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"Sounds of images" come to me from the windows overlooking rue Saint-Maur (the former pilgrims' path to Saint-Denis) and suddenly make me want to take a closer look. "Images", at the same time, spring from T.S.F.'s post, Louis Moreau Gottschalk starts playing on the keyboard of the pedestrian crossing at the bottom, there, just below my windows; Henri Vieuxtemps makes the umbrellas dance to an old American tune and Gaël, on a visit, takes up this tune on his magic flute. "Some naturalists claim that insects adapt to the vegetation around them and modify their physiology accordingly," says Louis Moreau Gottschalk; I claim that some filmmakers adapt to the spectacle around them and modify their perception of the world accordingly. Certainly I am one of them, and I console myself by thinking that I am not the only one of my kind.

Four tales of Jean la Fontaine tell in a libertine way. The pleasure of infidelity is described in all forms: a woman seduced by her servant, a man seduce his servant, the wives of Messire Guillaume, and a bourgeois and a nun.

Eleven-year-old Papik (nickname for Yannick Vallençant) dreams of climbing Mont Blanc with his father, Patrick Vallençant. After serious training, the adventure begins: they set off from the summit of the Aiguille du Midi, climb the ridge of the three Mont Blancs, bivouac at the Col de la Brenva, cross the Mur de la Côte and reach the summit of Mont Blanc. No child his age had ever before achieved this feat by this route.

In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.

Abattoirs is shot in black and white and has a very sparse soundtrack. Its takes are stark there is hardly a camera movement sometimes photographs are filmed. Furthermore, almost unique in the history of film the film has square pictures which add to its intensity. (miff.com.au)

An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.

It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.

Emilie, a brilliant American violinist, abandons her passion and leaves her country for no apparent reason. Daniel, an engineer and convinced pacifist, tries to fix military computer programs. They meet and live a crazy love. They know nothing about each other.

Jean-François loves Constance with a tender and passionate love. It is enough to see the behavior of this lunar clown to realize that every moment passed away from his beloved is a real torture. Shared between endless trips in the corridors of the metro and evenings between friends, it is not good in his skin. In search of complete happiness, he tries to satisfy his vocation: to become acrobatic with Constance, but, as a result of mediocre performances, even null, this aspiration leads to a dead end.

An aficionado barber lets his clerk shave a client while he watches television and mimes the bullfight being broadcast.

In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

Winter 1870, in an isolated farm in the Vosges. Two brothers, Jean - says the Mexican - and Philippe, discover a young injured girl in the snow. Learning that she is wanted for murder, Jean takes her in, cares for her and protects her.

At the age of 77, Roger Lapébie is the oldest winner of the Tour de France still alive. Half a century has passed since his legendary victory in 1937. Yet Roger still covers more than 200 miles each week by bicycle on the highways and byways of the Landes. The portrait of a great, good-natured cyclist, who declares: 'I love my bike more than I love myself.'

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned for a short while in 1973. Disillusioned after the failure of the demonstrations and the death of the only woman he had loved, his life seems to have changed from a period of hope and activism to one of bottomless despair. His friend, Romain Goupil wrote and directed this biographical documentary. Death at 30 received the 1982 Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera Award for "Best First Feature-Length Film."

A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.

Outtakes from "Marseille toujours".

Short movie for the song "Une autre histoire" by Gérard Blanc.

The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.

Professor Wilcox, recognized for his research on magnetic phenomena, decides, in the company of his assistant and a famous adventurer, to fight the evil forces which are devastating the planet.

Cut & paste film that uses footage from the Thai movie ตามฆ่า 20000 ไมล์

Skin and Bones gently introduce us to the world of anorexia and bulimia. The heroines of this moving film in which reality and fiction merge are called Annie, Andréanne, Hélène, Eisha. They have in common their youth and charm - as well as a terrible tendency to self-destruct.

Xueiv - anagram of old -, was created in 1982 from an initiative of the association Vieillir autrement, mobilizing in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais regions "thousands of people, miners, farmers, trade unionists, retirees or high school students to reflect on aging... and on life itself ".

Life By The Fingertips is a documentary film by Jean-Paul Janssen released in 1982, directing Patrick Edlinger totally living his passion, climbing, which he practices here solo ("with bare hands"), it that is, without a rope or any kind of insurance. The film begins with a session of solo sea crossings on the Piade site near Toulon. In the second part, Patrick Edlinger trains in Buoux before carving a solo route in this now famous climbing site. This mythical film in more than one way is considered the first climbing film, that is to say where climbing is an activity in itself and not a means of preparing for mountaineering. His media success was such that he propelled Patrick Edlinger to the rank of world star, and above all he made climbing known to the general public, and was even nominated for the César for best documentary short film.

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

Early work by Joanna Hogg.

In a working-class immigrant neighborhood slated for demolition, Jo, the son of Ali, known as the Rescuer from the Algerian war, lives idle and delinquent, committing small assaults to pay for his drugs. One day, while attacking Slim's bar, he is arrested by Ben, a young beur cop torn between his roots and the imperatives of his mission to maintain public order. Giving in to the respect and friendship he feels for Ali, Ben agrees to release his son. But alas, far from calming down, Jo drifts deeper into violence, until the inevitable drama.

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.

The inner courtyard of a building in Belleville. Workshops and apartments where a painter, a saxophonist, a dancer from Cameroon and an actress live. A strange love affair is going to take place between these four characters.

While jogging on the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Michel sees a young woman trying to commit suicide. He takes her into his home and a love affair begins that both saves and destroys each of them.

At her poolside, a woman is sunbathing while watching polaroids of her and the man with whom she has just lived a love-passion of three days and three nights. A phone call interrupts her reveries.

Lecture at Vincennes - St Denis : the point of view Date of presentation : 18/11/1986

Guillaume Fontaine realized the Résidence des Orchidées, an architecture model which makes him very proud. But theft and agressions multiplies. Tenants get worry. A young prevenant man, Jacky, makes a gang run away. More and more appreciated by neighbors, he becomes the security guard of the residence and installs a lot of cameras an microphones. Thing that Guillaume does not like at all.

A short film by Paul Vecchiali, produced during the Diagonale years.

Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Henri has closed the agency in Paris and hasn't booked any hotels or attractions for the trip. Without any money, Daniel and Xavier decide to continue the journey. Their luck is their meeting with the rich Prince Douzami who falls in love with one of the tourist, Marilyn, and he decides to help them. The trip is still disturbed by two criminals Mata and Harry who want to take a microfilm that daniel has unfortunately swallowed.

In a small French village, Communist activist and poet Ovida Delect undergoes her social gender transition with the unbridled support of her wife Huguette. Meanwhile, the couple's teenage son harbors some serious reservations about Ovida's transition.

They imagine it, sense it, hear it, and see it—the mountain, they, the hikers.

In this black and white drama, a boy and his uncle, Italian immigrants in France, live together in a housing block. The boy is a very sensitive young fellow, and and doesn't understand how his uncle can possibly find bullfighting so attractive, and how he can, apparently without feeling, kill a sheep. Later, a woman by the name of Pandora enters their lives, and a complicated rivalry among all three develops as they vie for one another's attentions.

After the birthday party of his wife Odile, Louis accompanies a friend to the station. When the train leaves he starts reminiscing about his youth.

Around the year 3000, Pierrot, Psi and the robot Metro, inhabitants of the planet Omega, are tasked with ensuing space security. When they come under attack, their ship crash-lands on an unknown planet...

The dream, which filled half of her life, was no longer enough for Maryvonne. She leaves her husband, child, lover and leaves for Paimpol. And there, it's a breath of fresh air in the form of real life, reality finally joins the dream.