A film about German painter Max Ernst made by Gérard Patris.
1973 video by Bernard Parmegiani with accompanying musique concrete score.
An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the ‘actuphages', live and evolve peacefully.
The gestures, the words, the rites of a day like any other in the offices of a large insurance company.
TV short for the series Bouton Rouge.
Ella Fitzgerald's concert recorded 31 Aug 1963 at the Olympia (Paris, France), in a condensed version for TV.
Infinite star space, where luminous forms evolve; dots swarm in webs of insubstantial lines.
Follows a young owl who salvages the reputation of owls, by clearing an area of a rodent infestation.
Videographic dream.
A portrait of feuilleton author, Marcel Allain, creator of one of Franju’s favourite heroes: Fantômas.
JFK Airport, New York. A small plane takes off with 4,500 kg of pure gold and three mafiosos on board, heading for the Mediterranean. From Paris, a commissioner observes the progress of the operations, determined to corner the band and the precious cargo. A game of cat (big tom version) and mouse begins.
A documentary short for "Five Columns à la une".
A man approaching his thirties works as a weaver for an old man with whom he has lived since the age of fourteen. His host mistreats him and the young man having complained about this outside, the old man slaps him and overwhelms him with reproaches. Unable to bear it any longer, the weaver thinks of killing him in his sleep.
Werther was one of the last feature films that Jean-Pierre Lajournade made for television. The Lajournade's version of Werther makes a critical rereading of Goethe's work through a challenge to bourgeois society.
TV short for the ORTF.