and was transformed into a donkey! Individuality does not exist; Don Quichotte is not alone in believing in windmills.

The cinematographic machine gets under way and tries to awaken a memory. A trip down memory lane, following fragile indications and inducing images yet to be born.

There is only one true and definite way out of this world, but countless are the stories and representations, passages or journeys, towards the other, dreamed or feared, side - multitudes of other imaginary worlds which live inside of us; places, objects and beings of our existence, of our transposed world which is inhabited by our dreams.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me