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An egg hatches in a landscape of sand and minerals. It develops, plunges to the ground, springs back, breaks a window and falls...

Just turned 20, Jacques seeks to escape the boredom of his parents' estate in the South of France. To the total dismay of his conservative family, he leaves to Spain where beaches are meeting points for the liberated youth of the time.

The Hammaguir site became the main launch base of the French space program, equipped with advanced tracking systems. After years of testing with Véronique, Saphir, and Émeraude rockets, including animal experiments such as Félicette the cat, the Diamant program reached maturity. Development was shared between the Laboratoire de recherches balistiques et aérodynamiques and Saint-Médard-en-Jalles. The Diamant rocket was assembled in November 1965 and successfully launched on November 26, marking France’s entry into space.

Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, this film is one part of the performance Le Voyage, created at the Cologne Opera in 1962 by Maurice Béjart. The music and the film take place just after death, at the moment when the Clear Light appears, as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. According to the book, if recognized, this Clear Light liberates the being from the cycle of reincarnations.

Film by Françoise Janicot & Bernard Heidsieck.

Description of the daily lives of Eskimo hunter families spending the summer in Cape Hope, Eastern Greenland.

The socio-religious structure of the Bobo. Yele Danga is a religious term which means "initiation". The diverse religious cultural themes, initiation, possession, purification of the village, propitiatory sacrifices are examined among the Bobo, population of farmers and among the neighbouring population, the Bolon.

Scenes from daily life in Mali, filmed in the streets of Bamako and on the banks of the Niger.

Daily and religious activities of the inhabitants of the Nepalese village of Tarap.

On the highlands of South Vietnam, the cultivation of mountain rice (paddy) brings more than food to men, it is incorporated into the animist religion of these mountain proto-Indo-Chinese tribes (with recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).

Inspired by the surrealists, this short movie is made of found film reels bought from flea markets.

A documentary about the painter Mario Prassinos. Taking his inspiration from nature, particularly in the Alpilles region, this artist’s approach is to capture the hostility of that world and convey it on his canvases.

Sophie wisely takes her piano lesson. But her teacher doesn't tolerate weakness on the part of her students, nor does she appreciate Sophie's unorthodox approach to the instrument. So the little virtuoso turns into a creature from hell, mischievious and belligerant, trying everything she can to upset and discourage her teacher, who has no way to escape.

In front of his easel installed on a terrace in the Luxembourg garden, an amateur painter is at work. His goal: to reproduce the Luxembourg Palace on his canvas. But this is easier said than done and to tame his brush and his reticent colors, he sets out to represent his subject in twenty different ways, using the different technical procedures used in animated films.

Working conditions in the Kelton-Timex watchmaking factory: workers working as puppets, fainting, accidents and as a bonus of the "New Society", Sylvie Vartan coming to sing at the workshop

A TV adaptation of the myth of Queen Pocou, a legendary heroine who sacrificed her own son to appease the hungry gods.

The life and work of Félix Tournachon, aka Nadar, the famed French illustrator and photographer.

Abstract portrait of a lighthouse and its lenses, set to Beethoven's Grand Fugue.

An animated short featuring a man struggling with a noisy pair of shoes.

Prepared and shot with a group of young workers, schoolchildren, the unemployed, etc., in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, inspired by the impetus of 1968, which helped to make our filmmaking activity (somewhat) better known. The young people chose the documentary form to show their lives as they wanted them to be seen, that is, on a daily basis, in their premises, at work, on the town, with their families, on wild camping trips... In this way, they drew up a precise and detailed self-portrait of a milieu hitherto almost totally absent from the screens.

ElectroRhythmes is a short videographic essay.

Film showcasing various French prototypes and technical innovations in the field of aerospace.

A tribe from South Vietnam lives in the forest and through the forest. In villages, throughout the year, mountaineers, by various techniques, make what they need. The film presents the techniques related to pottery, sparterie, basketry, forging, weaving, housing construction, etc. (recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).

Initiation of the possessed, participation in the rituals of the chief of earth and in the communal fishing of the dry season. Funeral ritual and burial of a man.

Ritual activities of the earth chief of the Moussey in Chad, first approach to mobile festivals for the new year: farming rituals, hunting during the dry season, Moussey and kera soothsaying systems.

In Niger, the Hausa blacksmith Boube Mainassara, a descendant of the ancient masters of fire, continues to produce iron ore through traditional processes.

Long before Woody Allen, the author sends his character onto the screen, where he ends up in the hands of mystical surgeons, revealing himself to be a movieman undergoing an intricate spiritualist montage. It is not the intestines that emerge from his abdominal cavity, but skeins of film. For cinephiles of new generations, this is a truly encyclopedic sketch about the technology of cinematic nature. Double exposure reprises; silhouettes in the negative (meaning not a bad mood, but a film original); editing with barbaric scissors – the character on the screen loses half of the body; there are gastric wastes in the form of a silent movie film with a silent hero.

Author of the footage – Marcel Belanger – is terribly pleased to look at the face of his wife: that, in fact, is the plot, and who would argue. And so he watches her smile, and when she slips away, the camera lens stumbles upon garden gnomes, flowers, and bustle of the street.

Ellebore is a puzzle film, it shows the wanderings of a young girl in the middle of ruins, wasteland. The fragmentation of Ellebore's spirit is reflected in a mosaic of irrational acts and inner monologue.

Today the term Alyscamps is associated with a famous promenade, Lucien Clergue explains its origin.

Manuela is above all an entertainment, a way to spend a sunday strike in a good mood with a camera and a tape recorder. It is a state of mind, that of speaking in the occupied Rhodiaceta factory, it is the story of a popular cultural association that makes fun of a photo novel or a soap opera of the late sixties ...

This work grew out of Knud Viktor’s private family recordings of his daughter blowing soap bubbles. Due to a cancellation from the intended composer, the film features Viktor’s first sound composition.

The Boganda Museum, museum of Central African art and popular traditions.

After an ethnobotanical overview of the main significant plant species in the region concerned, the Lang-Biang plateau, near Dalat, the film focuses on the operating chain of rice cultivation among the Làc.

This short uses a text by the Spanish writer Garcia Lorca to document the tragic fate of an animal in the cruel arena sport of bullfighting.