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A worker daydreams while in the bathroom

Poverty and misery are rife in Gourga, a village in the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: stay and await international assistance or leave for more fertile regions in the country.

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of Breton autonomy, René Vautier was a committed filmmaker, author of an anti-colonialist work in which he denounces the repression, torture and racism. In 1983, René Vautier discovered, by the light of a flashlight, his films cut up and scattered at Fort du Conquet. Police also came to check the damage.

Raphaël de Valentin is a tormented, hopeless and penniless young aristocrat. An old antique dealer gives him a sorrowful skin that has the power to grant all the wishes of its owner. But he warns him: with each wish granted, the size of the skin will shrink.

A Hungarian filmmaker investigates the traces Orson Welles left behind in Hollywood, maintaining the ambiguity between truth and fiction. Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe had long hoped to dedicate an issue of their longstanding documentary series, "Cinéastes de notre temps" to Orson Welles. But the master director-actor died in 1985, and Labarthe was left with a considerable challenge: making a film about Welles, without Welles.

A conference given by Gilles Deleuze on the act of creation, taped on video.

Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Short film by Anne-Marie Sirois.

The adventures of Melies called super-eight because he is the greatest cursed cineaste and Absynthe, the crazy one, the strada of the breweries. They will meet Garniks who looks for God in the sewers and Carcasse, an anarchist touched by the bottle syndrome. It is also the initiatory journey that Absynthe, the mute, makes, of the lost word, thanks to three men.

Two girls go to Berlin, one to find a German girl who lived at home in the 50s when her parents divorced, the other to look for a role in German cinema.

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South America.

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.

In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary filmmaker, the film details the stages of making handicrafts from garbage dumped at landfills.

A group of friends—Julien, Sophie, Gaspard, Caroline, and Victor—are planning a major mountaineering trip to climb the Tibetan peaks in July, under the supervision of their friend Sébastien, a medical student. Shortly before their departure, Sébastien breaks his leg and has to give up a summer job as an instructor at a thalassotherapy center in Le Touquet, which was meant to finance his studies. Victor then offers to replace him, and the others decide to go to Tibet anyway.

A César award winning documentary with Dominique Théron taking a look back at the work of his accomplished painter father Pierre.

The Mer de Glace in Chamonix, November 86: every summer the meltwater that runs on the surface of the glacier flows into a huge crevasse called "a mill". In 1897, Joseph VALLOT had explored it to a depth of 60m, a lake had prevented him from going any further. Since then no one had descended into this well. In the fall, a multidisciplinary team made up of mountaineers including Jean Marc BOIVIN, speleologists and scientists descending into the crevasse... Superb images and live comments in a temperature of 0° and a humidity of 100%. The team reached 110m deep under the ice, a world first in glacier exploration. Jean marc BOIVIN seems delighted with his first speleological exploration. With the participation of Serge AVIOTTE, Jean Michel ASSELIN, Jean Marc BOIVIN, Janot LAMBERTON, Pierrot PILLET, Louis REYNAUD, Jean Luc RIGAUD and Denis TERMIER.

If, one evening, a village drinker abuses of schnapps to the point of risking a heart attack, the traditional remedy is to bury him up to his neck in manure and leave him there until morning. The organic heat causes an intense elimination of sweat, and the ammonia brings the patient back to consciousness. The "where am I" that follows and the short-circuiting, in the ethylic haze, of the dazzle of the first sun on the snow and the disgust of finding oneself in manure: this is the crucial moment of the borderline experience portrayed in the film. Death and resurrection, steeped not in mystery but in elementary chemistry, which, through its excess, opens the mind to the terrible presence of reality. A tribute to the strong primal character of the Alsatian in his stubborn resistance to all worldly things, and his fierce anchoring to the world.

This film is made from the soundtrack of the multimedia installation/environment Mystère I: Sleeping Hermaphrodite that we created for the XII Biennale de Paris in 1982. The idea of ​​creating a second work, purely cinematographic this time - here, from the same soundtrack, seemed particularly stimulating since it poses in depth the question of the complex relationships between sound and image in a non-narrative context. MK - KT, 1985

Flowers in compression and expansion, blurry and clear, ballet of flowers around which we turn, flowers in final bouquet. A choreography of these fascinating messengers of love.

Dressed as a virgin mother, Michel Journiac tears down his garment and reveals a rag doll tied to his belly. He frees it carefully, presses it against his heart and caresses it gently, then he smears it with blood and stuffs it with raw meat dripping with blood. Finally, he wraps it slowly in a white shroud, he buries it, then collapses to the ground, overcome by grief. This action took place without an audience and was prepared with a screenplay.

The event and its (on) taken on the live. The marriage of Sandra and Thierry, surrounded by their friends. Direct cinema, without retouching.

A short by Agnés Varda that includes excerpts from an interview on the France Culture radio show “La nuit sur un plateau,” hosted by Alain Veinstein, with Varda and with writer Nathalie Sarraute, whose writings inspired Varda's film 'Sans toi ni loi' (Vagabond) and to whom Varda dedicated that film.

In total solitude, surrounded by a rugged landscape and inaccecibles cliffs, lies the mansion Vanbeck. One day, Vanbeck decide to hire a governess, Emmanuelle. This, from the beginning, note a rare family atmosphere and sometimes, it is impossible to sleep believing feel footsteps at night, in the old part of the house where the room of Ms. located. Vanbeck, which it is very ill and never leaves the room.

The real is consumed and goes up in smoke. All that's left is an elusive shape, endlessly transforming. The frame limits its ascent to the top, depriving us of its disappearance in the air.

A Feature film by Mohamed Benayat.

The intermission.

Brazilian singer Mônica Passos on stage in Paris. In her small apartment she prepares a meal. In the studio she records the song "Itaipu". She speaks of her rebellion against the power plant, that harms nature. In a park, he sings "Itaipu". His powerful voice reproduces bird sounds. She throws stones into the water, creating a visual analogy with sound waves. With her guitarist husband she walks, playfully, away from the camera.

"Optical printing links East with West within a mosaic of looped, layered and shifting images filmed originally on Super 8 while on a (train/car/thumb) trip across Europe in 1978. Swinging cow udders, woman sweeping, farm woman walking, nuns chanting, Nude Descending, voices in a bread shop, Dachau and other artworks from Documenta 7, riding the escalator of the Centre Pompidou, etc. are layered in overlapping, shifting, and repetitive frame-clusters pulled from Super 8 footage filmed on a trip that began in Bucharest and ended in Paris. Disparate elements are combined and manipulated to construct a lyrical work about walking, history, and memory." - Holly Fisher

Sarah Maldoror reports on Christiane Diop, editor of the publishing house Présence africaine, which includes an interview with illustrator Sophie Mondesir, about her work as the first black woman to run a major publishing house in Paris.

Paul, a mad but innocent scientist, is asked to design the next ultra-lethal bomb. As his girlfriend has just called it quits, a dog starts to follow Paul around. Paul eventually adopts him, and discovers thanks to him the real meaning of life.

In 1989, this film was part of the PAMEZ project in Senegal which was part of the sea program of the CCFD, Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development. It presents the economic and social role of women in the Casamance region for the development of fishing. These women who process and market fish, who are responsible for management, have a voice and express their opinion.

Jazz legend Archie Shepp toplines this unique and informative documentary. It intercuts performance footage of Shepp with interviews where he speaks candidly about such topics as Jazz's African origins, the genre's "revolutionary" purpose, and the social isolation of African Americans today.

"Nancy, Hôtel de Guise, November 25th, 1983." A young woman enters the establishment after a long day's work. She hopes to watch a film on television, but the set is broken. Nothing out of the ordinary happens — an uneventful evening. The young woman meets a quiet young man.

Documentary film about the camps in the south of France, in which Spanish civil war refugees and the volunteers of the "international brigades", non-sedentary people and Alsatian and foreign Jews were interned from 1939 onwards. Under the Vichy regime, the camps were used to intern other criminalized population groups and French Jews, who were also deported from there to extermination camps. In a mosaic of artificially framed shots, formerly interned contemporary witnesses describe their own life stories. Director Mangiante not only sheds light on the history of the camps, but also the mechanisms of personal memory.

Third part of an experimental television program led by Grandrieux questionning TV flux aesthetic, this film focuses on a single interview with Jean-Louis Schefer who delivers his hypothesis on man-made images of itself.

Paysage Natal is a confrontation between a film-maker and the country where he was born. It is also a way of recording with the camera as much information (psychological / emotional) on places once familiar, without contracting a "diary".

Parents are not easy this year. That's what 16-year-old Marie realized when she saw the mess her father, a general practitioner, and her mother were in. But Marie is more interested in dancing. The arrival of Laurent, a young student, will reveal her passion for choreography and, as a result, awaken the unconscious but tenacious love she has for Paul, her childhood friend.