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A discarded toilet seat is thrown into the river, drifting through La Seine from paris to le havre, two bin collectors, a couple in crisis and three children passionate about fishing magnet will cross its path. no one can stop it and no one can remain unscathed by it. it ends its journey in the sea like so many of our excesses.
Navigating the treacherous social tides of high school, Marine is cut adrift by Océane, her older sister who’s caught in the thrall of an older man. Meanwhile, their mother struggles to keep her head above water.
A film by Fred L'Epee.
Cinematographer Eric Eduarte Villa traveled to Mexico City between 2014 and 2016 based on the Theory of the Dérive, the part of situationist philosophy which tries to make trips without an apparent destination, just to enjoy the exploration of urban geography.
Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning. He, moreover, no longer believes in his mother.
In the 1960s, Jacquie, a rebellious young woman, turns her back on her family to accompany an itinerant guitar player, Pierre, across France. The love affair is short-lived and when Pierre walks out of her life, Jacquie ends up in the bed of the first man she meets, a student. Disillusioned and broke, Jacquie returns to her home, but refuses to follow the example of her sister, who has become trapped in a life of domesticity. Whilst looking for a job worthy of her talents, she pursues a series of amorous adventures with men from all walks of life. Will any of them live up to her expectations...?
A dancer moves among the people in an old bazaar in Tehran capturing their responses and reactions.
An homage to the city of Venice—a nighttime boat ride through the hidden, the unknown, the mysterious—inspired by the Situationists’ theory of the dérive.
This film documents an aimless walk through one of Kyoto's former outcaste neighbourhoods, which continues to exist below normal Japanese living standards. Despite pro-active legislation, people from families associated with such areas can experience discrimination. The soundtrack was created using a self-built apparatus we call "The Octopus". Voltages from light sensors on the projection screen control an analogue modular synthesizer allowing the film itself to act as a score. Soundtrack created in collaboration with Malte Steiner.
This film proposes the allegory of a social drift with all the power of romantic fascination that it can evoke. It is about a meeting oftwo young people formatted by a culture of success with two men embodying a nihilistic and dematerialized vision of society. This work treads the fine line that separates the hero from the loser.. Are these two men messiahs or a pair of wandering vagrants? Is this descent on the river closer to a descent into the fires of hell or rather an initiatory journey?
Jérôme has killed Driss, of Moroccan ancestry, who used to be his best friend. Is it an accident, a drama caused by jealousy or a racist murder? The story of Jérôme's long drift is discovered as the police carry out its investigation.
This film takes place on the island of Sein and reflects an experience that happened to the director, Jeanne Labrune. Before her, film crews on the trail of the sailors who, in 1940, joined De Gaulle in England, had bored the islanders. The filmmaker found herself in a position of incrustee, in a state of non-communication bordering on exclusion. Unable to obtain anything from the inhabitants, but nevertheless involved in the environment of granite and mutism of the people, she filmed herself as a "wanderer not integrated" in an island, whose tendency to fossilization she thus reveals.
A super-8 essay film using psychogeography and the writing of John Wyndham to comment upon the changing landscape and topography of Liverpool in order to highlight the increased bid towards its homogenisation.
Documents the saga of thousands of Jews hidden in shelters in Vienna and Bratislava in the hope of embarking on the 'Atlantic' - a makeshift vessel which would hopefully take them to safety.
A young caregiver reverts to a fantasy world to cope with the grief of losing her mother and to escape from the drudgery of the care home where she works.
Claire, 38, works in the litigation department of a bank. She has to deal with the case of Jacques Marey, 50, the boy she secretly loved when she was a 12-year-old. Today, Claire lives with Antoine and their daughter, Lola, 13, who falls in love with Julien, 22, Jacques's son. Like Mother like daughter ? Love stories usually end badly, but they don't necessarily repeat themselves!