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Pierre, a young man in his thirties, grew up with his two brothers in a city in the suburbs of Paris. He still lives there today with his wife, Deborah. His everyday life is divided between a job where he is exploited, discussions with his friends and brothers, family meals and unpreventable altercations with the cops.

In a succession of stylish shots, from an English garden to a San Francisco penthouse, we witness the first encounter between Catherine and Charles, as something in the air is preceding the entrance of the woman: iconic perfume Chanel No.5.

From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and saved most of it on VHS tapes, making a collection of 601 episodes documenting his everyday life in the East-Village, as well as following some flamboyant local icons like RuPaul, Sylvia Miles, and Phoebe Legere.

Produced for the French Pavilion at the Universal Exposition of Seville, Expo '92, the 6 minute short IMAX film features captivating helicopter shots and time-lapse sequences from Paris to Seville. It was screened from Monday, April 20 to Monday, October 12, 1992 on a 500 m2 IMAX screen at the bottom of the 17-metre deep 'image well' at the heart of the French Pavilion on La Isla de La Cartuja (Cartuja Island), Seville.

A conversation in 3 episodes between French novelist, art theorist and former Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux, TV personality Pierre Dumayet and American Professor Walter G. Langlois about themes connecting art from Antiquity to our time, filmed in June and July 1973 at Malraux's home in France. Followed by a fourth episode consisting of an interview conducted by Professor André Parrot about Sumerian civilization and Malraux's "Imaginary Museum", and filmed on May 23, 1973 at the Maeght Foundation.

Four songs from the LP "Keep Your Distance" (1987) are performed by the band Curiosity Killed the Cat: "Down To Earth", "Ordinary Day", "Misfit" and "Free". This compilation is mostly famous for the band's collaboration with Andy Warhol for the video of their 1986 hit single "Misfit". The music video for this song was indeed co-directed by Andy Warhol and he even had a cameo in it. Andy Warhol was allegedly a fan of the band and the video turned out to be his final directing effort.

A digital public artwork and computer-generated animation of urban circulation patterns which is projected on city sidewalks or concrete floor. The video allows the viewer to hover above images of virtual figures and moving masses of pedestrians.

Réal Benoît and André de Tonnancour travel to Haiti to meet local native artists and show their work. They also visit the Centre d'Art, which was inaugurated in 1944 by DeWitt Peters, an American painter who first came to Haiti as part of an English teaching project but was surprised to find that there were no art galleries in the country.

This three-channel video installation revisits the saga of young Cuban boy Elián González, who became caught up in a bitter custody battle between the U.S. and Cuba in 1999. The boy's personal and evocative story is echoing Cuba's own political history via archive footage and slogans of the Castro-led Revolution.

A conversation in 3 episodes between French novelist, art theorist and former Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux, TV personality Pierre Dumayet and American Professor Walter G. Langlois about themes connecting art from Antiquity to our time, filmed in June and July 1973 at Malraux's home in France. Followed by a fourth episode consisting of an interview conducted by Professor André Parrot about Sumerian civilization and Malraux's "Imaginary Museum", and filmed on May 23, 1973 at the Maeght Foundation.

A pastiche of a scene from the movie Gilda (1946), when the woman whispers to her lover: "Hate is a very exciting emotion, haven't you noticed, very exciting. I hate you too, I hate you so much I think I'm gonna die from it. Darling!"

The film takes us to a touristic tour of Provence, the famous geographical region and historical province of South Eastern France, with its breathtaking landscapes and its stately monuments, and lingers on scenes of outdoor markets and agricultural work. The film won the First Prize at the "Concours du film amateur de la Direction générale du tourisme" in 1957.

The video-art series features one-minute sequences on a single posture or gesture: daily gesture, working gesture, unexpected gesture, gesture of rebellion, gesture of love, etc. Only 6 one-minute films were completed despite the fact that the complete series was originally given a 20-episode order.

A short video showing the preparation of the exhibition "Beaurin Domercq / Seven Images", a special event displaying a unique series of seven 180 x 240 cm digital prints presented on the facade of the Cartier Foundation's building, in Paris, in 1999.

A short film directed in 1984 by Dutch artist Peter Klashorst (as Peter van de Klashorst), shot by Robert Klaasman, and conducted while Mapplethorpe is trying different light settings to take Klashorst's portrait. During the shooting, Mapplethorpe explains how he would like to build a film studio in his SoHo loft to shoot adult features.

Fifteen short films, directed by Ana Mendieta in the mid-70's, all of which have been transferred from their original Super-8 loops support to digital media, are shown simultaneously. Nine of them, very rare and recently restored, were never screened theatrically since their creation.

A chronological collection of rare or previously unreleased Josephine Baker short films, early movie excerpts, newsreels, and outtakes, including alternate performance recordings, from 1926 to 1939. This 15-minute feature shows rarely seen footage or outtakes from "The Fireman of the Folies Bergeres" (1928), "Gay Colored Star Steps Out in Paris, No. 18" (1931), and newsreels from the French Army (excerpts from "WWII Newsreel No. 7, November 11th, 1939") where Mrs. Baker is seen performing a song and distributing cigarettes to the troops.

Medusa is a found-footage short film mixing elements from a previous film (also titled 'Medusa') by Aura Satz, nested in a montage of found-TV feedback loops. The film was part of the 'Music for Silents' multimedia concerts performed by artist and musician Steven Severin, a former bassist of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Music and experimental film are intrinsically linked and connected to the surrounding environment which displays multiple screens for video projections, lighting, performance art, and mechanical experiments, featuring composer and instrument inventor Jean-François Laporte and musician Martin Ouellet.

A re-cut version of the original footage from the iconic short movie "Tables Turned on the Gardener" (1895), originally shot by the Lumiere Brothers, produced in 1995 and screened in French cinemas to celebrate the film industry's centenary year.

Produced for the French Pavilion at the Universal Exposition of Seville, Expo '92, the movie tells the story of a fundamental particle born just after the Big Bang, a photon which travels through the cosmological evolution. It was screened from Monday, April 20 to Monday, October 12, 1992 on a 500 m2 IMAX screen at the bottom of the 17-metre deep 'image well' at the heart of the French Pavilion on La Isla de La Cartuja (Cartuja Island), Seville.

Venus is a found-footage short film consisting of a montage of edited excerpts from 'Venus on the Half-Shell' and 'The Tide' (from 'Immoral Tales'), both originally directed by Walerian Borowczyk, which results in hallucinogenic and colorful experimental loops. The film was part of 'Music for Silents' performances by artist and musician Steven Severin.

Produced for the French Pavilion at the Universal Exposition of Seville, Expo '92, 'Gaia' is the first IMAX computer-generated animation European film. It is designed to honor the pioneers in astronomy and space exploration. It was screened from Monday, April 20 to Monday, October 12, 1992 in the 17-metre deep 'image well' at the heart of the French Pavilion on La Isla de La Cartuja (Cartuja Island), Seville.

A comprehensive video art program featuring 26 works by seven contemporary Cuban visual artists and experimental directors, curated by Vladimir Gonzalez Portales, and celebrating the 50th anniversary of video art as a major and pioneering medium of expression in Cuba.

Produced by France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this documentary short contains 4 short subjects: "Arman" (dir: Jacques Scandelari), "L'Observatoire de Haute-Provence du CNRS" (dir: Max Gérard), "L'Arbre de vie automate de Jacques Monestier" (dir: Clovis Prévost and Jimmy Glasberg), and "Jeanne Moreau" (dir: Renaud de Dancourt). It features different aspects of France's regional, cultural and artistic life as well as notable events from the year 1976.