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The 4,000 inhabitants of the archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon describe it as a caillou—a tiny rock on which they live, lost in the shadow of Newfoundland. There is something mysterious and inexplicable about this extension of faraway France. In broad strokes, the film paints a picture of this insular population, revealing their history, daily lives and singular character.
A cinematic allegory of the modern U.S. at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Gilles Groulx’s masterfully poetic montage essay evokes Quebecers’ simultaneous aversion and attraction to the El Dorado that is Florida—both a giant nursing home and an ideal of progress, American style.
A young woman decided to make a show of her death she is going to look at during the whole film. We will see the progressive and long descent of a murderous machine which may pierce her throat.
TV short for the ORTF.
May 1944, in Provence, a young Jewish woman fleeing Nazi persecution, entrusts her three-month-old granddaughter to a stranger, Mathieu, a solitary shepherd who will raise her alone. Once the war is over, he will leave with her, in search of the mother. A research that will last more than twenty years and that will lead them to several European countries.
Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.
Short documentary film on and around the color red
On the mental images produced by those subject to certain psychotropic substances.
In 1970, Tahar, a young Tunisian, travels to France for the first time to help his older brother, who is wrongly accused of murder and incarcerated in Paris. He first stops in Marseille, where he meets Tunisians very different from those familiar to him; enigmatic French people; and a strange atmosphere that makes him doubt his brother’s innocence, his own innocence and his own mental integrity.
Inclinations is the result of several years of collaboration between the artist couple Eva and Guido Haas. Scratched and printed directly onto black film, the film frames were synchronized frame by frame with Dave Brubeck's Take 5. The working print of the film featured the shortest possible cuts, only four to five frames long. Where necessary, three of the four frames were then painted over in black again in order to be able to assemble the frame precisely.
Animated short film based on Ambrose Bierce's acerbic New Year's story.
Wednesday July 31, 1968, almost six months after the start of the "Langlois affair" which saw the government attempt to oust the founder of the Cinémathèque française, triggering massive support from the biggest names in world cinema, Henri Langlois finally resumed possession of the hall of the Palais de Chaillot and celebrates his return with a tribute to Charlie Chaplin.
The workshop of painting, modeling and sculpture for children under fifteen, at the Museum of Decorative Arts, rue de Rivoli (1st arrondissement). Pierre Belvès, creator of the workshop, animates the work of the children. A report from the magazine "Chroniques de France", produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for dissemination abroad.
“Rohmer traveled to the island of Jersey to find and film, alone and with a small Paillard 16mm camera, the places that had inspired some of his favorite poems…. […] Victor Hugo’s “Les Contemplations,” a work reread, walked, and filmed by Éric Rohmer, is in fact one of the filmmaker’s most poetic miniatures.” –Antoine de Baecque & Noël Herpe
Julien and Anty, two young slackers, take seven days to move three trinkets a short distance, exemplifying the strategy of least effort. They sit on a sofa on the sidewalk, waiting for the light to turn green, taking breaks and intermissions. The film humorously mocks these pseudo-intellectuals, who will soon be together in the same bed, drinking the same cans, just two streets away.
Suspense film coproduced between Colombia, France and Venezuela.
In the silence and tranquility of the early morning, between four dimly lit walls, the machines are activated and the ovens heated. A morning like any other, a black-and-white film that closely follows the movements, kitchen appliances, and machines. And a son, Jean-Pierre Bonneau, who films his father, a baker, performing his daily, repetitive, and equally precise and skillful tasks.
French horror short from 1965.
In Hamburg, an escape is being planned. Lisa, a prisoner's mistress, has decided to organize her man's escape. Franck has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a policeman. Lisa is helped by Gessler, Franck's lawyer. He risks his reputation and his career, driven by his undisclosed feelings for his client's wife...
This short film was an experiment in using video recordings and closed circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor Montreal neighbourhood. A citizen's committee filmed people's concerns and then played back the tapes for the community. Upon recognizing their common problems, people began to talk about joint solutions. It proved an important and effective method of promoting social change.
A tour of one of the most famous districts of Paris, marked by the passage of umbrellas, especially a red one that seems to be the protagonist of the short film.
Alexandre Alexeïeff is at work in his studio on the large pin screen during the making of The Nose. The film was probably shot by Claire Parker.
Memory of what belongs to the invention of cinema. the film is a single shot to be shown in any order and size (Normal or scope) made in eight hours with a machine that conceptualizes light.
Awakening is sort of the history of mankind transposed through the dream world of Peter Foldes who conceived, directed and designed this original work.
A beautiful evocation of the history of jazz and its performers. An introductory program to understanding the African American people through their relationship to the culture of all people: jazz music. A new and poetic language.
French horror short from 1963.
Children draw pictures of baby seals and react to the cruelty of seal hunting.
The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.
The African pioneer Edouard Sailly created a distinctive poetic cinema. Here, he ponders the state of mind of a mourning fisherman.
Journalists Jean-Noël Roy and Pierre Dumayet interview 'Zazie dans le Métro'’s young star, Catherine Demongeot, and her parents.
May 68 in Paris filmed by Alain Tanner, then director for Swiss Television. Images of Nanterre (92), the Sorbonne (Paris 5e), and the theater of the Odeon (Paris 6th), meetings, speeches and events, are accompanied by a commentary that recounts the events of the month of may.
An imaginary election in an imaginary country, illustrating Barnave's phrase, "The grotesqueness of everyday events hides the true misfortune of passions."
The film is content merely to walk among Douanier Rousseau's paintings, into a world beyond reality, to the heart of the painter's dream.
An experimental film directed by Michel Baulez.
In Hollywood, a writer and a director are working about a new french movie. The main actor is a shy young man, Léonard. Léonard tries to seduce a spanish maid, then a married woman and many other girls before he discovers sexual life with a prostitute.
Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.
A carpenter is asked by his boss to serve as a guide for the new secretary, a young woman just arrived in Montreal from France. Both of their lives change as he shows her around the city.
