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In Charente, in Mansle, it's la frairie, the local festival. We attend the preparations and the celebration itself.

Jules is an outcast because he does not express himself like the others and his gestures are bizarre to say the least: he's had cerebral palsy from birth. But when you get to know him, you discover a magnificent man.

Memory is an attempt to reconstruct the functioning of the memory process and, in particular, the phenomenon of triggering a memory from elements perceived in the outside world. The lens of the camera corresponds to the gaze of a single subject - the one who records and then remembers. This translates into an alternation of "real" sequences and "faked" souvenir sequences.

An early experiment by Dominique Belloir and Rainer Verbizh on Marcel Dupouy's Movicolor synthesizer, from footage of waves recorded a few weeks earlier from the top of a rock on the pink granite coast in Brittany: "A small research unit had been installed by Marcel Dupouy, CNAV [...] I was responsible for receiving artists or directors interested in this new electronic image synthesizer. Jean-Luc Godard was one of the first visitors..." -Belloir

A look at Jordi Bonet as he executed the work on the famous mural at the Grand Théâtre de Québec.

A ritual, a silent and painful game for a moving sphinx and two servile martyrs. A three-headed and tormented monster loving itself confusedly through gaze, contemplation and firm observation. One single monster within three distinct and simultaneous incarnations.

This work belongs to the series Soldats soldés, which Miralda produced in Paris between 1965 and 1973 based on his experience in compulsory military service. The series began with drawings and collages, which gave rise to found objects covered with hundreds of toy soldiers, and continued with a series of public interventions in Paris featuring the reproduction in fibreglass of one of these life-size figures. The culmination of these actions was the Paris urban performance. La Cumparsita, produced in collaboration with Benet Rossell. The film shows the figure's journey through different locations in the city: its passage through the Place du Tertre, the Champs-Elysées, the Louvre, the demolished market of Les Halles, etc., which is intended to find a pedestal on which to stand.

A cinema encyclopedia. Yet another history of film.

An amateur documentary directed by Jean-Pierre Valladeau on the paths traveled by Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac, niece of Michel de Montaigne and founder of the Order of the Daughters of Notre Dame.

Narcisso Metal is a film for Narcissus, mirrors and windows where the look is the subject since it’s Narcissus’ toy. This isn’t without danger as we know. Truly speaking a self-portrait film: in most of the scenes, the director is filming himself through an automatic release mechanism or at a distance.

Discovery of the body in the state of matter which moves and takes shape. Two bodies thus evolve by confronting their own anatomical space. Their communication is based only on their bodily knowledge and meaning, thus ignoring the objectivity of the outside world. Reality being represented by the discovery of the different elements of matter. (CJC).

Filmed in Japan and Micronesia, Richard Gruetter's film “Light Journey” is a fine example of independent film making. It is a psychologically rich, deep blue memory world of flowers and small children. -Linda Gross, Los Angeles Times

Well, now the flesh is still intact: the black fleece and a white belly, the soft curve of the hips, narrow waist and pearly breasts that rise at the option of rapid breathing, in which the rhythm is still precipitating. You against her, one knee in the floor, you lean more. Head with long curly hair, which alone has preserved some freedom of movement, moves, struggles, the mouth of the girl opens and twists, while the flesh yields, the blood spurted on the tender skin, tense, the black eyes widen disproportionately, the mouth opens more, the head goes right and left, with violence, one last time, then more gently, at the end fall back and stop in the mass of black hair.

When you cannot afford a photo safari in Kenya, nothing like filming in Super 8 the habits and customs of Brittany.

Kim's first moving-image work, made between 1971 and 1973 with an 8mm movie camera.

This ensemble is made up of 5 short silent films, thrown onto the film like sketches. NB. The film is noted as "silent", but it is to be projected with sound. The sound is the characteristic noise of the optical sound track of a silent film in a 16mm projector.

A film commissioned between two municipal elections, St Leu, l’enjeu d’un quartier, tells the story of the neighborhood and what it means for its residents.

This experimental documentary, made in 1970, mixes the daily life of the inhabitants of Galicia (Spain), the visit to religious sites (Santiago de Compostela, Carnota, Meis) with the memories and emotions of the director.

In France, in the early seventies, contraception and abortion are forbidden. Rape is not considered as a very serious offense, and sometimes rapists are released by the court. Meanwhile, the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune and his association "Let them live" triumph in the media. In 1972, minors who had children start a strike in the special school where they lived. Very soon, the MLF supports them. This movie gives the floor to the victims of a society who tries to silence them. These outsiders defend themselves for the first time. A rare document.