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A fantasy using hand movements, involuntary gestures, attitudes and habits. With the absence of words, these movements become choreographies. A musical passage alerts them and guides them like a punctuation, or carries them towards unexpected fictions. At times calm, curious, anxious or very nervous, a parrot appears among the various monologues and dialogues which form and come undone...
Pauline has a daydream inspired by Manet's paintings. The point of view of painting, and the question of the movement. Close-ups of Pauline, quiet, laughing or serious. Her voice in Paris, her accent, the music she listens to. The sounds of her house, and of her life being led. At a distance.
When the Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in December 1979, Christophe de Ponfilly and Jérôme Bony made their first clandestine reportage in the Panjshir valley. "A valley against an empire" testifies to the beginning of the struggle of a young commander, Amah Shah Massoud.
A documentary about the life and culture of the Hungarian Roma.
Here any movement is quickly evacuated to make way for something transgressive. The alternation is tumultuous.
Close-ups of lovers caressing and images of nearly motionless nude males are presented as a collage. A young man feverishly comments upon le mal d’amour by confronting desire and disappointment, including moments of his everyday life and moments which occur in a dream-like state. This results in an opposition between the primitive simplicity of sexuality and the complexity of love to which we traditionally associate it. This work focuses upon the omnipresence of sexuality and its inevitable changes and ramifications in long-term relationships.
During the course of drawing, in a classroom, a little boy gets carried away by his imagination.
In March 1977, six activists of the Movement for the Liberation of abortion and contraception (MLAC) were tried for the illegal practice of abortion. Around the trial, the film reveals the lives of this group of women proposing to appropriate medical knowledge associated with childbirth and abortion.
Three good friends give up everything, or almost everything, to open their restaurant. They're happy with the affair, but by spending all their time behind the stove, it's their love life that threatens to go up in smoke! The cloth is burning... Is it already the end of the beans or will they be able to cut the pear in two?
The escalator at the Centre Pompidou, envisioned as a metaphorical universe for the conquest of a contemporary grail in exploded colors.
Short film by Anne-Marie Sirois.
There are four of them, they were enthusiastic about the idea of diverting images from salvage films - each one worked on different sequences; the whole put end to end gives a film full of graphic richness, freshness and humor.
He's dead. Dead? Really? My baby is dead... maybe !
In this report on an annual conference known as RIFEN, Black women from around the world gather to discuss points of common interest and need, including community leadership and shared experiences of migration and transplantation.
Experimental film in the now submerged valley with Catherine Ferlandin and Corinne Lépine. Lake Guerlédan dry.
An engineer is sitting at his desk designing a computer-generated logo providing a printed circuit board made with the BNP effigy, a sign of modern times.
A flash, the time of a lightning, of a tremor where everything happens inside the crack, the breach which widens... An allegory on the elusive nature of the light phenomenon.
For the documentary series Les Ascensions Célèbres, Denis Ducroz has created this historical reconstruction of the first ascent of the Meije, exploring etymology, physical geography, and the history of the emergence of mountaineering in the Oisans massif. The first ascent of the Grand Pic was made on August 16, 1877, by Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau with Pierre Gaspard and son; the rope party moved along the Promontoire ridge on the south face to the Glacier Carré, where Jean-Baptiste Rodier, the second porter, separated from the three climbers who managed to overcome ice and granite to open the famous "normal route" to the summit.
Let us travel back to the 15th century and imagine the interior of the workshop of the painter Jan van Eyck: a porter delivers a wooden panel, one assistant grinds pigments, another mixes them with linseed oil, and a third arranges them on palettes. It is in this environment that Jan van Eyck was able to paint The Virgin and Child with Chancellor Rolin, a small-scale work depicting the Virgin Mary seated on a blue cushion embroidered with gold, holding the Christ Child on her lap, facing a man in his sixties who clasps his hands in prayer.
Short film by Guy Selva.
Road traffic was intense at this location. Sometimes the roar of the engines declined in the distance, but never for very long and the passage of the new line of cars and coaches was accompanied by large air displacements, which hit the eardrums hard.
Dégringolade (TUMBLE) - was produced in the pixilation technique. This process allows alive characters and real objects to achieve absolutely unrealizable movements in reality. Everything becomes possible with the stop motion technique. This film shows an imaginary and frenetic world where it slides, runs, falls, flies, jumps, fidgets, leaps, rolls, bolts, and boozes; it is a wild weird world.
A drawing teacher instructs 10 and 15-year-olds to create a Picasso portrait, revealing the surprising juxtaposition of the resulting drawings and the comments from the young artists.
The Senegalese man of the film’s title is Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, who is remembered by his neighbors in Normandy.
A child with albinism is often regarded in traditional societies as a curse on their family. Salif Keita, born from a noble lineage of Mali, lived in exclusion during his childhood. It is music that saved him. This film portrays Salif Keita, the man and musician. We follow him with his family, in the places of his childhood and during his concerts in Mali and in France.
Computer animated short from the perspective of a mouse.
Commissioned by French TV, Yorktown covers the bicentennial commemoration of the Siege of Yorktown, near the end of the American Revolutionary War, where the Americans and their French allies defeated the English. The festivities celebrating Franco-American friendship give Ophüls some amusement, as he takes a gleefully ironic look at the formally “friendly” meeting between Mitterand and Reagan, or exposes the absurdity of patriotic folklore.
A beautiful photographic quality characterised Maziere’s Swimmer which used freeze frame and repeat shots of a swimmer in what could only be the Mediterranean Sea and light. With a fractured ‘found’ soundtrack, what it lacked in depth (and this may be due to its ‘series’ nature) it made up in its surface tension.
The film takes up the myth of Orpheus descending into hell to find Eurydice .
Three cards in hand, gold on the table—we are in the middle of a game of prime, a precursor to poker. Eight gold coins lie before the female player, about a dozen before the young man: the stakes are very high. This painting depicts three card players and a servant; their mouths are closed, their gestures and gazes suspended. The cheat looks directly at the viewer, an ace of diamonds hidden in his belt—his face alone is fully illuminated. His diamond cards suggest money and sexual commerce, while those of his opponent, spades, evoke misfortune and a struggle against fate. In La Tour’s time, several edicts were issued against dice cheats and swindlers. This painting, like The Fortune Teller, illustrates a saying common at the time: “Love, wine, and gambling have ruined more than one man.”
Film playing with car headlights on a rainy evening, reflections of the moon in a puddle, all intermittently covered with a sinuous or more rectilinear, thin or thicker bleach graphic (on Kodachrome).
An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.
Mailman Zazar has trouble delivering mail.
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 little pen stroke for Fred Astaire.
A small village of natives, somewhere in the West Indies, with its ancestral traditions, its hints of superstitions and its beliefs in bewitchments, in an environment of fishermen and cane cutters, with its old sorcerer who says he has the power of life and death.
"The little dancer followed the music..."
Forever the mirror stage.
Research of cinematographic adequacy with the plastic and technological work of the artist Piotr Kowalski. Document on the setting up of the "Time Machine" exhibition at the Center Georges Pompidou (1981/82).