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Driven out of Tibet and the eastern Himalayas, the Akha have fought their way to the extreme north of Thailand and Burma. Hostile to outsiders, the Akha today are the living remnants of a former time, the bygone era of the Chinese Middle Empire. The Akha have a dangerously bad reputation: smuggling, destroying the forest, ignoring frontiers, growing opium. If they remain in the hills the Thaï will eventually destroy them, if they accept to go down to the valleys they will surely die of disease. The Akha are running out of options.

Baba, a 20 year old Senegalese, dreams of becoming a soccer player in France.

A deep zoom shot that plays with the definitions of sexe (sex or sexual organ) and thym (thyme), which rhymes with the English word time, creating a game with words and images.

A short film by Ahmed Zir.

This film is a look at the disappearance of religious and industrial cultures in a small town (Scardovari) located in northern Italy (Po Delta). This erasure, together with the economic situation, pushes the men and women to return to the water to survive. The image as a representation of the memory of a place, of an inner landscape, of a mystery. A narrative that belongs to the world of exegesis, to an infinite world of relationships, of networks where each image enters into correspondence with another, opening up the meaning ever more and breaking the unity of history.

Every evening, Eugène Fortin becomes Madame Simone, to the delight of club-goers around town. His flamboyant costumes, a pastiche of many styles, give him the look of a clown from the end of the last century. One day, Madame Simone hears a voice urging him to go to the Wigstock festival in New York: a gathering dear to both transvestites and wig fans.

Forms are born and die.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Obsession

On the "fleuve de la Saint-Laurent", a couple of welcome them boat from the world by "hisser le drapeau" from their country and playing their national hymn.

Alone and desperate, not being able to escape the "perversion" that alienates him from women, Michel wants to rest and forget. He leaves Paris...

Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1991 by students from GOBELINS, the school of image.

A filmed personal journal in which a woman reviews her Korean ancestry, her troubled adoption, and her arrival in France.

On September 10, 1898, Empress Elisabeth of Austria was tragically assassinated in Geneva. Since then, this illustrious empress has fascinated adults and children alike. A century later, we present to you a historical documentary on the exceptional destiny of this legendary empress. Her legendary beauty, her charm and her independence of mind, her thirst for travel and her passion for sports were as magical as they were dramatic, but the memory she left behind for eternity is that of a woman close to all. This film highlights the political role of Empress Elisabeth, neglected by historians, as well as her tastes and passions. The important stages of her life are also widely mentioned, such as her marriage to the young Emperor Franz Joseph, the disappearance of her cousin King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the tragedy of Mayerling.

For five weeks in November and December 1995, the filmmaker followed life at the Paul Vaillant-Couturier junior secondary school at Champigny sur Marne. Although it is a standard shool, it also has a special SEGPA section (General and Adapted Professional Education Stream), as well as a class for non-French-speaking children, known as the "NFs". Twenty seven nationalities were present in the school at the time of shooting. Filming school activities, lessons in the different sections, professional guidance interviews, the search for training courses, the annual cross country race and administrative jobs, the filmmaker gives a direct uncommented account of the current challenges facing state schools.

In the studios of the Florida in Agen, several groups of young musicians rehearse. A right-wing politician, who initiated the project, speaks out about it, while a colleague from the same party denigrates the initiative. Part of the regional documentary TV program (France 3 Limousin) called "Aléas".

Bamako, Mali (Africa), March 1991. Military dictatorship collapses, and with it, the law of silence.

The filmed object is a magnetic tape placed on pieces of mirrors. The whole film is based on the camera movements that are played with light, on the meanders of the magnetic strip. Precise and wild film with very tight framing. Abstract film. Visual music or philosophical film?... Chaos or Plato's cave?...

Who were they burying that day in Ornans ? A gathering of ordinary people, a priest, altor boys, all inhabitants of Courbet's native village. The secrets of a simple funeral ceremony which nevertheless created a scandal in the 1851 Salon.

Borrowing images from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, LeFave revisits one of the most famous murder scenes in film history. In this case however, the search is for the absent female body. Is the female gaze dead?

Michel J consists of a series of portraits drawn from a video that was filmed during the religious service for the death of Michel Journiac in October 1995. It is the memory of this mass, the representation of a rite. A video work at first, it uses photography and ends up in painting, in pictorialness, through numerous references to the History of art and to ancient and modern painting.

In association with Jean-Luc Guionnet. Film ‘haptique’ with electroacoustic music, on two male bodies in tension and brightness alternated, accused by technical manipulations and study of the light.

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

Jan Peters films and talks every day, every day fills a reel of Super-8 or 16mm film. He speaks to the camera, or records a commentary on the images he is filming. For a month, Jan Peters tries to reflect on different themes, and events sometimes come to upset his plans. A quasi-police investigation in Belgium interferes with an intimate relationship; technical problems of all kinds (sound, image, light, film development, automobile mechanics) force the filmmaker to invent other solutions; a debate between filmmakers on the theme of the power of images turns into burlesque; artist friends want to contribute to the film that is being made. Thus, day after day, a film is built. Some things are planned, others are not.

The Mériaux shop is the temple/theatre of hardware. It is the most sacred expression of this activity, at least to my eyes, which are fixed on the memory I have of my last visit, when, as a novice handyman, I threw some of my savings across the counter, which was mysteriously separated from the rest of the place by a worn plexiglass screen. I made this film in order to share this fragment of my intimate possessions.

An absurd universe gone awry... a furious chase on a mountain peak... a driver chased by a police car is ready to do anything to escape. But there's no way out: he's trapped in Short Circuit.

Rayman fights with an anthropomorphic punching bag.

Computer animated short about a strange tribe made of junk.

A French short that features a lady who went on holiday to capture the sun eclipse.

Dina Vierny is a renowned French gallerist, art historian and the muse of sculptor Aristide Maillol. In the French art community, Dina Vierny was highly regarded for her refined taste and broad-mindedness. During the war years she participated in the Resistance movement. In the 1970s, it was she who exposed Soviet conceptual artists to the West. In the movie take part: Aristide Maillol's nephew Yvon Berta-Maillol, artists Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Vladimir Yankilevsky. Dina Vierny herself talks about her life.

The awareness of a strange and immaterial presence between the lines of a book.

Kobarweng reconstructs the first encounter between a remote village set in the highlands of the island of New Guinea and the outside world. Mainly told through a native narrative, it reclaims the memory of a colonial past. Switching the roles of observer and observed, it is anthropology-and specifically the desire underlying anthropological representation, that is depicted as an object of curiosity destabilized by the villager's questions. Point of departure was Kaiang Tapior's question "Where is your helicopter?", a remark which puzzled the filmmaker during his visit to the village of Pepera.

The film tells the erotic story of two images that seek, touch each other, and finally merge. One, the original, the myth, on Dreyer's side, the other the copy, the simulacrum, the image that the director made, and who needs to inscribe his image in the masterpiece from Dreyer's.

To restore the rule of law in Ercolano, a suburb of Naples and one of the cities symbolizing corruption in Italy, is the task that Luisa Bossa, elected mayor in December 1995, has set herself.

After a masked hold-up one gangster and one sweeper meet in a public park.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho as Donna Summer in Bad Girls

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

The SIRPA (Information and Public Relations Service of the Armed Forces) unveils in this work, videos of the Second World War, taken from military archives. From the entry into the war of the French army until the victory of May 8, 1945, all the highlights of the Second World War are illustrated here: the agony of Poland, the Maginot Line, the misfortunes of the people, Occupied Paris, the armistice, the French in London, the USSR under the Nazi boot, the liberation of Europe and many others. Jean-Claude Dassier provides these documents with high-quality historical comments.

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.

Two days in the life of an ex-coalminer. One is filmed very soberly in a studio and belongs to the past, to memories. The memory of having been a trainee miner, and then a skilled one. This imaginary day lives on memory. The second day is filmed like a television report, it belongs to the present, to the continuity of life. The life of a retired miner. This day is made up of elements spread out in time : a family meal, a game of bowls, shopping…

"La Pierre bleue" is a personal journey through André du Bouchet's poetic work. Driven by the poet's admirable interpretation, the film gradually uncovers the words, paintings, stones, and paths that mark this uncompromising poetic universe. Some of the author's reflections on writing itself aid us in this discovery.