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In Sorbone University Jacob Levi Moreno, father of group psychotherapy, directs a strange but brilliant psychodrama of a couple. The conclusion is that the wife and the husband could live in two different cities.

A wordless travel on a barge from Clabecq to Ruisbroek. This is the Boris Lehman’s student movie done for the INSAS school.

As part of the "continuation" of the "cut" made by Sollers-Pollet's "Mediterranean", Scopie therefore stems from a materialist practice of cinema, made here and now (among others within the whole eclectic named "Collectif Jeune Cinéma") more necessary than ever. Disappointing any phantasmal projection, the screen-support of what is woven, but also exceeded by it, its positive trace is proposed as a place where the perpetual, regulated circulation, between sound and image, inexorably disappoints the constitution of a full meaning, in which the subject-spectator could be comforted. (CJC)

Artistic short film about a man's pursuit of a woman, and its implications.

The story of a wild night of Carnival during which Bertrand tries to reconnects with his wife, whom he left more than a year ago. But, the presence of a girlfriend, a seducer and the Carnival, will throw a wrench in his plans...

Film diary of the famous Berliet Company expedition between November, 1959 and January, 1960. This mission, composed of historians, ethnologists, geologists, botanists and zoologists, is the first motorized expedition between Algeria and Chad, on lands still unexplored from Djanet to Lake Chad. The team collected valuable information on the prehistory of Ténéré and the resources of its soil.

From the film cycle "Exposing the Text"

This film, first titled La poubelle du labo (The Lab Trashcan), and after L'Enfer du cinéma (Cinema's Hell), has been projected for the very first time in September 1968 at the French Cinémathèque. It can be considered as the cinematographic equivalent of Tristan Tzara's method on how to make a dadaist poem by putting words in a bag, and it mostly rises from Isidore Isou's film enthusiasm. The film has been made in fact out of elements of film strips found in the trashcan of a film development laboratory, that have been subsequently taped together bit by bit following the exact order they were originally gathered.

A class struggle " Music Video ", in which Colette Magny sings a song in honor of the workers of the textile factory Rhodiacéta, whose six-week strike in 1967 caused a stir

The title of the film Émet refers to the legend of the Golem. It is an enigmatic film, coming from a reflection on the confrontation of man with his identity.

Short film featuring explosions from 100 action films.

In May 1968, amateur and professional filmmakers made very short, silent, black-and-white activist films using still images and text. Produced by the SLON collective, these films were shot, edited and screened to activists in the course of a single day.

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From the film cycle “Exposing the Text”

Freely inspired by the passage from 'Du côté de chez Swann' where Marcel Proust evokes Albertine’s Sapphism.

A film by Jean-Michel Barjol.

A "télescripteur" is a device in television control rooms which makes it possible to write credits, texts, mixed or not with other images, intended to appear on the television screen before being diffused. In this film, designed as a real interlude to interpose between television programs, a small character represents the "télescripteur".

In the Vientiane, Laos, a canoe race and a ritual ceremony are held, to persuade the great "nagas" (water spirits) to leave the wetlands and drain the water from the paddy fields.

The ritual activities of Gombélé, chief of Doré. He is the main religious chief of the Toupouri in Chad.

An adaptation of one of Samuel Beckett’s most powerful plays which is in fact a mime. A man sits in a desert and struggles to reach a flask of water and other objects symbolising relief or escape. The objects remain stubbornly out of reach, but the man doesn’t give up. What is significant about this play is that Beckett captured, without the use of words, the major concerns and motifs of Waiting for Godot and Endgame.

An account of the situation of Algerian women in the 60s.

Cruel portrait of a character victimized both at home and at his office.

Documentary directed by Philippe Genty, based on footage shot in various countries during his Alexander Expedition, carried out as part of UNESCO’s Major Project Orient–Occident. The film presents a variety of puppet styles, including Indonesian shadow puppets, puppets from northern India, masked theatre from Eastern Europe, rod puppets from Bucharest, experimental puppets from Poland, and Japanese bunraku. It also features puppets from Singapore, Laos, Malaysia, and the Bread and Puppet Theatre from Harlem. The film additionally includes short excerpts from the early Muppets by Bill Baird and Jim Henson.

A young man in a cafe is attracted to a girl sitting at another table. He would like very much to approach her but he is very very shy. So, in Walter Mitty's style, he takes refuge in his fantasies, in which he finds it easy to be seductive, saving his lady from every possible and imaginable danger. The trouble is that those who win in their dreams often lose in real life. Except that at times real life surpasses imagination.

In northern Cameroon, Kodoko, a young Muktele woman, is expecting her second child. A rite of exorcism is about to be conducted so as to rid her body of Matsam, a deleterious spirit.

With pins we can even illustrate a book, like "Doctor Zhivago", whose illustrations were created using a pin screen designed by Alexandre Alexeieff, grouping together over a million pins on a square metre surface area.

"A Parisian ethnographer travels to a small village in the depths of Africa where he records primitive sounds and music. Back in Paris, his recordings become fashionable and make him famous. He thus earns a lot of money. money and behave like a nouveau riche. One day, the village sorcerer comes to Paris and demands his share of the profits."

The film is made from the works of photographer Pierre Cordier, whom the artist calls chimigrammes, photographic images in various colors and graphics obtained directly on paper by pouring chemicals into them.

Archibald, a British playboy, marries a French sex kitten, honeymoons in a Paris hotel room, and spends the length of the film ignoring his sleeping wife and, instead, imagines himself on a global vacation meeting, photographing, and gawking at various naked women.

Le Jabrebbock is a mythical character who introduced the confusion into the language, destroed the meaning of phrases.

Ethno-fiction: a sociological portrait of a small Belgian village, Moulbaix, through the passion for amateur theater.

An account of the atmospheric nuclear testing campaign in French Polynesia (preparations, detonation, and analysis). During this campaign, which opened on May 8, 1967, three device tests were conducted. This film successively presents: the installations (Papeete, Hao, the Land and Sea centers, Moruroa); the Naval assets (base ships, LCTs, Ouragan, Rance, Garonne, De Grasse); the meteorological and transmission resources; the firing range; maritime surveillance; briefings; computers; and the tests Altaïr (June 5), Antarès (June 27), and Arcturus (July 2).