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First sketch of a new work featuring the movement of objects and devices. From one screen to another, without changing platforms, we change trains or boats. Zazie is no longer on the subway.

A pyromaniac troubles the quietness of Boneuil, a small French village. The mayor decides to hire a team of young benevolent firemen, unfortunately more interested about chasing girl than putting fires out.

Margo Jefferson, a journalism lecturer in New York, and Ti-Gracen Atkinson, a writer and feminist theoretician, talk to Flo Kennedy, a Black American lawyer, about racism, minorities' rights and the E.R.A. (constitutional amendment to garantee women's rights).

A single plan and its inverted double: a portion of the Avenue de l'Opera, cut out in the city where "the zoom gliding over this space, rather in a deserted space, which anticipates or participates in a disaster. "(Claudine Eizykman in Erres, No. 5, Toulouse, 1978).

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

An avant-garde short film.

A man is giving an interview with the help of an interpreter. But everyone is speaking French, and the translation only serves to say... something else.

Reel 29 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

In the nineteenth century, in St. Petersburg. Poprichtchine, a small official living almost in misery, decides not to go to the office. Coming from a noble family, he can not stand his condition anymore.

Combining documentary footage and performance clips, the film traces the origins of Plume Latraverse's career and reveals, through his musicians, some of his hidden aspects. Filmed during the musician's show presented as part of Québec mer et monde 84. "With a look, a glance, a roar, Plume gives himself to the camera. Whole as Haddock, our Captain Harrock'n'Roll finally opens up." (Franco, Nuovo, 1985)

In a small fishing village in the West Indies, the children believe they see, in a strange cabin located on the way to the school, a devil.

A César award nominated short feature.

An experiment transposing a painting by the artist Jacqueline Bosson into film. A particularly delicate exercise which consists of preserving the quality of both the colors and the range of blacks and whites, of directing the gaze to a single part of an ensemble predefined by one of the many factors involved in “making visible”, without turning away from the the fact that one’s attention is liberated from the noises and distractions of the gallery, of the museum, of the world… — different and similar from those the screening room — an inevitability of light.

A man films himself in bed in the morning, as soon as he is awakened by the lamps illuminating him (1800 Watts) and by the radio (tuned to France Culture), programmed for this purpose. He declares, microphone in hand, that he will go to bed early that evening because he is tired and "this can't go on any longer."

Evokes the life of 3rd century hermit Saint Antoine via the paintings of Bosch, Rops, Ensor, Ernst & Dalí.

Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was 12 years old, hiding as a Jew during the German occupation, he could not leave a tiny apartment. He tells and he plays alone all the characters in his drama. He invents, deforms, imagines another end. He is at the same time the author, the narrator and the actor (the actors). Did he really experience what he's talking about, or did all that happen in his head? Are we facing a testimony or a delusion?

On April 24th, 1982, when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from François Mitterand, a lively filmed interview took place inside the French Cinémathèque.

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.

A robot sets off onto the road sitting in an invisible car. Along the way, to protect his engine's pistons hidden in his stomach, he drinks some Restore engine lubricant.

A César award nominated short feature.

MOSAÏC is a collage film using a Super 8 roll that was probably exposed manually, with pretty much failed results, which I reused as a base for collage. To do this, I unspooled the whole roll in order to have a rectangular working base, onto which I applied Super 8 emulsion from another film, in a crosswise fashion, going from strip to strip diagonally and horizontally. The visual effect is totally abstract and resembles a mosaic, with its many little triangular forms.

A portrait of the Copts, the oldest Christian community in Egypt, of its links to ancient Egypt and, in the face of rising Islamic fundamentalism, its traditions and way of confronting this growing threat to its existence.

An enthusiastic grandfather sits with children in a Parisian park talking about pigeons. First. their physical appearance—eye, wings and tail, and color—and their varieties. Then, he encourages the children to imitate their walk. He points out courtship and mating rituals, then provides an illustrated discussion of how they eat. This section is punctuated by a flock of pigeons fighting over a small, hard ball each wants to eat; the narrator's describes it as if it were a soccer match. He concludes with a discussion of pigeons taking off, landing, and flying; he uses slow motion and stop-time photography to show his audience.

An interview with Joris Ivens

Tells the story of Sara, a girl of Greek descent, who lives in a small village on the French Atlantic coast and dreams of traveling to the country of her ancestors. It tells the story of her love for Simon, a young theater manager in Paris.

Nicolas is a young man just released from jail. He spends his first day of freedom watching and hesitating, in a community care centre, in a hotel room. Loneliness.

America is a legend, an idea. To rediscover the traces of such an idea within the reality of a city requires a transformation of this very city into ideas and legends, to the point that life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, that which can be communicated, and that which cannot,high and low are open to a contradictory understanding. Film made between 1981 and 1985.

Juillet is a young orphan girl who returns to the town she was born in to find her mother. She tries to befriend her yuppie neighbors Marie and Jacques with comic consequences. The thrilling part (supposedly) of the film finds Marbas as a timid psycho killer who targets pretty young women.

Paris, August 16. Injured, Marie and Serge manage to escape their failed bank robbery. In an empty city, the lovers opt to hide out separately while the police are still looking for them. To keep in touch, they have special drop-offs for postcards that encode their next meeting place using classical poetry. As the police close in, family concerns intrude on the two wanted suspects.

A short film explores the fantasy and taboos of a young girl's thoughts in the context of routine everyday family life.

Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René Depestre.

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

A businessman on vacation comes to file a complaint for murder. He claims to have discovered the body of a young woman who had been stabbed in his hotel. But the police commissioner who receives him has his own unique investigative methods.

Reel 25 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

"...the main thing, both during filming and during editing, was not to pay attention, simply to wait to be surprised by a detail and let myself be carried away to another visualization in a dance-like movement."

A question of identity? First of all what they claim: their city, their Kabylie, their 20 years. Young people from immigrant backgrounds, Farid, Naguib and Abdel Ouab Taalba claim all the more clearly their desire to be young: to be themselves. At the time when they may be summoned to declare their identity, they say let us our questions. Their place? It's a diary of immigrant youth, a boxing gym, a faculty, but also the suburban commute, the trip to Kabylia. The shooting of the film? It was during six months, the young people and the filmmaker, alone with the image and the sound. The time for questions to arise.

A wedding ceremony, a reception in an inn, and the first waltz for the newlyweds. Next to a river, a different group appears.

An unusual play on television images.