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- Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
- A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed with the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
- After the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is a kick boxer Savannah (Narith Roeun). A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19-year-old bar girl, Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan). She is humiliated by her debts to the bar's owner, and is forced to keep working. Savannah wants to help Srey clear her debt, so he teams up with an ex-soldier and plans a crime that could net him some money.
- Godard makes a collage of videos, TV reports, interviews, scenes from classic films and he gives his approval (Bonus) or disapproval (Malus) ) for what is being shown, inviting viewers to also take a position on what they are seeing.
- Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.
- In this portrait of French designer Thierry Mugler, friends and colleagues discuss his skill and influence in the fashion world. Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Victor Laszlo and Delphine de Gerphanion appear in various historical and social French sequences which highlight the Mugler's visual flair.
- The son of a famous Nazi filmmaker shoots a movie and meets the former city commander of Vilna, a man who ordered the killing of many thousands of people. The film is a documentary made during the shooting of Thomas Harlan's _Wundkanal (1985)_
- Claire Chazal gives a voice to those - artists, intellectuals and creators - who take a look at the world and culture.
- The first international satellite 'video installation' by South Korean-born American artist Nam June Paik, often credited with inventing video art. It occurred on New Year's Day, 1984. Filled with music and poetry performances.
- An experimental documentary detailing the history of plane hijackings.
- This three-hour-long French documentary chronicles the life and personality of famed French poet, actor and intellectual Antonin Artaud, who passed away in 1948 when he was only 50 years old.
- "Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy comprising 'Visa De Censure No.X', 'Livre De Famille' and 'Anima Mundi'. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture.
- The faculty of Porto by Alvaro Siza: the program and its spatial transposition, the complexity of the articulations between the buildings, the richness of the interior circulation and the variety of lighting.
- A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
- Artist James Turrell uses the sky as his studio to explore his creative interest in light and space. This fascinating documentary examines Turrell's work, especially his ongoing project at Roden Crater - a natural cinder volcanic crater near Flagstaff, Ariz., that Turrell is transforming into a giant observatory for beholding celestial phenomena. In interviews, Turrell discusses his research on natural light and his interest in Hopi mythology.
- The mysterious connections between love stories, ghosts and cinematography, through the feeling of "haunting", and being haunted.
- Dancers from the Trisha Brown Dance Company, teach the ballerinas from the Ballet de l'Opéra in Paris one of Brown's most representative works "Glacial Decoy" (1979).
- Designer, architect and town planner, Charlotte Perriand marked the 20th century. A pioneer of social and committed architecture, this collaborator at Le Corbusier has created furniture with sober elegance that has become icons.
- Portrait of the German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, who lived in the south of France during World War II where she painted nearly 1000 gouaches recounting her life.
- A documentary about Louise Bourgeois by director Camille Guichard. Bourgeois created art for more than fifty years and at the time of filming was still creating.
- The director shoots the film and gives instructions to the crew members.
- This homage to the scientific surrealism of the French documentary filmmaker Jean Painleve features several commentators on his work,who we see sitting at a table,surrounded by books,and philosophizing.
- A collection of forty 2-minute filmed portraits of some of the women artists from the 20th Century in the collection of the Centre Pompidou Museum of Modern Art, in Paris, on the occasion of the thematic retrospective elles@centrepompidou.
- An atmospheric profile affording a perceptive and illuminating glimpse into the world of award-winning Hungarian classical composer and pianist György Kurtág, a very private man usually shying away from discussing himself and his work.
- Between 1976 and 2003, Viswanadhan filmed a pentalogy devoted to the five elements of Indian cosmology (Sand, Water, Fire, Air, Ether) 'in the same way that an artist paints'. Ganga/Eau (1985) is the second entry in the series.
- Between 1976 and 2003, Viswanadhan filmed a pentalogy devoted to the five elements of Indian cosmology (Sand, Water, Fire, Air, Ether) 'in the same way that an artist paints'. Aakaash/Ether (2003) is the fifth entry in the series.
- The misadventures of a young french-american couple, in search of a home in Paris.
- On a video 3-monitor setup, more than 60 music video clips of the early 80s are analyzed and dissected to try to define a rhetoric of the genre, an exploration of the visual language used by musical artists to promote themselves.
- Michel Journiac organizes a real religious service and makes the participants receive communion with a black pudding made from his own blood.
- Docu-drama about Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, a.k.a. Cheik Nadro (or just Nadro), who after a divine vision in 1948, invented an alphabet for Bété, a West African language, to fight against the French colonization in his country.
- Presents sixteen 26-minute short films covering some of the most beautiful gardens in the world in their geographical and cultural environment, their history since antiquity, and the prospects for the future of garden design.
- From 1980 to 1983, Philippe Sollers performed readings of his book 'Paradise' from Paris to Jerusalem, via Rome, New York or Brussels; this is a live recording of a performance where he stands at the center of a multiple video screens set.
- The French word "pli" can refer to the fold of a dress or a diplomatic package, the wave of hair or a fold in the skin, a crease or a bad habit, etc. Apparently nothing could be more anecdotal. But let's observe them, they are everywhere.
- A CD-ROM featuring a collection of images of French body art artist Orlan's installations to date, first shown at Centre Georges Pompidou for "La Revue Parlée", in Paris, France.