Labor

Now, Please Think About Yesterday

How are the questions about happiness designed and used as key tools to evaluate the quality of our life? The desire to shift how we read and interpret our socio-economic moment and the space we inhabit in light of emotional and behavioural parameters is evident at the political level. The Gallup World Poll, one of the foremost companies specializing in public opinion polls, is the source of th...

Untitled (The Things Around Us)

The video assembly _Untitled (The Things Around Us)_ presents a heterogeneous scenario of constituent elements—environments, conditions, objects, and figures—that play a distinct role in the conceptual processes and design methods of the Brussels-based architecture and urbanism agency 51N4E and the research agency Rural Urban Framework (RUF). Formulated as a catalogue of “things,” in the philos...

0004ngel

To support his mother in Mexico, Angel, a nude dancer, turns the web into his new stage.

Le temps qu'il fait

Nestor, Lei, Pierrette, Mohamed, Hafida, Marius, Marc, Galina, Genady, Mike and Lala: through their presence, \_Le temps qu’il fait\_ weaves a mosaic of stories in which dreams and disappointments, hopes and worries intertwine with the life that is before them. In counterpoint, there are these new landscapes of financial centers, abandoned industrial spaces and wasteland from which we hear the...

Jo

Jo is a night janitor at a school. Like many people in her line of work, her story often goes unnoticed. A woman of conviction, she owns her past "demons" for the two most important women in her life: her daughter Karine and… Diane Dufresne.

Clotheslines

_Clotheslines_ poetically documents the pragmatic, symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women's lives. The film presents an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life.

I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow

Patients arrive in the consultation room every day, broken, sick and scarred by life. In front of them sits a committed person who tries, without false hope, to repair bodies and psyches. At night, when the clinic doors are closed, the street outreach workers take to the streets to extend their support to all those unfortunate women who have chosen the streets as their home.

Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy

_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...

Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present

Marina 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...

Who Cares?

Medical students in their early twenties and experienced care workers take part in medical simulations. Faced with comedians portraying patients, they learn to speak the right words, reflect on their reactions, and build a caring practice. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible?

Metal and Melancholy

An endless ride from one taxi to another in 1990s Lima. So many people, so few ways to make a living in the country in crisis; each person tries their luck with a car on the verge of collapse. Life itself is there—condensed and somehow enchanted.

Nous sortirons de nos cuisines - Épisode 2 - Môman travaille pas, a trop d’ouvrage! (1974-75)

The UN declared 1975 the “International Women's Year,” ironically using the singular form in French (Année internationale de la femme). It was a pivotal time: more and more women were divorcing or entering the workforce. Yet a pregnancy was enough to justify dismissal, and maternity leave would not exist until 1979. The members of Théâtre des Cuisines returned to the stage with their second pla...