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Super 8 experimentations about the theme of self-portrait.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Body Double

Total eclipse filmed the 11th of August 1999 in Etretat, when, after an immutable run, slowly, inexorably, the moon seduces the sun and seizes it. This film emerged from the desire to seize, image after image, this magical embrace, the beauty of this astral dance.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Baillie Walsh's Massive Attack Be Thankful For What You've Got

Here, Totem designates the representations of the phallus and of it´s power. From the beginning of consciousness to the most sophisticated forms of civilization, the conceptual correlation between phallic imagery and power has been constant. I dove into the meanders of these representations in order to testify of their relevancy and importance.

An abrasive abstract film accompanied by a scratching drone.

A short films devoted to legendary philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the ‘pure optical and sound image’.

Saturday evening is a promontory where the weekend desire for something different is waited for like an undertow current in the sea. Some places remind people, as if that were still necessary, that it is still possible to have fun, to let oneself go in one’s life. Sometimes this play loses its balance between being carefree or being irresponsible. You often find, between a laser beam and the sound of techno music, the shadow of youth disgusted with life... Or longing for love. Most of them are between 16 and 20 years old, called Nadège, Ludovic, Stéphanie, Guillaume or "Gasoil", they each dream in turn of "their" Saturday evening, the one they’ve imagined, the one they’ve arranged. Far from the noise of the town, they create their memories in two radically different places. Some will go to "Vibration", the fashionable night club, crammed full every weekend. The others will meet at "Top Club", an old-fashioned dance-floor now becoming very rare in the country.

Once upon a time, there was this famous children's story whose lingering fears we always relive

Asexual creatures frolic left and right before the eyes of little children? A film that explores, in a light and amusing manner, what Walt Disney movies and, more generally speaking, movies for children, might potentially contain. Also, I wanted to play with colliding recycled super-8 shots with a little song by Colette Renard, found on magnetic tape at a flea market in the nineties... - Olivier Fouchard

Animated short whereby a bear hunts humans.

Self-filming. A parody of the pornographic (male) gaze.

From Antiquity to the year 2000, the epic of hemp, told by itself. Religion, war, rebellion, the life of this plant has been so linked with that of mankind that for once we thought it right to let "Cannabis Sativa" speak for itself. Hemp first appeared in the Far East about 12,000 years before Christ. In daily life "Cannabis Sativa" or hemp was used for making cloth paper and bows. In sacred use it was a medicine and was used in many religious uses in India and with the Scythians. The twentieth century establishes the duality of the plant. In Europe as in China, hemp is used in the textile industry while it is used once more medically in the treatment of numerous disorders. Disadvantaged by the interdictions which it incurs as a psychotropic herb, hemp is a real economic and ecological problem today.

In a burlesque mode, the director tries to deflate the world (realized here by a globe), to level it, to put its three dimensions in two. To do this, he fights against the material and the ball, embraces it, lies down on it, twists and tramples it. Illusory victory or vain efforts?

To his despair, the lion-king “Weogho-Naaba” has only daughters. One day, his wife lays an egg. The king sets off to find a wife for his son, but she is most disappointed to see that her future husband is an egg! – and decides to use magic to hatch him.

For two years, HPG has daily pointed his camera on his work, his friends, his lovers. Exposed, sometimes with unusual tenderness, his thoughts, his emotions, his body, his sex. He thus delivers a hilarious and poetic filmed diary, a piece of raw brutal art, Bukowskien until the end of the night.

These three very big panels scattered in three different museums (London, Paris and Florence) are considered to be a sort of manifesto of the new art of the 15th century. The rediscovery of the principles of perspective of the ancient Greek treatises, the innovations of an architect like Brunelleschi or a goldsmith like Ghiberti were put to good use by painters to render space and depth. But, in Uccello’s work, in addition there is, besides the passionate quest for perspective, an intense curiosity for geometric shapes, for colour and above all for movement. The subject of The Battles of San Romano : an obscure battle in the Tuscan hills, in 1432, between the mercenaries of Florence and those of Sienna. Paolo made it into a feast for the eyes and the mind and invented paradoxical images which had consequences right up to the cubist and surrealist painters.

Together, the three Bertrand brothers work their farm in a small Savoyard village. In 1972, they took the enormous risk to invest in the construction of an ultra modern stable for 82 milk cows. With modern organisation, they hoped to lead a better life. Almost 30 years later, the farm is successful. Their work is meticulous and the milk is graded top quality. The human cost is much more sombre. Indeed these thirty years can be summarised in one word : work. The brothers are bachelors and – each one now over sixty years old – a bitterness when they recall their past. The younger brother says it himself: "It's an economic success, but it's a human failure...".

News on the Grégory Affair: The Villemin family requests new DNA analyses. On Wednesday, December 16, the Dijon public prosecutor’s office announced that additional investigative actions have been initiated in the ongoing case surrounding the child's murder. A look back at a tragic case that has spanned several decades...

A stone-made angel decides to take off the monument where he was built to follow travelling birds. But this wish of liberty won't be so easy...

In Togo among Kabye people, trials by fire ordeal happen among truth masters in order to settle witchcraft cases which cannot be judged by usual men. This film shows two cases.

From the Bronx to the Minguettes, in the underground passages of the inner city and working-class suburbs, a new artistic movement of rebellion has appeared over the past 15 years : "hip hop", with its tagging, rap and dance providing and outlet for an entire generation anxious to proclaim : "I exist !". Who are the dancers of this movement ? What are their experiences, their anger, their dreams, their hopes ? How is it that an entire generation – which sees itself as "burned" – identifies with the special energy of this youth culture ? What is the source of this unbridled beauty and body language which has moved form the street to the stage, upsetting all the codes of contemporary dance ? A journey of initiation to meet the heroes of this movement and give the floor to all those who normally are not heard except through the distorting prism of the media every time and inner city explodes.

Although many of Sala’s works address personal histories—his own and those of others—their themes of trauma, loss, and recovery are universal. Using tropes of both documentary and fictional filmmaking, Nocturnes (1999) approaches these themes in an uneasy exploration of insomnia and personal isolation. The film offers a brief but telling glimpse into the lives and psyches of two men Sala met while studying art in Turcoing, France: Jacques, who collects and obsessively cares for thousands of fish, and Denis, who copes with disturbing memories of his service as a United Nations peacekeeper in Bosnia by playing violent video games.

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.

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.

Close-ups of political posters on the Nicaraguan War and Reagan, edited with passersby at the Government Center in Boston, a mother carrying her baby in a front baby carrier and protectively supporting his head, linked with posters showing women lying on the ground, protecting their children from gunfire in a street, or parents lifting a stroller above their heads while going down narrow stairs, in connection with a poster of four united arms in a cross, accompanied by the slogan “The People Will Do It” and a television crew which attracted a group of children.

An urban sound landscape is transformed into techno music. The city moves from day to night. Drugstore crosses multiply and pulse according to their own rhythm. They are transformed into a sky of crosses.

A César award winning documentary depicting a young man who finds a beer can that his friend manages to turn into a suitcase that he can sell to a tourist.

Scotland has a reputation for not only being a very beautiful country, but also for being a poor country, the poorest in the UK along with Ulster.

Waiting For The Stork takes us to three countries where the gay and lesbian Baby Boom is in full swing,­ France, the Netherlands, and the US. It introduces us to lesbian mothers, candid children of gays and lesbians, and the ecstatic gay father of a newborn.

Paul Schmidt sent me a set of five poems from a series called WAR SONGS. He treats the war in a brilliant and sarcastic way, evokes his seduction. Mark Bennett's score is itself provocative, languorous, and close to a waltz. The whole thing is a series of songs cast in the mode of melodrama, that is to say music in tandem with a narration. My contribution lies in the superimposition of war scenes, coupled with what I called an image of Gabriel: a young and handsome soldier, a personification of the good warrior, a protective image. He gives off strong impressions throughout the duration of the film. She makes him appear sometimes active and aggressive, sometimes asleep or beckoning. The film uses footage from the Vietnam War and World War II. They show soldiers marching, tanks rolling. Explosions reveal in passing our dear “Gabriel”.

1999, 16mm, 01'30", color, silent, France

Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, SOTIGUI KOUYATE: A MODERN GRIOT dresses the portrait of one of Africa's greatest actor now based in Paris. From Africa to Europe, the film unveils the multiple facets of Sotigui Kouyate, actor, musician and modern griot.

Charly, René, Katiga, Zinedine and Madeleine tell in a few minutes the story of their hands, filmed in a static shot, placed on a table that is familiar to them. Five acquaintances of the director are invited to present their hands, and nothing else, to the camera. The stories that this unconventional situation elicits reveal sensual memories and buried pain. The hands, restored to a certain independence, join, move and dance.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blood Sisters

A child and his elderly companion are bored in their hospital room.