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A César nominated short animated feature.

This film is a poem from Jean-Pierre Thiébaud, one of the workers participating in the Chris Marker-animated Groupe Medvedkine, and who took part in the 1967 Strike. It is a visual lyric, against war and capitalism, a call for emancipation.

A birthday party filmed frame by frame without editing.

It's Sunday, in a provincial town in France. Ismaël, a Turkish immigrant worker, walks through the streets which are gradually emptying, passing cafes and closed shops. He came without his family. He can only walk, alone. Meanwhile, in Turkey, young workers are waiting for the moment to go abroad.

A short film following a healer from Maramureș region, Romania.

A film about forestry workers in the Bercé forest.

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Experimental film by Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

A César nominated short documentary film.

The film Ligne + Spirale was co-directed with Elisabeth Strassle - it is a rising tracking shot with a continuous and regular 360° camera movement, all filtered through a pink gel. With no soundtrack, the viewing of the film is intended to produce an impression, a feeling, as if "entering somewhere", in the tradition of the films of Michael Snow.

A young actress rehearses on stage the play of her mental life. Where is the play, where is the reality? The character's real life and the baroque show seem intimately linked in the closed universe of a somewhat seedy theatre. On the advice of her director, Elisa ends up breaking her chains by accepting herself as she is. While she sings an opera, the walls of the theater disappear. Transported to the street, she continues her euphonious and optimistic number.

Painted in green and blue. Female Desiring Feminine..

For the residents of the Aleutian island of Akutan in Alaska, the seasonal and industrial king crab fishing industry coexists each summer with traditional activities. Young people work at various stages of the processing chain: from preserving the crabs to removing the shells and cooking them.

This 15-minute color short revolves around a truck driver who picks up a female hitchhiker; as they travel together, she leads him on a journey through his own inner fantasies, which are shaped and inspired by the iconic figures of Hollywood heroes

Marcel Marceau mime performance

"Il n'y a pas d'abonné au ..." mixes sensations, images and sounds while claiming to paint a picture of a possible history of cinema.

This feature-length Super 8 film, shot at 18 frames per second, was made by workers and student activists from Millau, a village at the foot of the Larzac plateau, who spent five years, week after week, filming the struggle of an entire region against the expansion of the Larzac military camp.

Sarah Maldoror finds inspiration in the hidden corners of Paris, where architecture was shaped by foreign styles and influences.

The passenger enjoys herself in a parade of trees, even risking taking root there. The passengers of a boat, swept by a loving gaze, appear in sequence from image to image.

There are two slippers, there is a mini cassette, and also my camera.

At a time when children are sleeping and visions are waking up, a little girl has fun with the images of adults.

The escape towards the other side of a setting which restores nothing.

Film expanded on three screens – So three films in parallel on a very large screen.

Focuses the dilated gaze on a vulva and its pulsations, in an obsessive and prolonged repetition, which, at the same time, abstracts and reifies.

A short film by Roger Beaurin.

Two traditional chord instruments are made and played by the Teda craftsmen of Tibesti, Chad.

The last expedition of Nemadi in Mauritania. Years of drought have drastically reduced the game in some areas of Africa. However a hunting expedition is organized by a group of Nemadi in the "Akle" area, on the initiative of Professor Gabus.

Divination and traditional justice among the Kabiyè of northern Togo. Recordings of several council sessions.

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The various technical phases in fishing for bonito ad tuna ; loking for live bait (young fish) under the coral reefs; intensive fishing on the banks (North Maldives); trolling (South Maldives).

Images "inspired" from music by Bernard Benoit

A tormented (but forbidden) history, a culture reduced to provincial folklore, economic difficulties, social conflicts, military and tourist vocations: such is the assessment that we have been able to make of this country. Luckily there were a few of them showing their anger.

Experimental film by Jean Dupuy.

The Yafar live in the province of western Sepik in Papua New Guinea, practicing an itinerant slash-and-burn agriculture. Here the inhabitants of the village make a new clearing in the forest.

A week in the life of Salamou, a young potter who lives in the village of Bakin Dabagui in Ader, Niger, where a terrible famine due to two years of intensive draught is rampant.