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- Visuals paradoxes, logical paradoxes, paradoxes of the choice and the prediction... Things, people and behaviors are not inevitably what we think they are. Let's not act ab irato (under the influence of anger, without reflection). Let's not trust our senses, the common sense, and our laziness. Let's strain ourselves to think, indeed to love (on this matter, there is no risk to make too much). note : the film is blue at the beginning, yellow at the end, this is deliberate (how does a grain of sand added to another make a beach ?)
- In the Shadow of the drawer - Eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease Chagas disease, a typical case of vector disease ravaging the entire South American continent. Refusing to stick only to a bio medical approach, a multidisciplinary research team has developed a comprehensive method of studying this disease. This is for her to identify and assess the importance of all parameters involved in the process of infection to define the appearance of risk areas and understand the conditions under which the triatomine vector of the disease, even its natural wild habitat to settle into homes and transmit the disease to humans. The film offers a series of preventive actions and a reflection on the responsibility of man in his actions to amend the dynamic equilibrium of ecosystems.
- Excavations at the Pataud shelter and the surrounding sites in the late 50s by the American professor Hallam Movius can trace human evolution over the past 15 000 years of occupation, between 35 000 and 18 000 years Our era. This constant human settlement, from Neanderthals to Magdalenians, tracks the progress in the lithic and bone industry and the birth of an artistic expression that will find its fulfillment in the Magdalenian. real views of the site, tools, drawings, animations and drawings by reconstruction of habitats and landscapes.
- As reality is uncertain, one must take care of oneself and of other peoples (1) The Chastellers are on holiday. Last year, they nearly got divorced -strangely enough- but they didn't. Time goes by, the holiday arrives, the sun shines and make them talk. They talk about the divorce, about the father's job -he is an executive in the Arms industry. Arianne, the oldest sister who is sixteen, leaves the family for the day in a fit of anger. Jonathan Gallagnuck would like to know more about his father who was Francois Chasteller's partner twenty years ago -They were both arms dealers in Africa. He thinks that Francois can tell him more about the circumstances of his father's death. He gets all worked up. He gets hit on the head with a hammer. (1) : usually, one is never careful enough so that we all end up dead or hurt or hurting others which is pretty stupid.
- Nutrition in poor countries, is essentially based on the consumption of legumes, such as beans, whose rich in protein and vitamins can compensate for the lack of animal protein. Legumes are unfortunately decimated by pests such as weevils, as insecticides do not reach the favorable stage of development. The film shows how important it is to know in detail the life cycle of weevils to seek effective means of control.
- When it comes to circulate a liquid at high speed in low pressure conditions, there is vapor bubbles formations, a virtually inescapable phenomenon that erodes facilities, limits the performance and causes noise and very annoying vibration. EDF, the Directorate General for Armaments, some industry leading research together to address an often forgotten cavitation by manufacturers when designing a facility ..
- It is easier to hurt children rather than astonish them. Francois Chasteller is coming to take his wife to the final procedure of their divorce. He is to take her home on the same day in the afternoon. The kids can look after themselves. But the parents shall come back only in the morning of the next day...
- A rich citizen of Capsa (on the Barbary Coast) had among his children a graceful and amiable daughter named Alibech, who was not baptized. Many Christian inhabitants praised their faith and the service of God in front of her. Alibech asked one of them how to serve God well. She was told that His best servants where the ones who fled from the world and particularly those who had sought retirement on the scorched mountain of the Thebaide. The girl was highly excited, and without telling anybody, she started on her journey the next day in great secrecy
- Lost in the middle of the Southern Ocean, under the 40th roaring, the Crozet archipelago is home to three million king penguins, half of the world population. Unlike most high sea birds, this species is expanding. Yet all stages of the reproductive cycle are as many events to overcome. The film follows these steps: research and recognition of a partner from thousands of similar spot shortages, weather, predators, lack of food in winter, considerable mortality in chicks. Even in these most isolated islands in the world, the answer lies in the imbalance caused by man and king penguins are only regain their original numbers.
- A mime performing in the street notices a young girl pass without so much as a look of curiosity. The next day, when the girl again passes, the mime abandons. his act to follow her. The girl is blind. Like a sleepwalker, she is returning home. Day after day the mime looks for a way to make contact. He gains entry into her apartment without her being aware. Here he is witness to the girl's se lay-to-day existence especially her effusion of despair. Then one day a tear escapes from the mime's cheek to fall on the face of the blind.
- Antoine, a lonely and grumbling chap, lives in a small flat inside a more or less abandoned house in the rear of some outskirts; being slightly disabled -as a child he got accidentally blown up on a war mine-, he cuts himself of from the rest of the world, the only relationship and communication he holds are with his canary bird. Alain, about 30 years old, has no sentimental, professional or family ties. Each of them stays in his own area, one being centrifugal, the other one being centripetal. Chance, or destiny, as may be, will provoke the meeting of these two somewhat special characters. Then, new relations will grow from mere observation to kind affection, from help to curiosity, from friend-ship to suspicion, from empathy to exasperation, and from comprehension to denial. Up to the point where, according to the laws of nature, or mere wickedness -as may be- they come to stupidly destroy each other. It is this history of relations, as they are lived through and supported by Antoine and Alain, in Antoine's house and everywhere around, that the film endeavors to show.
- Microscopic observation of original etchings and engravings produced experimentally to demonstrate that the sequences of lines in Azilian pebbles (10 000-8 000 BC. J.C.) were made very quickly and by the same tool. This refutes the hypothesis that they are among other calendars. These objects seem rather have symbolic meaning inherited from the cultural world of the Upper Paleolithic.
- Jean-Luc, his sister Paulette, Marc and Theodore, run out of gas while driving in a forest. In the morning, Jean-Luc and Marc go in quest of food and meet three natural girls: Strength, Desire, and Fear.
- Despite its familiarity, the concept of time raises many difficulties whose number grows as we attempt to analyze it. For example, it is very difficult to define the time. However, physicists have managed to make time an operative concept. - What time is? Time is first an indefinable word. - Does time exist? What kind of existence we attribute to him? - How to compare, oppose, objective time and subjective time? - The time he runs evenly? Compared to What does it flows? Has it an original? Will it end? Is it reversible? Is it cyclical or linear? - The arrow of time, second law of thermodynamics, entropy - The relativistic revolution duration are not absolute, the concept of simultaneity between two events loses its meaning. - General relativity, gravitation theory: space-time couples to matter and energy. Problem of the origin of time. - The fact of operating a measurement on a quantum system he introduced irreversibility? - Can the particles back in time?
- Hilar Combur, accounting for Nogret-Chardaud Inc., 51 years; has lived for 30 years with Germaine, his wife. He has often a cold; however, he never missed a day of work. He is convinced that, maybe, sometimes, it should stop some things, definitely. N.B. can be observed, for example, on the trousers of the right union is of the same color that the tag in front of which, Hilar walks, the morning.