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In 2003, during a trip to Japan, I filmed about ten hours of rushes with a Mini DV camcorder, thinking of making a film that I never managed to finish. The work of time opens the mind: I dive back into the images, digitize them and by looking at them I finally find a form, bathed by the writings of Chris Marker and Nicolas Bouvier on Tokyo. “Faces” was born sixteen years later. It is an invitation to immerse yourself in the heart of a city and its inhabitants. A form of audio and visual narrative, punctuated by only three intertitles, takes the viewer into an ecstatic state between dream and reality.

Two Kinder-Bueno sellers walk through the parking lot with their merchandise in their pockets. They enter a block of flats and are stopped by two police officers who chase them. A race ensues, followed by shouts of laughter. The vendors find refuge in a church cinema where they meet a lawyer and a teacher…

Men who have come to France, separated from their children who stayed in their country, are living in a center for immigrant workers. A musician invites them to sing lullabies. Within the intimate setting of these workshops, they reconnect with buried emotions and memories. These lullabies resonate with their testimony on the complexity of paternity from a great distance and life between two countries. From far away, the voice of a child tells us the father's lack and the wound of separation.

A digital re-edit of the film "LE GRANIER"

Arte with its "Court-circuit" programme will leave no secrets left unturned as it takes you behind-the-scenes to see how the film "Flow" was made.

Thérèse cultivates a Creole garden in Guadeloupe. She resists against some invisible poisons. Her hands are confused with the soil. Her face with the light.

Echo 1, alone, guided by radio, makes archaeological excavations in search of traces of human life. Imprisoned between the post-apocalyptic infinity of an arid universe and the cramped confinement of a rustic shelter, his only escape lies in the dreamy contemplation of simple and majestic nature.

Based on Hermaphrodite from Book IV of Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by Marie Cosnay.

This work is a long-term research project developed until now in 10 different cities over the world: Seoul, Bogota, Naples, Saint-Petersburg, Rabat, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Doha and Venice. Born as an artistic commission for the Agora Biennale in Bordeaux around the theme of the moving landscapes, these videos plunge into cities in a spontaneous and subjective approach with very modest means in order to translate in the closest possible way the feel of their constant moving nature: their human landscape. Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together.

This work is a long-term research project developed until now in 10 different cities over the world: Seoul, Bogota, Naples, Saint-Petersburg, Rabat, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Doha and Venice. Born as an artistic commission for the Agora Biennale in Bordeaux around the theme of the moving landscapes, these videos plunge into cities in a spontaneous and subjective approach with very modest means in order to translate in the closest possible way the feel of their constant moving nature: their human landscape. Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together.

The times are fueled by anxiety, and our tweets will not say the opposite. A feeling of the end of the world hangs over our economic model. The frustration, for those who feel it, seems inevitable. The question of meaning has never been so acute. It’s time to talk about it, and who knows, to find answers.

The Sunstill brings together in the same space-time the twilight moments of the city of Rome filmed throughout three months. Over the course of 6 hours of film, Rome becomes the terrain of a strange, almost infinite evening.

The DRC is one of the poorest countries on the planet with one of the highest proportions of millionaires. While 70% of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, 6% are millionaires. Businessmen, artists, former rebel leaders or evangelists, many have made fortunes in chaos. In the capital, Kinshasa, these new rich live in the heart of secure and luxurious enclaves, while elsewhere, children work several hours a day tens of meters underground extracting coltan.

A mosaic of cultures, Spain is rich in the many influences that have passed through its history. Iberians, Celts, Phoenicians, Romans, Ottomans and Jews have shaped Spain's cultural heritage, making it the third country in the world in terms of number of sites classified by UNESCO.

Travel agencies specialising in perilous holidays are offering organised trips to war zones and even areas struck by natural or nuclear disasters. We follow one group of tourists as they scale the mountains of Hindu-Kush in Afghanistan, climbing 4000m above sea level in order to ski down this one-of-a-kind slope. In Indonesia we see a different kind of extreme tourism, with plucky thrill-seekers invited to climb Anak Krakatoa, an erupting volcano. In Ukraine, adventurous tourists come from all over the globe to visit the dead city of Chernobyl, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history.

Alba is flourishing. At that strange in-between age where she is neither a girl nor a woman, she faces love, her sexuality and the overwhelming power of hormones for the first time.

Emilienne could have been my grandmother if she hadn’t had a taste for travelling. In her home village in the heart of the Jura Mountains, she remembers the years she spent in New York. I discover scraps of her unsuspected life there in the super8 films that she has entrusted to me. Yet something else captures my attention…

How better to understand how the ice flies and dies than sticking your ear to it? Ludovic Moreau is a geophysicist who seeks to unravel this mystery: why does the ice pack melt faster than in the forecasts? To conduct this investigation, he travels with five scientists near the North Pole, in Svalbard Norway. On a frozen lake they put seismic sensors to record the song of the ice. A song that may help break the secret of the ice pack and its decline.

Hidden from the eyes of those who enjoy the river and the sun, a hill becomes a place of ephemeral encounters. Here the bodies melt in the shade, resistant by desire. From there, a voice rises.

Baptiste is twenty-eight years old, twenty-five of whom have passed in apnea, in an unknown suffering. Suddenly memories of rape resurfaced. He was 4 years old when his lifeguard stole his childhood in a municipal swimming pool. Rather than ignore and survive, Baptiste decides to face and live. Then begins an intimate quest, in the depths of her vulnerability, to piece together her hidden past and extricate herself from this nightmare. She will lead him, three years later, on the track of the aggressor.

Love emerging on the airwaves, filled with all the sweetness and intensity of first emotions.

In this world we would all know a natural, biological, sex change before 30 years and this is the wonderful news that Joe will announce to her friends: her turn has come. Her friends are delighted. However, at the announcement, one of them will reveal their true feelings against this natural process.

Lalla, a woman who was born a boy, comes back from Thailand where she underwent a new operation. Zacharias, her young nephew, invites himself over the evening of her return. Since her transformation, the family have distanced themselves from her. Fascinated by his aunt, Zacharias is counting on getting closer.

Fritland was born in the 1970s when a family of Albanian immigrants, fueled by the American dream, landed in Belgium while waiting for something better. The Laci family bought a space behind the stock exchange and opened their business there. Zenel worked fourteen hours a day: fries, cones, fricandelles, Andalusian sauce. But what he really loved was literature, art, dreaming, and telling stories. And he knew a lot of stories, from watching customers come and go, struggling to escape his fate as an Albanian chip shop owner, to find his own path, his freedom...

The story of the caterpillar, which dreams of becoming a butterfly, with the same fate as the main character from Andersen’s “Ugly Duckling”. How to love that what you do not see and that what you do not know?

In the aftermath of some catastrophic event, a group of six men and women are all that survive. Each must find their soul mate within the group to ensure the continuance of the species.

Animated by his reflections on identity, 2Fik fights prejudices and stereotypes by imaging his transformed appearance in multiple ways.

The boxes for the return into her home country are packed and stand around her bed since years. But will she ever know again, if it’s day or night, if she’s awake or asleep, if she’s breaking out or just running into a trap?