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This series is a living approach to a hundred years of cinema through the notion of plan. It takes into account around thirty shots, in the most lively way possible, in the form of dialogues between two actors; a bit like a dialogue in front of an editing table. In the picture, we can only see this shot, but slowed down, stopped, traveled in all directions, with no other special effects than these changes in speed. These voices of today's actors, which the viewer recognizes - Fanny Ardant, Michel Piccoli, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin - are a link between the cinema of the past and the cinema of today.

In association with Jean-Luc Guionnet. Film of the double interiority (place and energies in presence), by two male bodies creating a lyric macrocosm of images treated directly live, with electroacoustic music haptique.

A former-soldier from the Cambodian army deserted in 1991. He lives with his wife and children in a village near Phnom Penh. He explains: “For us it’s simple: the sons of the poor go off to war, the sons of the wealthy go to town to become policemen, the sons of Party members go abroad to study.”

A barocco environment inspired by shared desires and fantasy (that led to the co-writing of Corptrass, a scenario by Michel Journiac and Stephane Marti in 1980) shelters fragments of the story, passion and doubts of the master of Corporal Art.

Gabrielle's universe, one of Canada's most important French-language writers.

The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy.

The dramatic story of three great Russian avant-garde painters from the beginning of the last century – Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and Vladimir Tatlin – and their supporter, Nikolai Punin, the first post-revolution Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums. They dedicated their lives to belief in the revolution and its connection to avant-garde art, but the communist regime betrayed them. The history depicted on the painted canvases reflects the tumultuous period of the 1920s and 30s in the Soviet Union, in Leningrad and in artistic circles of the time. Only with perestroika have the avant-garde paintings, stored in museum archives, again seen the light of day.

A body plus a body. A body within a body. First principle of mechanics. Study of forces. Action reaction. During the special Carpenter session organized by the Molokino, the sentence is launched: "You better fuck rather than jerk off." The man with the invective comes out. Fred fucks, the same evening, to show off in the same place the following week. Action reaction. If it happens that we keep our socks to practice the act, love can only be done in underwear. I thought about. Do I have to show my ass? What if I preserved myself from the contaminating image? A pornography of simplicity. Holy and healthy doll, moral plastic and fashion. So it will happen elsewhere. This film is irrelevant. Copy, mimic, exploit. And that it does not give anything! Shyness in the act, who's up to it,

A short film criticizing the practice of female genital mutilation. Alternating between real and enacted footage with various points of view.

Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1998 by students from GOBELINS.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blow Out

August 1992. I was working for a whole week in total darkness, in the image-by-image mode of my Super 8 camera. As I perceived an image on the screen, I started imagining what it would be if those images could show their own metamorphosis… But within a single frame, I had the sharp impression of a real contact behind the image itself. As if I could reach the formal and mathematical language of models… The images seemed to be whispering. More movement… more space…I keep developing this laboratory of shapes known as the Dervishes.

A little bit more of a day in Mathilde's life, an ordinary and multifaceted woman.

The Pilgrimage to Cythera's island is one of the glories of the Louvre Museum. Praised by Baudelaire, Nerval and Proust, copied by countless painters, continually analysed, it is both legend and utopia. What are those dancing couples doing ? Are they leaving for or coming back from the island of love ?

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

"To move the world (and thus the mind!) with one's eyes, to put (part of) it into a box (like we do) and shake it, gently, as to bring its (the world's, the mind's) particles to life (again) [...] 
A souvenir; capturing (in vain!) time (lost), passing us by like the shadow of a fast-moving cloud." -T.K.

A film about sound and hearing. Some of the world's most daring composers and musicologists probe the nature of sound and hearing in this unique documentary. The sounds of a rabbit sleeping, the rhythms of a tugboat on water, and the music inspired by industrial machines are among the sounds explored. Includes insights from John Cage, Luciano Berio and Knud Victor.

A 1992 documentary by Paul Moreira exploring the rise of hip-hop culture in France. Following key figures like IAM, NTM, and graffiti artists, it examines rap’s social impact, its connection to youth, and the cultural movement it represents.

Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, redo the Way of the Cross of Christ's Passion. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters of this way of the cross, seven centuries old. Gérard Courant gathered and edited the rushes of this shoot and made five films. The last, entitled "Burzet", presents the village and shows the preparations for the Stations of the Cross of Burzet

In the Dinka language, "ajiep" means "calabash", which is a recipient for collecting cows’ milk and has the connotation of abundance. Ajiep is also the name of a small village in the south of Sudan, with its school, a village chief, a market... and widespread famine. In the wake of the devastation caused by the war, tens of thousands of people have been uprooted by the North-South fighting and have found refuge near Ajiep, but have no food supplies. A team of "Médecins sans frontières" is trying to limit this human catastrophe. The rhythm of life is dictated by the search for food and survival : airdrops of cereals, vaccination campaigns, distribution of food... The film concentrates on the story of Angeth, a young mother who has just arrived at Ajiep with her two small daughters. She had survived for nine months in the forest on fruits and roots, after her herd had been stolen.

A tragic love story of an ex-ballerina and a young guy.

Study of the fragment, the word, the written word... some are in French, others in Greek, without translation. For those who do not understand Greek, magic of the unknown, word-drawing, form in itself. The beauty of the texts means that they do not need images. It is not an illustrative film, it is a film about the fragment that reveals itself... reappears... a film based on the superimposition of images... a film in perpetual motion, nothing stops... It is a film about the sensuality which emerges from the poems... images of a moving matter where fantasies can slip in. It is a film about the poetry of love, the violence of passions, the tears... Sappho tender and violent, philosopher and poet... Sappho who comes back to us, present, beyond the 2700 years that separate us.

The film is not only a nod to Lettrist and Structuralite films in terms of its form and content; It was while thinking of the Flux Films series initiated by George Maciunas that the original idea for this film came to me. It had to be short, concise and in black and white. I had for some time had a fascination with the figures, the accounts and the texts used for the production of the credits made on ban-titles and which, after several generations take a slight overexposure. The film was set up with the references it actually generated.

In 1939, polish writer Witold Gombrowicz arrives in Buenos Aires with the plan of staying for two weeks. But World War II breaks out in Europe, and he decides to stay in Argentina, which he will only abandon 24 years later.

Based on an unpublished text by Pierre Legendre, a great thinker little known in France, this film is a journey into some of the emblematic organisations of the establishment. The film also recounts very real stories such as the construction of the audience hall of the Vatican, the preparation of the procession of the 14th of July, the congress of a multinational company in Sardinia, a heart transplant and the training of the young dance pupils of the Opéra de Paris in their school in Nanterre, etc. All of these portrayals of the establishment render the Fashioning of a Western Man possible in fascinating sequences that are sometimes funny, sometimes sad but which remain consistently disquieting.

Tourism in the Seychelles islands, underwater shots of marine life, facts from educational slides, bleached Ektachrome films, 16 mm frames, Super 8 strips, these are the images and material which led us from the seaport to the plate. We look at the sea world through the layers and juxtaposition of taped strips of emulsion from various sources.

Pro shot concert of the group produced for French tv

Zé Luís is 81 years old. This elderly man has always lived in the village of São Martinho in northeastern Portugal. His life has followed in the footsteps of his ancestors. He owns land, has worked it, and has been able to provide a modest living for his family. Things began to change when overpopulation and poverty led to families breaking up. His children had to emigrate. Now nothing will ever be the same again. Zé Luís is one of the last representatives of a way of life that is now gone. His children are no longer there, and the opening up of the region means that working methods have to be rethought.

If you think you have seen everything then you are even blinder than I believed.

A square format market by the rhythms of its many obliques (the frame of the glass window, the guardrail in the foreground) and its brilliant colours (ultramarine, emerald, orange, pink and the bright yellow of the mimosa), L'Atelier is one of Bonnard's last great paintings. It is also one of his masterpieces, magnificient and enigmatic, meriting in itself a detailed analysis.

In December, Armando and Rim invite me to their wedding. I miss the ceremony but film the reception. Maurice Lemaître is the witness. Later in the evening, I go to a concert by Katie O'Looney where Rose Lowder screens her films. We see other friends who are visiting Paris in December, and the film ends with an image of the first snowfall of the year.

View of Amazon's myths and folk tales.

A fantasy short on the sculptor Claude Viseux

A unique documentary on the work of a legendary genius of theatre, Tadeusz Kantor. Filmmaker Denis Bablet traces Kantor's roots as a visual artist in Poland and explores his ingenious methods of designing the props which become living sculptures in his extraordinary theatre productions.

Made and presented as part of the “Gay Night” for Canal+, this 30 minutes movie is an intent to answer the question “is there a lesbian culture?”. The historical and international dimension seems therefore obvious to answer this question that sounds like an uppercut against the white heteropatriarchal mainstream culture. Series of short movies and news stories extracts (1912 to 1995), punctuated by interviews of lesbian figures over the whole world. Nathalie Magnan has created a visual shock presenting the lesbian culture in all its forms throughout the 20th century: merry appropriation and fierce repackaging of images produced by the mainstream culture.

A beach, a jogger, a voice of caution : "Watch out !" But will he listen?...

Composed in Nice, at the Hôtel Régina where the painter had been living since 1949, The Sadness of the King, a 1952 painting nearly four meters by three, is one of the last great works of Matisse. It was created using the cut-paper technique: the painter, immobilized by illness, cuts shapes from sheets of paper previously coated with gouache. He directs an assistant who pins them and moves them on the wall until the desired balance is achieved. Scissors, handled with dexterity, thus henceforth replace pencils and brushes. The pure tones used in the composition eliminate all shading and allow the painter to play solely on the relationships between colors and, above all, on contrasts: black and white (considered by Matisse as colors in their own right), red and blue, green and yellow...