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Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman With Her Camera
Subscription accessLe parcours de vie de Carole de Kalbermatten, Valaisanne de bonne famille qui, à 21 ans, gagne Paris, où elle rencontre Paul Roussopoulos. Le film a pour centre son travail de pionnière de la vidéo et pour périphérie son couple, l'amour comme source d'énergie permanente, une incessante complicité créatrice, la politique, la découverte des premiers outils de la vidéo, Jean Genet, la Palestine...
Legends, The Living Art of Risqué
Subscription accessA tribute to the North American pioneers of striptease and the golden age of burlesque coupled with a reflection on sex and gender. Today's elderly women from modest families pose for photographer Marie Baronnet in their work clothes. They evoke their life on the roads, the stage, the struggle for their rights, the transformation of their bodies. These archival images give an idea of their l...
Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, haunted by a stay in the Fukushima region, produces an engaged video poetry dealing with the risks and disasters of civil and military nuclear power. She uses the character she has created for herself, the "lady butterfly", as a vector and makes it coincide with an iconic character, Psyche, who serves as her guide, in a poetic and ironic way. A testimony and a solitary,...
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...
Between February and June 1991, filmmakers Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin exchanged several video letters (four by Kramer, three by Dwoskin) shot in Hi-8. These _Videoletters_ freed them from the formalities that burdened their work and reflections at the time. Through this exchange, they began to learn and observe anew.
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks the exploration of their lives, the city and the ways art reflects and shapes the world.
Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy
Subscription access_Leaning into the Wind_ follows Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer’s exquisite film illuminates...
Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs, they have developed artistic practices that draw on their colourful imaginations and Icelandic roots. Their exploration leads them to journey to ...
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Subscription accessDrawing 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...
With _Antoine_, filmmaker Laura Bari treats us to a sensitive portrait of a six-year-old boy, one like any other, except that he’s blind. We follow Antoine in his classes, playing with friends, skating, and visiting family. We accompany him on imaginary excursions as a detective, listen to him as a radio host, and sit shotgun as he drives his parents’ car. Antoine allows us access back into chi...
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig, A Story
Subscription accessThis film is a tribute to Delphine Seyrig and her fascination with the book _Calamity Jane's Letters to her Daughter_. These letters, which are letters from a mother to her absent daughter, became an emblem of feminism in the late 1970s. Seyrig had planned to make a film about Calamity Jane in order to reveal all of the sensitivity she expressed, as well as her view on life, shared in these let...
In \*Face Value\*, everything revolves around the face and sight: the desire to be seen, the fear of being seen, the inability to see oneself, the fear and the desire to see others.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Subscription accessComposed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community in Alabama’s Black Belt, \_Hale County This Morning, This Evening\_ offers an emotive impression of the Historic South. Daniel Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Quincy Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son. Creating a poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives, Ra...
Wind instruments set off from Europe on a victorious pilgrimage to all corners of the globe accompanied by representatives of the army, commerce and the church. They gradually conquered the most distant lands and captivated exotic nations. Based on a scientific study, the film uses musical instruments to capture the fusion of primitive and received cultures.
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
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...
Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman With Her Camera
Subscription accessLe parcours de vie de Carole de Kalbermatten, Valaisanne de bonne famille qui, à 21 ans, gagne Paris, où elle rencontre Paul Roussopoulos. Le film a pour centre son travail de pionnière de la vidéo et pour périphérie son couple, l'amour comme source d'énergie permanente, une incessante complicité créatrice, la politique, la découverte des premiers outils de la vidéo, Jean Genet, la Palestine...
Legends, The Living Art of Risqué
Subscription accessA tribute to the North American pioneers of striptease and the golden age of burlesque coupled with a reflection on sex and gender. Today's elderly women from modest families pose for photographer Marie Baronnet in their work clothes. They evoke their life on the roads, the stage, the struggle for their rights, the transformation of their bodies. These archival images give an idea of their l...
Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, haunted by a stay in the Fukushima region, produces an engaged video poetry dealing with the risks and disasters of civil and military nuclear power. She uses the character she has created for herself, the "lady butterfly", as a vector and makes it coincide with an iconic character, Psyche, who serves as her guide, in a poetic and ironic way. A testimony and a solitary,...
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...
Between February and June 1991, filmmakers Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin exchanged several video letters (four by Kramer, three by Dwoskin) shot in Hi-8. These _Videoletters_ freed them from the formalities that burdened their work and reflections at the time. Through this exchange, they began to learn and observe anew.
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks the exploration of their lives, the city and the ways art reflects and shapes the world.
Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy
Subscription access_Leaning into the Wind_ follows Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer’s exquisite film illuminates...
Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs, they have developed artistic practices that draw on their colourful imaginations and Icelandic roots. Their exploration leads them to journey to ...
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Subscription accessDrawing 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...
With _Antoine_, filmmaker Laura Bari treats us to a sensitive portrait of a six-year-old boy, one like any other, except that he’s blind. We follow Antoine in his classes, playing with friends, skating, and visiting family. We accompany him on imaginary excursions as a detective, listen to him as a radio host, and sit shotgun as he drives his parents’ car. Antoine allows us access back into chi...
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig, A Story
Subscription accessThis film is a tribute to Delphine Seyrig and her fascination with the book _Calamity Jane's Letters to her Daughter_. These letters, which are letters from a mother to her absent daughter, became an emblem of feminism in the late 1970s. Seyrig had planned to make a film about Calamity Jane in order to reveal all of the sensitivity she expressed, as well as her view on life, shared in these let...
In \*Face Value\*, everything revolves around the face and sight: the desire to be seen, the fear of being seen, the inability to see oneself, the fear and the desire to see others.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Subscription accessComposed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community in Alabama’s Black Belt, \_Hale County This Morning, This Evening\_ offers an emotive impression of the Historic South. Daniel Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Quincy Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son. Creating a poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives, Ra...
Wind instruments set off from Europe on a victorious pilgrimage to all corners of the globe accompanied by representatives of the army, commerce and the church. They gradually conquered the most distant lands and captivated exotic nations. Based on a scientific study, the film uses musical instruments to capture the fusion of primitive and received cultures.
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
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...