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.
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.
The gestures, the words, the rites of a day like any other in the offices of a large insurance company.
Videographic dream.
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.
TV short for the series Bouton Rouge.
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.
"L'invitation au voyage” is articulated around the combining of images of memories. On a technical level, this is obtained by using fading photographs followed by solarised landscapes produced using the universal special effects device developed by the research department of the ORTF (the French national radio and TV broadcasting corporation) and a scene filmed in slow motion using a high-speed camera operating at 200 frames per second.
Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess.
Follows a young owl who salvages the reputation of owls, by clearing an area of a rodent infestation.
The mysterious events in the life of a young girl found murdered on the banks of the Seine are gradually elucidated by a police investigation. Will the culprit be unmasked?
Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small Corsican village perched in the mountains. His presence intrigues Baron Ucciani, who reigns supreme over Santa Lucia. The meeting with the baron and his young wife Maria could divert our hero from his original project: revenge ...
In "psychanalyse", a two part documentary, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller under the direction of Benoit Jacquot. The Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF, the french public TV) broadcast this program. This documentary and its text became famous because this is the only televisual experience practiced by Lacan. A fair amount is made of the fact that Lacan was renowned for his powers of seduction and what effect this had on transference in the clinical setting. According to some of the interviewees, he could be irresistibly seductive, so much so that some thought him "monster".