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A César award nominated short documentary.

Documentary about the anarchist general Antonio Ortiz.

On the Botel Tobago Island in Taiwan, the first months of the lunar Yami calendar (July-August) are dedicated to buildings and collective festivities of competitive nature. They are punctuated with responsorial songs which can be sung in the Karyag way, that is to say “accompanied by banging hands”.

The Leppo’ Ké, a subgroup of the Kenyah, an important Dayak set of people scattered in Borneo across the provinces of East and North Kalimantan (Indonesia) and the state of Sarawak (Malaysia), live in the district of Bahau Hulu, on the uppermost Bahau River, a tributary of the mighty Kayan River. The film was shot in Long Pengayan hamlet, at Apau Ping, the last settlement on the Bahau, and home to Oko’ (Grand-Mother) Asung Kiring. In the past, all Kenyah Leppo’ Ké women were potters, but today this is a dying craft, which is considered dirty work and therefore quite unpopular.

In Chad, palm groves of Borkou are an essential wealth for nomads. In this desert region, a water-table has allowed the development of a palm grove composed of about 1 200 000 date palms, which produce 7 000 tons of dates per year.

Experimental film by Philippe Durand.

Located in the wilderness area of Campo, in Cameroon, and facing the company Socapalm which exploits oil palm trees, the village of Mabenanga lives on the freshwater shrimps fishing which is the pride of the restaurants of Kribi, Douala or Yaoundé.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

Disneyland Paris VHS presentation

Crush is the story of a man who wants to turn into an animal. He employs a variety of techniques to transform himself. He cuts off parts of his body. He exercises. He wants to return to the water to speed up evolution a little. Has he gone mad, or is he just tired of being human? As the narrator descends into his private obsessions, we begin to perceive the distorted outlines of reason that guide his journey. The trajectory he takes allows us to reflect upon the correlations between the body and identity, our culture’s obsession with the body beautiful and what it means to be human.

A film by Jean-Pierre Valladeau

Daily life in the Aït Bouguemez Valley is documented in this film by Izza Génini. Nestled in the Atlas mountains, the residents of this small village work the land in time with the natural rhythms of the landscape. Sound and tempo are part of the composition of daily life where ancient celebrations are passed down through generations.

In south Marrakesh, Morocco, amidst the olive groves lies the village of Oulad Moumen where Habiba and Yossef Edery began their family in the 1920s. Genini, the youngest of the nine Edery children, organized a family reunion in 1992.

"As if I had known where I was going, I seemed to choose again and I changed route, I took on my right another street, better lit," Broadway "than she was called. When the faithful enter their bank, do not believe that they can serve themselves like that according to their whim. Not at all. They talk to Dollar by whispering things to him through a small fence, they confess what! ” LF Céline, Journey to the end of the night.

… it's a beautiful day / people outside have come together / listening to what the other has to say…

All roads lead ... elsewhere

In 1997, Embargo used images and sound to convey the physical suffering of the Iraqi people, who alone bore the brunt of the political punishment meted out to their leaders, the terrorism perpetrated by the international institutions responsible for such a decree, the reign of injustice elevated to the status of political strategy, and the moral corruption engendered by the embargo.

In association with Jean-Luc Guionnet. Film paradoxal: optique / haptique, finished / work in progress, inside / outside, falsified ‘ showing ‘ itself as draft, etc... Two male bodies melting / separating. Multi-electroacoustic musics. Modifiable / modify Duration.

A high angle shot of light, colours and rhythms in the darkness of a rave party. Freedom of Super 8 (main material of most of my films at this time), slow motion intensity (Hong-Kong cinema convinced me about the profoundness), a flash of a male body outline (colour metamorphosis on the outline of the dancer’s naked shoulder), developing dance.

A performance-projection produced for the 11th aniversary De Nevers à l'aube film Dear, Louis,Auguste, Georges and the others... An homage to the pioneers of the cinema and animation cinema. The main steps of the history of projection and the reproduction of movement are impersonated by baby Margot as she moves about on all fours. Different animation and shooting techniques are used here, all of them closed to the pioneers‚ experiments. Margot's wandering takes place on a sea shore lined with cabanas reminiscent of the film set «Around a cabana» by Émile Reynaud.

A year in the life of Richard, Sylvain, Nono and Calou who are squatting an unused railway tunnel in the 13th ward in Paris. They have created an entire domestic interior with television set, fridge, washing machine... With their four dogs, they live as a kind of highly organised urban tribe. But Nono is sent to prison, Sylvain meets a woman...

1 - Observe carefully and secretly (someone, an animal) - spy on a suspicious person spy - to follow someone to watch - spin, track, monitor - Animal spying on his prey - watch - Prowling, to alert. 2 - Observe carefully... scrutinize... (in The Oxford Dictionary).

Montage of Marie-Laure De Decker’s work in Vietnam

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

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

Experimental short by Jean Barral.

Poetic tribute to Antonin Artaud by the director, a young chinese filmaking student in La Sorbonne.

Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to them. The most fruitful feature of such closeness lies in the tension of the many differences, and mainly, for ETANT DONNÉS, the issue of the primacy of the visible and the real, which does not exclude the pursuit of sensation.

Because he wandered onto 42nd Street one night and met Slacks, a taxi-driver is sentenced to death.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

A chicken gives birth to a peculiar chick.

A love story between two fingers, presented in five scenes: digitisation, excitement, convulsions, complications, and outcome.

"Poetic meditation around light projection [...] Selection Internationale aux Festivals d'Osnabruck, Hamburg, Odense, Moncton, Tel Aviv, Utrecht, Kiev."

Filmmaker Elliot Caplan pays tribute to the partnership of composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

What's a poor boy to do? At the beach with his best fag hag girlfriend, our hero spies the archetypal male in swimsuit attire.

"A world of pain and sorrow even while the cherry trees are in bloom." Haïku d'Issa (18th century).

A film made from the scraps of different films; a montage film on the expression of time in cinema.