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Fourth part of a French TV series about the creation and building of the town of Cergy-Pontoise.

Monique (an advertising assistant) and Christine (a semi-skilled worker) talk about how difficult it is for a woman working in a struggling factory (Lip), about issues of internal democracy within the trade union and the end of work in the current situation.

A condensation of my philosophy master that I had written between 1974 and 1975. My first film as text.

On the Champs-Élysées, between the shop windows, the cars, the passers-by, various characters cross paths. An old lady in a Rolls-Royce, a young house painter, a young couple.

A realistic fiction. Characters: Laure Trouchet, Pierre Merejkowsky. They play their own roles. He, she. They talk about the community life. In one sequence shot they blame each other about politic and emotional failures.

Experimental short film from Robert de Laroche.

The "Lyon Premier 8000-Gasherbrum II 8035m" expedition, organized and led by Jean-Pierre Frésafond in 1975, was sponsored by the Lyon section of the Club Alpin Français and by Louis Pradel, Mayor of Lyon. The film traces the departure from Lyon of Berliet heavy trucks loaded with equipment, daily life in Pakistan, preparation for the expedition and the approach march with the porters, daily life at the base camp and in the camps. altitude of the members of the expedition: L. Audoubert, Marc Batard, F. Bourbousson, A. Chariglione, J. Dupraz, J.J. Forrat, H. and JP. Frésafond, B. Macho, Doctor A. Raymond, Y. Seigneur, J. Soubis, F. Valençot, B. Villaret de Chauvignypuis. Finally On June 18, 1975, Yannick Seigneur and Marc Batard reached the summit by opening a route along the south ridge. Bernard Villaret de Chauvigny, who was killed during the second assault, was the first victim of the Gasherbrum.

Film by Georges Ray.

After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.

Unpacking a drawer, with its heterogeneous contents, of a secretary in an office, relentless repetition of the words "My name is Didier Ozil" illustrated by the images on the wall of his apartment, tailing consumers on a Saturday afternoon in the streets of Lyon, and the overflowing of garbage cans on the sidewalks of the city center.

A César nominated short documentary film investigating this volcanic eruption, what caused it and just how high the debris went up into the sky.

To come back to abstraction, I have a feeling that colour varies in my work between two aspects: the colour-object that comes from the sensation of an object, in this case the film strip, and the opening. This colour-object permits the transporting of objects into space, to explore the space of the screen in the theatre; this is what allowed me to develop Liminal Minimal (1977) by enlarging the space of projection with two projectors and, taking into account that the vertical strips evolve on a black background comparable to the darkness of the theatre, I was able explore the whole space of the projection with the coloured strip

Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco and Mauritania, two states that have signed an agreement to share the territory.

A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.

The death of Claude François shook France and his many fans. This report meets the singer's fans at his funeral, but also André Torrent, Michel Drucker, Guy Lux, and Bruno Coquatrix, as well as employees of Podium magazine, including Myriam Zéhar, one of his collaborators and a die-hard fan who lived only for Claude.

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.

A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.

Tout feu, tout femme tells how Isabelle, a nursery instructor and, above all, a student in Psychology, does everything to cure François, a firefighter by profession, of his unhealthy fear of women. How does she go about it? ... Why not surround her with pretty girls to divide her fear? His plans are so successful that ...

How do souls travel to the afterlife ? What should the ferryman do ? Morgane, the water fairy, knows this (according to Per Jakez Hélias).

Two students, one of whom is still a virgin, spend a few days on vacation in the castle of the aunt of one of them.

Short film by Robert Filliou.

Thanks to the complicity of his friend Laura, Jo, sentenced to 20 years in prison, escapes from the central prison. Hiding in an old disused mill, Jo sends his young friend to a certain Freddy, gangster and nightclub owner in Pigalle, who owes his freedom to Jo's silence. But Freddy sends two of his henchmen to the mill where Jo is hiding, to kill her.

Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public.

The female universe through four female characters: a child, a prostitute who never appears, me and the other, the other and me. Inside. The texts: invasion of the female exterior.

A failed actress sinks into neurosis and mythomania. To give relief to her dismal existence, she engages in all kinds of activities ranging from false testimony to occasional prostitution.

What were the young people doing during this beautiful summer of 1972? A survey takes us to the side of the working world and its summer topography: Stella-Plage in Pas de Calais for the lucky ones or Aubigny au Bac, near Cambrai, for others... Film very post-soixante-huitard, Congés Payés is also a documentary on a certain way of making activist films. Despite the inherent flaws of this particular genre, in addition to its content, the film had been noticed by ISKRA Films for its aesthetic concerns and its research at the level of writing.

Shades of Silk is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and something much more fulfilling but frightening and vague in their relationship. A large part of the action takes place in the Shanghai of 1935 although the film was shot entirely on location in Paris.

There comes a time in every young athlete's life when he or she must weigh the value of training against the isolation from the activities of other youths. In this French movie, Sonia Petrova plays a young ballerina pondering this question. Her teacher is incredibly strict and stern, and the regimen she requires is all-encompassing. She explores the alternatives through the help of a hip young male student of modern dance, with whom she has a brief affair, but decides to continue with her classical training.

A short film about two mothers from Niger and how they care for their children.

A drama between two marionettes slowly develops.

The chronicle of a few bourgeois families spending their summer holidays in a small town on the Atlantic coast. Beach, games, bored children, couples who invite each other, who go out, who bear the brunt of temptations, weariness, the banality of everyday life, even on vacation.

Venturi was once the king of the Pigalle underworld. Today, he lives in retirement with his wife, in an estate near Chantilly. He still receives the takings from a few hôtels de passe and cabarets, enabling him to subsist without financial worries. But a gang of young hoodlums follows in his footsteps, committing robberies and picking fights in the establishments controlled by Venturi. His faithful companion Cristiani is murdered, as is his wife Germaine. Venturi is determined to take revenge.

A loose series of encounters brings together French and Swedish men and women exploring sexual freedom across apartments, country houses, and holiday settings. Any hints of character or conflict quickly dissolve into episodic group situations, with the film favouring atmosphere and fantasy over narrative resolution.

A film about German painter Max Ernst made by Gérard Patris.