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In the Egyptian antiquities department of the Louvre Museum, there is a statuette dating from 1450-20 BC, depicting a couple: Samout and Moutnefret. Artist Jean-Pierre Bertrand recounts his encounter with this Egyptian statuette.
High in the tower sits Julie in a dark cell. Her only way to escape is her fantasy.
The dishonourable Dokter Schnitzel uses the energy of young people to make his deceased mother live again.
A documentary shot in a Turkish quarter, somewhere in Brussels, from a universal viewpoint.
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.
In association with Denis Le Rue. Film haptique / epic, with two male bodies, shot outdoors. Electroacoustic music. Sensual symphony of ecstatic images.
A ten-year old girl's birthday party in Nevers and its relation to the Te Palace's Bacchanalia in Mantova. Real and animated characters (adapted from Giulio Romano's frescoes) are athered through collage means and share a banquet. This film-performance was produced for the tenth anniversary of the De Nevers à lAube film festival.
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...
Each film in this series has been created for a musical score, pre-existing or composed specifically for the project. By way of explanation, the music is often put on a film after it is finished, but in this case the film images and rhythms come from the music. Thus allowing the score to be a sort of script for the film.
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”.
A journey through the most inaccessible and amazing places of a volcanic island. Three characters are looking for a "missing photographer", confronted with the wildest rainforest, giant waterfalls and unexplored canyons, the adventurers end up right in the heart of a volcanic eruption.
Filmmaker Koto Bolofo accompanies his father, a history teacher and 30-year refugee from apartheid, on a journey back to South Africa. He had been a critic of the racist Bantu education system and the brutal disciplinary methods of his school’s Afrikaner principal. The film juxtaposes Professor Bolofo’s flight to asylum with vibrant scenes from the daily life of his village. This is not a documentary of explanation— of politics, of sociology— but an outpouring of images of the people given life by an artist and photographer.
Caudillismo, demagoguery, populism and electoral fraud to the beat of merengue: this is how the latest elections unfolded in the Dominican Republic, on an island ravaged by corruption and economic crisis.
The camera strolls "between tents and trailers, among all these humble people, as simple as their preoccupations. Old and young who all have dreamt, at some point in their lives, of leaving for some unreachable place with palm-trees. They were all born in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and have been coming to Bray-Dunes since they were little. People here play bowls, bet on horses or talk about work. Unemployment is lurking. Misery is there. And nostalgia too ". (G DUPUY, "L' Express" N° 2452)
Who has never dreamed of living in the country one day, in a small house ? In fact, to become part of that new group of people inhabiting our green pastures, the « rurbans » ? Don’t be fooled : the country is no more a paradise than the city. Where you expected to hear the birds singing in the morning, you get the din of tractors and other machines that have sometimes nothing to do with agriculture. Where you expected the straightforward and friendly atmosphere of the village café, you find yourself in the middle of old drunkards, not to mention the fights of the local youth. But at Evelyne’s, it’s not the same. For tonight, the village is having a fair…
Each year, on the third Thrusday in Lent, there is a traditional procession in Pont-sur-Sambre, a small town in the north of France, some 200 kilometers away from Paris. The 104th such procession, in 1993, was a special occasion because it was also the christening of Jean-Jean the giant, who is the symbolic figure of the local peasantry. But a giant often conceals another one. As the film ends, the village mayor turns out ot be even more interesting than Jean-Jean.
13,000 km from mainland France, Crozet, Kerguelen, and Amsterdam are so isolated that even today they can only be reached by boat. No one has ever lived there permanently, except for shipwreck survivors or the unfortunate executors of unfeasible projects. But around these jagged coasts, a history of adventure has been built: that of the Chevalier de Kerguelen, who believed he had discovered a new Eldorado; that of seal and whale hunters, explorers, and industrialists who dreamed of “colonizing” these barren islands... Ruins, shipwrecks, and tiny remains tell the story, and logbooks are opened. All reflect a fascination with these islands, which seem to hide themselves away as if to protect a mystery.
Flea market found footage with sound from the French radio bought low priced at the Emmaüs of Grenoble in 1995. This film is about desire... And the desire of making films.
A film about a prisoner's execution.
An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.
The story of a man and a woman who dance through walls and partitions in a city made of cells, boxes, rooms, and recesses that are explored from the inside, layer after layer. It is the story of a vision, which at times is unique and coherent, and other times gears down, leaving one eye after another in every room of the city. Still, beyond the explosive transformation of bodies, identities, forms, places, and glances, the sinuous choreography of the human couple remains in the spectator’s mind, one and primeval.
In Barhain, ancient former Dilmun, fishing has always played a fundamental role, as attest the several fish bones excavated on the archaeological site of Qala'at al Bahreïn. The observation of traditional fishing techniques with the help of “haddrah” or “gargour”, still used nowadays, represents a complementary source of information.
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.
Short film by Valérie Pavia.
In a futuristic world, a hold-up goes wrong… Not to worry, it's only for a laugh!
Early one morning, an alarm clock on a bedside table starts ringing. It evades the hand that tries to turn it off, but in its escape, it falls off the table's edge into oblivion.
Folded projection (projection on a flat surface) or unfolded (concave / convex surface). This film is projected normally on a screen inflated by the wind. The viewer can move to either side of the concave / convex screen. When we perceive two images, the mind creates relationships of one to the other. This film plays on this ability of the gaze to build links between elements placed side by side. Filmic elements accumulated for some time took shape, gradually by juxtaposition. Material: two 16mm projectors - curved screen five meters long.
Looking through a camera obscura during an eclipse of the sun, he said : "How funny...I can make a bigger hole, but it doesn't work as well. It's funny how pale the image can be on a sheet of paper. Isn't it fantastic?"
A candid home video capturing a transgender sex worker in a very sticky situation.
Hijab: in Arabic, the veil, that which hides, that which separates.
Shot at the estate of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Nude men adorn the castle-like ruins.
An experimental reflection on the nature of sex using a montage of words and images.