Arts
A selection of films on art that shakes up preconceived ideas. It extends the pleasure of contemplation or enhances the experience of a piece. By juxtaposing mythical films and recent ones, we offer the sharpest views on the world of art … in all its forms.
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Language of Birds
Duration: 1h48
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Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, _Language of Birds_ explores the virtues of translation and the desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, the film observes in a curious and sensitive way the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
Losing Ground
Duration: 44 minutes
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In February 2021, Myanmar wakes up to the sounds of a military coup. The hopes of an entire generation are extinguished. Protests are held, but the dictatorship is too powerful: arrests, imprisonments and threats of execution ensue. The capital becomes a large open-air prison, but a few anonymous voices still have the strength to cry out.
Living Here
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_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
Symphony of the Ursus Factory
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The immense Polish tractor factory Ursus was dismantled during the fall of the Soviet Union. With the active complicity of the men and women who worked there, Jaśmina Wójcik undertook the somewhat crazy project of a production that draws inspiration from musical comedy, Russian cinema, and opera.
Lucebert, Time and Farewell
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Johan van der Keuken has always been fascinated by the art of Lucebert (1924-1994), one of the most influential poets in Dutch literature and a visual artist. He dedicated three short films to him in 1962, 1967 and 1994. This triptych has been brought together in a single film, the last part of which was shot in Lucebert's studio shortly after his death.
Neighbour Abdi
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How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they both embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throug...
The Years
A woman gives voice to Annie Ernaux’s text _The Years_, sharing these fragments of a life. Family-life scenes describe the passage of time where each gesture and every face become the expression of a confession that’s both a personal revelation and a collective narrative.
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
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Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Duration: 23 minutesSubscription access
Marguerite Duras is interviewed at her home about the photographic illustration of her novel _Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein_. She reads excerpts from the book.
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
And the Dogs Were Quiet
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_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Duration: 52 minutesPortrait of the Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror and her political struggle for the freedom of African peoples. A committed filmmaker, she has always believed in the importance of cinema to depict political and social changes and struggles for independence. Having gained real-life experience during the bloody conflicts stemming from colonialism, she expresses herself through cinema, claimi...
Ida's Dream
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Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Duration: 3h38What if the danses macabres, beyond their grimacing folklore, staged the death of the Middle Ages and the invention, in the middle of the 15th century, of modern Europe? It is the hypothesis of writer Jean Louis Schefer. An investigation in the form of a conversation and walks between Paris and Portugal, with directors Rita Azevedo Gomez and Pierre Léon. A six-handed film.
Anaïs Nin
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In this interview with Fernand Seguin, the famous writer reveals the main aspects of her personality by reflecting on the different stages of her life. Anaïs Nin recounts her life and the simultaneous process of writing her journal for fifty years. She talks about her youth, her complicated relationship with her father, and her pivotal encounters with many famous artists such as Henry Miller an...
Portrait d'Edgar Varèse
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Interview with the Quebecois poet, novelist, and essayist Fernand Ouellette about his book on musician Edgar Varèse. He explains how he came to write the book, talks about his love for Varèse, the role of the machine in his music, the audience's reception... All interspersed with rare excerpts from interviews with Edgar Varèse.
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
Duration: 1h41Subscription access
A poet struggling to cope with society seeks refuge in an institution where therapists turn him into a test subject. He resists. They persist. He succumbs to the stupidity, cruelty, and madness of men. A teletheatre adaptation of Claude Gauvreau's cult play _La charge de l'orignal épormyable_.
Reminiscences
This short dance film brings to the screen three duets that are both sensual and brutal. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic sensations of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates, which sediment in us as so many emotional vestiges.
Language of Birds
Duration: 1h48
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Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, _Language of Birds_ explores the virtues of translation and the desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, the film observes in a curious and sensitive way the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
Losing Ground
Duration: 44 minutes
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In February 2021, Myanmar wakes up to the sounds of a military coup. The hopes of an entire generation are extinguished. Protests are held, but the dictatorship is too powerful: arrests, imprisonments and threats of execution ensue. The capital becomes a large open-air prison, but a few anonymous voices still have the strength to cry out.
Living Here
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_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
Symphony of the Ursus Factory
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The immense Polish tractor factory Ursus was dismantled during the fall of the Soviet Union. With the active complicity of the men and women who worked there, Jaśmina Wójcik undertook the somewhat crazy project of a production that draws inspiration from musical comedy, Russian cinema, and opera.
Lucebert, Time and Farewell
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Johan van der Keuken has always been fascinated by the art of Lucebert (1924-1994), one of the most influential poets in Dutch literature and a visual artist. He dedicated three short films to him in 1962, 1967 and 1994. This triptych has been brought together in a single film, the last part of which was shot in Lucebert's studio shortly after his death.
Neighbour Abdi
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How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they both embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throug...
The Years
A woman gives voice to Annie Ernaux’s text _The Years_, sharing these fragments of a life. Family-life scenes describe the passage of time where each gesture and every face become the expression of a confession that’s both a personal revelation and a collective narrative.
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
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Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Duration: 23 minutesSubscription access
Marguerite Duras is interviewed at her home about the photographic illustration of her novel _Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein_. She reads excerpts from the book.
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
And the Dogs Were Quiet
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_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Duration: 52 minutesPortrait of the Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror and her political struggle for the freedom of African peoples. A committed filmmaker, she has always believed in the importance of cinema to depict political and social changes and struggles for independence. Having gained real-life experience during the bloody conflicts stemming from colonialism, she expresses herself through cinema, claimi...
Ida's Dream
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Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Duration: 3h38What if the danses macabres, beyond their grimacing folklore, staged the death of the Middle Ages and the invention, in the middle of the 15th century, of modern Europe? It is the hypothesis of writer Jean Louis Schefer. An investigation in the form of a conversation and walks between Paris and Portugal, with directors Rita Azevedo Gomez and Pierre Léon. A six-handed film.
Anaïs Nin
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In this interview with Fernand Seguin, the famous writer reveals the main aspects of her personality by reflecting on the different stages of her life. Anaïs Nin recounts her life and the simultaneous process of writing her journal for fifty years. She talks about her youth, her complicated relationship with her father, and her pivotal encounters with many famous artists such as Henry Miller an...
Portrait d'Edgar Varèse
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Interview with the Quebecois poet, novelist, and essayist Fernand Ouellette about his book on musician Edgar Varèse. He explains how he came to write the book, talks about his love for Varèse, the role of the machine in his music, the audience's reception... All interspersed with rare excerpts from interviews with Edgar Varèse.
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
Duration: 1h41Subscription access
A poet struggling to cope with society seeks refuge in an institution where therapists turn him into a test subject. He resists. They persist. He succumbs to the stupidity, cruelty, and madness of men. A teletheatre adaptation of Claude Gauvreau's cult play _La charge de l'orignal épormyable_.
Reminiscences
This short dance film brings to the screen three duets that are both sensual and brutal. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic sensations of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates, which sediment in us as so many emotional vestiges.
