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La Conférence des Femmes. Nairobi 85
La Conférence des Femmes. Nairobi 85
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After Mexico City 1975 and Copenhagen 1980, the United Nations chose Kenya for the 3rd World Conference on Women. Parallel to the official Conference of States is held in July 1985 the Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), in which 12,000 women participate. For ten days, on the University campus, they meet to discuss general and feminist political issues: peace, development, apartheid,...
Allers-venues
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Women meet for the summer in a Provençal house. In a rather idyllic nature, they get active, paint, do gymnastics, rest, sometimes dressed, sometimes not. They can also be seen inside the house, busy preparing meals and always in the company of animals; cats or chickens. In spite of the fast pace of the images and the wild soundtrack, the atmosphere is serene until the separation, when the holi...
Maso and Miso Go Boating
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The feminist video collective Les Insoumuses dissects and responds point by point in a humorous way to Bernard Pivot's special program with Françoise Giroud, Secretary of State for the Status of Women. "On December 30th 1975, after watching Bernard Pivot's programme on Antenne 2 entitled \*One more day and the year of the woman, phew! It'll be over\*, we felt the immense need to express our po...
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
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Drawing from the images of the last century, from those of Louis Lumière (1895) to those of Yann Le Masson (1973), this film is a subjective journey through the history of cinema, particularly documentary... Comolli willingly summons through quotation Robert Flaherty, Dziga Vertov, Jean Rouch, Mario Ruspoli, Robert Drew, Johan Van der Keuken, Maurice Pialat, Guy Debord, Joris Ivens, Luis Buñuel...
Oh La La Pauline
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Contemporary Paris. In Pauline’s kingdom, the king wears high heels, the queen swears like a trooper and the princess spits in the face of Prince Charming. A wreck of a documentary, rebellious, fascinating and heartrending with stories of love and hate, and family above all.
Finding Vivian Maier
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The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
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Associée à une œuvre cinématographique qui a profondément bouleversé notre rapport à l’Histoire, Ziva Postec est une artiste méconnue qui a voué près de six ans de sa vie au montage de "Shoah". Ce film-fleuve de Claude Lanzmann devait transformer à jamais notre compréhension de l’histoire de l’extermination des Juifs d’Europe pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En plongeant dans ses souvenirs ...
Miron: a Man Returned from Outside the World
Miron: a Man Returned from Outside the World
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« Tous les pays qui n’ont plus de légendes seront condamnés à mourir de froid. » C’est par la découverte de cette phrase que Gaston Miron comprend ce que doit être sa poésie : une façon de donner à son pays une légende au futur, un projet global. Véritable fresque esthétique alliant le portrait, le documentaire politique et le cinéma expérimental, "Miron : Un homme revenu d’en dehors du monde" ...
A Woman and Her Car
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31 décembre 2003. Lucie décide d’écrire une lettre à l’homme qui a abusé d’elle de l’âge de 8 ans à 12 ans et se résout à la lui porter en main propre, où qu’il soit.
Vies retrouvées
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In an old abandoned farmhouse in Ardèche, a young man finds around fifty letters along with a forgotten notebook. Back in Paris, he discovers they are a love correspondence between a young peasant woman and a captain during the First World War. The film recreates this love story.
A Fidai Film
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In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
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_Paradiso, XXXI, 108_ ironically questions our view of war and occupation through archival footage from the Israeli army in the 1960s and 1970s. Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari creates a montage revealing scenes where acts of war appear simultaneously comic, mundane, and surreal, inviting a deep reflection on the representation of violence and power.
A Robot of One's Own
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Marketing pitches between 1940 and 1970 lead to believe that new technologies facilitating household chores were responsible for women's emancipation in the 20th century. By reusing commercials and television archives, this retro futurist feminist essay questions this capitalist discourse in order to examine the relationship between women and technology.
A Story of One's Own
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Their names are Anne-Charlotte, Joohee, Céline, Niyongira and Mathieu. They are 25- to 52-year-old, hailing from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea, or Australia. These five individuals have something in common: they are adopted. Separated from their family and country from childhood, they grew up in French families. Their life stories and home movies tell an intimate, political story about...
The War at Home
_The War at Home_ examines the anti-war movement in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Vietnam War era. It focuses on the escalation of protests, especially at the University of Wisconsin, and the intense clashes between students and authorities. The film combines interviews with activists, veterans, and community leaders with archival footage to portray a decade of resistance and the war’s impact ...
Paris to Pyongyang
An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
Retracing Their Steps
By opening forgotten boxes in the Montreal Gay Archive Center, fragments of history from the LGBTQIA2S+ community are rediscovered. Among them are Michael and René, the first couple to marry in Canada, Linda and Catherine, two owners of the lesbian bar Le Kiev, and Kimura, multidisciplinary artist of diverse origins. The portraits of these diverse characters bear witness to the diversity of Mon...
Délire atta
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_Délire atta_ takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Image and sound engage in a dialogue of texture and transformation, revealing unexpected resonances within the archive and generating new possibilities from what might otherwise be seen as fixed or obsolete.
La Conférence des Femmes. Nairobi 85
La Conférence des Femmes. Nairobi 85
New product!Subscription access
After Mexico City 1975 and Copenhagen 1980, the United Nations chose Kenya for the 3rd World Conference on Women. Parallel to the official Conference of States is held in July 1985 the Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), in which 12,000 women participate. For ten days, on the University campus, they meet to discuss general and feminist political issues: peace, development, apartheid,...
Allers-venues
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Women meet for the summer in a Provençal house. In a rather idyllic nature, they get active, paint, do gymnastics, rest, sometimes dressed, sometimes not. They can also be seen inside the house, busy preparing meals and always in the company of animals; cats or chickens. In spite of the fast pace of the images and the wild soundtrack, the atmosphere is serene until the separation, when the holi...
Maso and Miso Go Boating
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The feminist video collective Les Insoumuses dissects and responds point by point in a humorous way to Bernard Pivot's special program with Françoise Giroud, Secretary of State for the Status of Women. "On December 30th 1975, after watching Bernard Pivot's programme on Antenne 2 entitled \*One more day and the year of the woman, phew! It'll be over\*, we felt the immense need to express our po...
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
New product!Subscription access
Drawing from the images of the last century, from those of Louis Lumière (1895) to those of Yann Le Masson (1973), this film is a subjective journey through the history of cinema, particularly documentary... Comolli willingly summons through quotation Robert Flaherty, Dziga Vertov, Jean Rouch, Mario Ruspoli, Robert Drew, Johan Van der Keuken, Maurice Pialat, Guy Debord, Joris Ivens, Luis Buñuel...
Oh La La Pauline
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Contemporary Paris. In Pauline’s kingdom, the king wears high heels, the queen swears like a trooper and the princess spits in the face of Prince Charming. A wreck of a documentary, rebellious, fascinating and heartrending with stories of love and hate, and family above all.
Finding Vivian Maier
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The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
New product!Subscription access
Associée à une œuvre cinématographique qui a profondément bouleversé notre rapport à l’Histoire, Ziva Postec est une artiste méconnue qui a voué près de six ans de sa vie au montage de "Shoah". Ce film-fleuve de Claude Lanzmann devait transformer à jamais notre compréhension de l’histoire de l’extermination des Juifs d’Europe pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En plongeant dans ses souvenirs ...
Miron: a Man Returned from Outside the World
Miron: a Man Returned from Outside the World
New product!Subscription access
« Tous les pays qui n’ont plus de légendes seront condamnés à mourir de froid. » C’est par la découverte de cette phrase que Gaston Miron comprend ce que doit être sa poésie : une façon de donner à son pays une légende au futur, un projet global. Véritable fresque esthétique alliant le portrait, le documentaire politique et le cinéma expérimental, "Miron : Un homme revenu d’en dehors du monde" ...
A Woman and Her Car
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31 décembre 2003. Lucie décide d’écrire une lettre à l’homme qui a abusé d’elle de l’âge de 8 ans à 12 ans et se résout à la lui porter en main propre, où qu’il soit.
Vies retrouvées
Subscription access
In an old abandoned farmhouse in Ardèche, a young man finds around fifty letters along with a forgotten notebook. Back in Paris, he discovers they are a love correspondence between a young peasant woman and a captain during the First World War. The film recreates this love story.
A Fidai Film
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In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
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_Paradiso, XXXI, 108_ ironically questions our view of war and occupation through archival footage from the Israeli army in the 1960s and 1970s. Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari creates a montage revealing scenes where acts of war appear simultaneously comic, mundane, and surreal, inviting a deep reflection on the representation of violence and power.
A Robot of One's Own
Subscription access
Marketing pitches between 1940 and 1970 lead to believe that new technologies facilitating household chores were responsible for women's emancipation in the 20th century. By reusing commercials and television archives, this retro futurist feminist essay questions this capitalist discourse in order to examine the relationship between women and technology.
A Story of One's Own
Subscription access
Their names are Anne-Charlotte, Joohee, Céline, Niyongira and Mathieu. They are 25- to 52-year-old, hailing from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea, or Australia. These five individuals have something in common: they are adopted. Separated from their family and country from childhood, they grew up in French families. Their life stories and home movies tell an intimate, political story about...
The War at Home
_The War at Home_ examines the anti-war movement in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Vietnam War era. It focuses on the escalation of protests, especially at the University of Wisconsin, and the intense clashes between students and authorities. The film combines interviews with activists, veterans, and community leaders with archival footage to portray a decade of resistance and the war’s impact ...
Paris to Pyongyang
An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
Retracing Their Steps
By opening forgotten boxes in the Montreal Gay Archive Center, fragments of history from the LGBTQIA2S+ community are rediscovered. Among them are Michael and René, the first couple to marry in Canada, Linda and Catherine, two owners of the lesbian bar Le Kiev, and Kimura, multidisciplinary artist of diverse origins. The portraits of these diverse characters bear witness to the diversity of Mon...
Délire atta
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_Délire atta_ takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Image and sound engage in a dialogue of texture and transformation, revealing unexpected resonances within the archive and generating new possibilities from what might otherwise be seen as fixed or obsolete.
