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A scientific trip that is both rigorous and licentious! This disturbing exploration of our "states" shows by example what our emotions owe to the chemistry of the body ... Where have scientific studies of sexuality gotten to? We already knew that seduction is a game that defies all verbal representation. In this area, it is the body that expresses itself above all. However, it is difficult to admit that hormonal secretions play a role in the phenomenon of love at first sight! Psychiatrists, ethologists and biochemists analyze here the intricate relations of amorous feelings and chemical changes in the body. Two hundred and fifty substances come into play at different stages of the process! A clear teaching approach, illustrated, without false modesty, by a couple. From waiting to meet, from desire to weariness.

"This film is close to End Memory. Under the shock of a recent break-up I built a film with similar elements: a day of nostalgia in the countryside, the picking of blackberries, the meal, having fun with friends, at the edge of the pond, the sunset, the memory of a moment when everything was fine. It's also my only film since End Memory with my own music." (PC)

It is the story of Jesus (not God's son, just a guy who gets excluded by others for questioning the world) and The Vagabond (his companion who, like him, thinks differently). They first hit the road in each other's company but are soon joined by other uprooted creatures, the Intruder, the Indian, the Prostitute, The Artist and the Crazy Girl, all of the them on the loose, all of them in pursuit of the absolute...

This film was made without a camera, using the primitive technique of pinhole photography. The film is all about light, the absence of light, and the development over time of these fundamental elements of cinema. The simple succession of these two states creates an Energetics of Movement that replaces the traditional scheme of narration and representation.

Here is the definitive study of Stanislavsky on film: a retracing of his life and work against the tumultuous backdrop of a Russia which variously censored, spied on, adulated, and co-opted him, using hitherto unknown footage. The program shows how one great creative artist interacted with other giants of his era, from Lenin to Stalin, Meyerhold to Mayakovsky, Isadora Duncan to Stella Adler—and includes, in addition to the Chekhov plays, scenes from his productions of Ibsen, Gogol, Hamlet with Gordon Craig as codirector, and Molière’s Le Malade Imaginaire with Stanislavsky as Argan, among many others.

A very serious instructional piece about Father Kneipp's turn of century research on water therapies. With the help of cold water and a trained professional, you could be cured of all your illnesses!

A couple and their two year old daughter live for several months in the far North.

Michel Sénéchal gave up fishing to please his wife Yvonne. Gone are the trawlers and the waters of Newfoundland. Hello to the Duclair ferry, of which he is commander. One evening, while he is cheating his boredom with a bottle of rum in the streets of the city, he is challenged by the advertisement of a traveling circus that invites you to discover "the mermaid Elsa, the one, the only, the true.

Tunisian-born Myriam, a Sephardic beauty, lives in Montreal. Théo, her grad-student boyfriend, breaks up with her, and she's desolate. She house-sits for a friend for several weeks: during that time, her father arrives looking for her after 20 years, Théo realizes he misses her, and she meets the quirky Lou, a poetry-spouting squatter who introduces himself by clipping a lock of her hair during a movie; he later breaks into her flat to chat with her. She's angry with her father, confused by Théo, and delighted with Lou, whose free spirit and undemanding attention inspire her. Working out her feelings about her father gives her to key to decide what to do next.

When his grandmother dies, Petit Bus goes to Pornic to find his mother.

The child points to the Secret. For what do we see? A blindfolded Renaissance figure of the In Between (in between the sexes, in between the worlds). The well suggests the Underground (Water). The crypt as well (Earth). Underground matrix. La Puerta del Angel: a meditation space. M. K. - K. T. Madrid 1992

As he gradually turns mad, the dancer Nijinsky evokes the important episodes of his life. In costumes and sets of lush beauty, the divine puppet performs in a final show where the secondary characters are named: Diaghilev, Isadora Duncan, Stravinsky, Auguste Rodin, Léon Bakst.

They tell us about the childhood that is going away, about the city that scares us and that makes us envious. They talk about good and evil, religion and school results. They are in fifth grade and live the age when one is born into the world. Denis Gheerbrant was able to capture, to arouse the word, between childhood and adolescence, between life in the neighborhood, at home and at school. Filmed in Gennevilliers, in an environment known to be difficult, the film holds up a mirror to us through singular conversations that reveal a surprising maturity in the face of the challenge represented by the entry into adolescence, and further into society.

Nicholas Markarian, a filmmaker confined to a wheelchair, listens to the radio, tuned to a scientific station, in his apartment in a high-rise project. The program being broadcast concerns space travel. Suddenly, a strange cleric appears, followed by two creatures from Jupiter who are looking for a mysterious mineral that causes madness. From the planet Jupiter to the project where he lives, Nicholas Markarian slips into one of the most extraordinary adventures that his imagination has ever allowed him to live. He won't come out of it unscathed.

Laurent hasn't seen his father since the age of two. His father has just had an accident. He almost died. Laurent refuses to go see this father who always acted as if he didn't exist. Julie, his girlfriend, tries to convince him.

For five minutes we watch three metaphoric shots. In the central one, we see a naked young man, a "tableau vivant" of the ancient Greek statue Antinoos. The film is an allegory about youth, beauty and civilization.

What are the necessary elements to produce a good western? To set the stage ironically for action involving all the usual characters : the good guy, the sheriff, the bad guy and the belle. Seen here in their first roles, the players in this video come from a region of Alberta, where cowboys are born and bred. They need not look too far from everyday life to draw inspiration for a classical western...

The blue horseman, born in the kitchens of hell, escapes and sets off to discover, a strange, dreamlike world. Caught up in all kinds of manipulations, he ends up becoming a legend himself.

The silhouette of a giant wave about to engulf fragile boats: this image of suspended fate has traveled the world in the form of postcards, posters, and advertisements. Why such success? How did an image so deeply rooted in a specific culture—that of Japanese prints—come to achieve such universality?

Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierry, who immediately takes aversion.

Blanche is a housekeeping 'maniac'. After a restless, sleepless night, Colette visits her.

In an immense and deserted city, Maaz is running, his head buried in his top hat, and lost in a heavy cape which is wrapped around him to the ground. Dressed like that, where is he going?

A trailer of Maurice Lemaître's films. One finds in this work some of the techniques used by Maurice Lemaître that are blossoming and that are applicable to his own work, thus becoming an auto-promoting instrument. A game on the nature of film that is addressed to the particular genres that are the propaganda film and the advertisement film.

A death in the family. Patrick dies and his three sisters gather at their parents' home in Normandy. Anne, the oldest, is steady, married with two children, showing little emotion. Isabelle, who's cut herself off from her family for eight years, returns from Paris. Claude, Patrick's twin and still a student, grieves for her other half. Along with their parents, each must face family grievances first before they can grieve together for Patrick. Then comes the revelation of how he died, and new feelings come to the fore. Can a death help a family to heal, coax an aging mother back to sanity, bring a couple into each other's arms, and enable two sisters to grow?

The artist sets up his camera in front of a run-down shack. He will attempt to penetrate his subject with a series of agile and inquisitive camera movements. Although open to the four winds, the building is presented to us as an impenetrable castle: there are bars on the windows, locks and pulleys: a series of obstacles blocking our access. Lange launches his attack by panning horizontally, then vertically, across the walls; these are scarred with broken windows, which provide the principal motif for the film. This panning movement continues, with a series of variations based on the geometric patterns offered by the half-broken windows: a series of backlit triangles and rectangles, which at times suggest an anthropomorphic motif. The use of different shooting speeds and of in-camera double-exposure causes the film to fluctuate between documentation and abstraction. L'Ailleurs - Somewhere Else - is the interior which the film never penetrates.

A documentary about the daily life of a native Tzotzil community in southern Mexico, shot over a period of eight years.

This short uses puppets to tell the story of a child who speaks, eats, and walks from the day he is born. After a few days, he sets off in search of his brother. He finds him and they continue down the road together. What follows is the adventure of an ungrateful little boy who drags his brother along through his follies and mischief.

Is the tale of a man and a woman, both boat people, who meet in a transit refugee camp in Indonesia. Years later, they live in Paris, married with a child. One day, the husband discovers that his wife happens to be his younger sister.

Using letters from famous visitors to Paris - Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Maria Rilke - the magical image of the city of lights is linked to that of a banal consumerism. A visual essay about the experience of observing and being observed in a Paris with many faces.

This short film was recorderd during a japanese experimental film screening at the 102. Shot in Fuji Single 8. According to the filmmaker, the real purpose of JAPANESE 102 was to film his friends and play with possible meeting chances between sound and image.

Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1995 by students from GOBELINS, the school of image.

An adaptation of Alain Dorémieux's short story Les Bêtes from his book "Promenades au bord du gouffre".

January 1957, in a small town in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. A middle-class house, the home of two sisters, Clara and Thérèse, whose characters could not be more different. After their father is institutionalized, the two women take over the family business, which specializes in precision optics. One day, the floor of the music room collapses after being ravaged by termites. Karoly, a Hungarian refugeee and jack-of-all-trades, is hired to repair the damage. The Hungarian's presence causes ripples in the seemingly unchangeable life of the two sisters...

Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.

Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez.

A film about violence. Political, social, cultural and family violence.

They were high schoolers, students, sons of peasants, workers. Among them were Jews, foreigners and Communists. Some were born in France, others in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Spain or Brazil. In 1939, they didn't know each other. In 1943, they took up arms together in Toulouse to fight the Nazi occupiers and the Vichy regime. Here, they tell their stories.

Portrait of Dr Hoa, an extraordinary woman who was a minister in the South Vietnamese revolutionary government. Her life is a battle, and that battle is a pleasure. During the war she was at times imprisoned and at times a member of the resistance. She tells Jocelyne Saab about her experiences.

This French-produced 1996 documentary is an hour-long piece covering the history of techno music from Detroit to Berlin Sheffield.

Benoît Jacquot films "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard-Marie Koltès, performed and directed by Patrice Chéreau, at the Théâtre des Amandiers.

With a musical montage created by Christian Zanessi, Compositeurs à l’écoute provides insight into 18 composers and excerpts from 18 works spanning 50 years of music selected from the repertoire of GRM.