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Third part of a French TV series about town-planning in which Éric Rohmer and Jean-Paul Pigeat look into the l'Arlequin neighbourhood of Grenoble-Échirolles and the new town of Évry.

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

The dream of a man from the East confronted with the realities of the West.

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

A naked man disappears into the light.

On the sidelines of history, some characters, often ignored of the greater public have, in the shadows, had a decisive weight on the most important events of our century. We are presenting you there «unknows». A two-part documentary, which is a two-and-a-half-hour interview with Léon Degrelle himself, was produced for FR3 in 1978 by Jean-Michel Charlier, as part of the series "LES DOSSIERS NOIRS" (The Obscure Records).The first part, "LÉON DEGRELLE: CHEF DE 'REX'" and the second part, "LE 'VOLKSFÜHRER' LÉON DEGRELLE".

The unusual adventure of a teacher (in May 68, she organised childcare during the occupation of the Sorbonne) turned farmer in Dordogne in order to offer city children “green classes”, which would give them real contact with country life rather than the fictional country of school books.

Grigny-La Grande Borne, a large housing project south of Paris, the miserable condition of the buildings in the large city.

First film about the University of Vincennes Paris VIII. After May 68, anyone could come to take classes there, without a baccalaureate or diploma. This film does not aim to take stock of the activities of Vincennes, nor to justify Vincennes, but rather to be a document on the political significance of Vincennes and the University in general.

A big woman an a little superman are engaged in an erotic play.

For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions.

This film explores everyday lives of a small group of middle-class women who meet frequently (if not daily) by the tennis courts and in the beauty parlor. The film revels in their intrigues and difficulties, and the way they meet the challenges of day-to-day life.

"In this work in progress, which will never be completed, even though he has screened it in public several times, the filmmaker discusses with the writer France Huser the difficulty of filming / women / of letters / and of making a frontal portrait, which will inevitably have to be reworked." - Gisèle Rapp-Meichler

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that perhaps he has assimilated too much white culture.

Short film about a man dressing up as a cowboy.

Discrepant, chiseled and sly. Lettrism serving the aesthetic subversion.

The myth of Atlantis has only one source: Plato. He described, some 2,500 years ago, a country overflowing with wealth, located beyond the Pillars of Hercules, whose capital would have been destroyed by an earthquake, then engulfed in the depths of the sea. Following a miraculous aerial photo, Commander Cousteau finds himself on the trail of the lost civilization of the legend of Atlantis. Near the island of Dia, the team makes an extraordinary discovery…

Claudine Eizykman repeats a few images - a woman on a stairway, the courtyard on an apartment building, a man at a desk - with variations, including superimposition. Sometimes the images appear in an abstracted version of color negative film, a mix of pale pinks and blacks, but more often her colors are relatively natural. Her superimpositions do not take the form of multiple exposures like Lebrat's, in which the light of each layer adds to the others and overall the image grow brighter. Instead she runs her film through the last so that dark areas in another : light is lost rather than gained.

Feature film made in 8 days, the idea being to follow the winding path of the life of an artist-producer from Montmartre to La Rochelle, thinking through La Dordogne and La Vendée.By skilfully mixing the professional sphere and intimacy. By showing the present moment but also projecting into fiction.

March 1977. Just before the municipal elections, the people of Aulnay-sous-Bois, France share their expectations regarding the town, housing, urban planning and the start of deindustrialization in the suburbs.

The clinic was founded by Jean Oury, a psychiatrist who previously worked in experimental therapy at Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital. The psychiatric practice borrowed the idea of Hermann Simon that it is necessary to look after the establishment and to look after each patient, while returning initiative and responsibility to them by developing situations in which they can work and express their creativity. Since the mid-50s Félix Guattari has worked at La Borde, developing its practice and organization and producing alongside Oury a body of theoretical work on the practice and theory of schizoanalysis, set in practice at La Borde, and included in his 1972 collaboration with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Œdipus. Among the many aspects of La Borde is the annual summer tradition in which the "boarders" and staff work together to perform a play.

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

The forest is burning. By man's fault. "Accused, look at your harvest of ashes" ; this simple sentence sums up the film.

Traditional cider making in the small breton town of Saint-Gonlay in 1976. The traditional song called "Son ar sistr" whose words in Breton were written in 1929 by two Morbihan teenagers Jean Bernard and Jean-Marie Prima, is used as a leitmotiv.

Portrait of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas with excerpts from the following programs or films: "Grande Nuit de l'Opéra 1958", "Trois Jours avec Maria Callas", "L'invité du Dimanche", and "Médée" (1969) by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Three portraits, in relation to the Punk spirit, of Didier Ozil dressed in black, aggressive air, Gabriel Pouget, expressive in his passivity, Stéphane Varinard, puts charcoal on his face to disappear. Superimposed on the faces, the group Marie and the boys, the play of lights inside the Le Palace club in Paris and a country cemetery.

The fist movie of the series "Sensitométrie" is an animated film. Animation techniques offers incredible possibilities of de-structuring an image. Even in classical animated films, there is no pre-existing "real". One must reconstruct something based on the study of forms and movements.

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, Tha Accursed Kings begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar. The succession of monarchs that follows leads France and England to the Hundred Years' War.

A young Antillean couple relocates to metropolitan France, confronting everyday racism and straining to preserve their identity. As they settle into an unwelcoming environment, they wrestle with alienation, belonging, and the trauma of cultural displacement.

A tampon collector shows us his collection.

Popular comedy on traditional society and pamphlet against maraboutism. Two stories follow each other: a young typist is raped by a marabout who will not be worried, while a young man, opposed to the laxity of the brotherhoods of the administration, resists multiple solicitudes.

When children are born, they cry. No, they are screaming. For what ? Would birth be as scary and terrifying for the child as giving birth was for the mother? This film answers. He says: yes, coming into the world is a torture, a terror for the child. But this film also says what must be done to transform this "arrival" so that a great shadow no longer comes to darken all the life that follows.

In 1971 Thierry Zéno creates a fascinating portrait of artist Georges Moinet in the form of a 16 mm medium-length film. A schizophrenic who lives in a psychiatric hospital near Namur, Moinet paints. After being mute for 24 years he chooses this cinematic encounter to explain his artist approach, revealing what lies behind his personal cosmogony. But this long logorrhoea proves disturbing and fails to provide possible clues to understanding his work, gradually becoming a form of music that blends in with the sounds and distant, invisible hubbub of the hospital. With Alessandro Ussai behind the camera and Roger Cambier responsible for the sound, Zéno gets up close to Moinet to better capture him in all his demiurgical excessiveness, his existence on the fringes but also his humanity, deconstructing in a series of very tight shots the man and his canvasses.

A tale, told by his five daughters, of the life and death of a man very representative of a Protestant Switzerland in the early 20th century where life was conditioned by the work ethic. He was first a farmer, then a factory worker, then the head of a small family affair where his daughters became his workers. The business grew into an large factory that would be eventually taken over by the only son. The five stories show us the family and professional context of the first half of the 20th century. They are also five different versions of the serene death of a man who felt he had done his duty. The film illustrates the ideas of Max Weber, known for their importance in understanding the Western civilization that emerged from the Reformation.

The sinking of the oil tanker "Olympic Bravery". The problem of regulation is posed.

A little boy wants to be part of a group of friends who imposes tests before accepting it . Then the band begins to monitor an old man that children take for a spy .

Round table on the teaching of secondary school.