Real Talks
Documentary films centered on cerebration and contemporary research, in the form of interviews with scholars, philosophers and artists whose work shed light on our times.
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Les lycéens ont la parole
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Two months before May 68, the program _Dim Dam Dom_ focuses on the growing revolt among students. Romain Goupil, 16 years old, expelled from school, discusses with Marguerite Duras. Why do we engage in politics at such a young age? Does politics prevent you from working well? What is politics?
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.
The Law in These Parts
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_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
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.
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Duration: 22 minutesPapers, photographs, sketches, tubes of paint and canvases litter Francis Bacon's London studio. It's a place where friends, lovers and eccentric figures pass through, haunting his canvases after a mysterious creative alchemy. Bacon explains in French his carnal relationship with his canvases, the painters who inspire him, and his relationship with alcohol, violence and death. He talks about hi...
Rome is Burning : Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Rome is Burning : Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Duration: 1h46Subscription access
Is subversion soluble in cinema? Are militant films effective? How do you shoot outside the "system"? American "underground" filmmaker Shirley Clarke answers these questions in 1968.
Thank God I'm a Lesbian
Twelve Canadian, American and French lesbians of various ages, colours and cultures talk candidly and humorously about the many aspects of the lesbian identity. Far from being dogmatic, this documentary is an upbeat series of standpoints.
Six fois deux, sur et sous la communication - Épisode 2b : Jean-Luc
Six fois deux, sur et sous la communication - Épisode 2b : Jean-Luc
Duration: 48 minutesSubscription access
Facing the camera, Godard discusses with a journalist from _Libération_ (off-screen, from behind) work, cinema, and television. Texts scroll across the screen. Little by little, Godard tries to explain what he is trying to communicate by creating this series and defining its limits.
The Monopoly of Violence
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities in France, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with ever-increasing violence. In _The Monopoly of Violence_, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
Jean Carignan, violoneux
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A man of the people and a cab driver, Jean Carignan is first and foremost one of the world's greatest violinists. Under his fingers, the reels or "rigodons" appear as complex and erudite music, calling for a virtuosity worthy of Paganini; a musical genre transmitted "by ear" and still popular, whose "greats" are called Skinner, Coleman, and Allard. Jean Carignan performs a considerable repertoi...
Too Much is Enough
_Too Much Is Enough_ showcases filmmaker Gilles Groulx (1931-1994), known as "the restless lynx.” One of Quebec's most influential and original filmmakers, he was certainly the most politicized and censored. In 1981, a car accident caused a head injury that isolated him from his peers. Groulx was soon forgotten from cinema landscape. From 1989 to 1994, Richard Brouillette spoke regularly with G...
No Man's Land
Paulo de Figueiredo, a 66-year-old Portuguese mercenary, talks about his past and gives a personal and informal account of the conflicts he has witnessed in various countries and continents, at the limits of two worlds: one of power and one of revolutions.
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard
Duration: 23 minutesSubscription access
An interview with Jean-Luc Godard filmed for French television in 1969. In a post-May 68 context, a (political) lesson of cinema never broadcast and preserved in its rushes state.
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Duration: 1h50Subscription 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...
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Duration: 52 minutesIn 2008, with the release of her book *The Years*, Annie Ernaux was recognized by an almost unanimous press as one of the major writers of our time. For her, each thing, each place or each event corresponds to a period of our life, which we transmit. A life, for the writer, is a unique experience, but also a common place. For her, it is never a question of introspection, nor of a narcissistic a...
Composing Worlds
From where can we rethink our world to transform it? Philippe Descola has devoted his life as an anthropologist to studying how humans compose their worlds; starting in the Amazon, he turned his field of research towards Europe, in order to understand how we, the moderns, could have made the earth less and less habitable. The film takes him to embody his ideas, in dialogue with the non-humans a...
Susan Sontag
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In 1976, the CBC television show _Femme d'aujourd'hui_ interviewed the American writer and intellectual Susan Sontag (1933-2004), who was then living in Paris. This leading figure of the Western thought in the second half of the 20th century eloquently presented her thoughts and the path that led her to feminism.
Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
A portrait of one of the leading theoreticians of gender studies, a discipline taught in American universities and dealing with sex and gender as a social and historical issue rather than a biological and natural one. Professor of comparative literature and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Judith Butler is a pioneering intellectual, figurehead of the gay and lesbian movements...
Penser le paysage - Gilles Clément
Penser le paysage - Gilles Clément
Gilles Clément is a gardener who initiated a conceptual and practical philosophy which radically transformed the contemporary vision of the landscape. Carried by a specific vocabulary which assigns the gardener a strong role in the thought of the world, his work has been experienced in his garden located in La Vallée, in the Creuse, since 1977. His description of the changing world, both rich a...
Les lycéens ont la parole
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Two months before May 68, the program _Dim Dam Dom_ focuses on the growing revolt among students. Romain Goupil, 16 years old, expelled from school, discusses with Marguerite Duras. Why do we engage in politics at such a young age? Does politics prevent you from working well? What is politics?
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.
The Law in These Parts
Subscription access
_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
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.
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Duration: 22 minutesPapers, photographs, sketches, tubes of paint and canvases litter Francis Bacon's London studio. It's a place where friends, lovers and eccentric figures pass through, haunting his canvases after a mysterious creative alchemy. Bacon explains in French his carnal relationship with his canvases, the painters who inspire him, and his relationship with alcohol, violence and death. He talks about hi...
Rome is Burning : Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Rome is Burning : Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Duration: 1h46Subscription access
Is subversion soluble in cinema? Are militant films effective? How do you shoot outside the "system"? American "underground" filmmaker Shirley Clarke answers these questions in 1968.
Thank God I'm a Lesbian
Twelve Canadian, American and French lesbians of various ages, colours and cultures talk candidly and humorously about the many aspects of the lesbian identity. Far from being dogmatic, this documentary is an upbeat series of standpoints.
Six fois deux, sur et sous la communication - Épisode 2b : Jean-Luc
Six fois deux, sur et sous la communication - Épisode 2b : Jean-Luc
Duration: 48 minutesSubscription access
Facing the camera, Godard discusses with a journalist from _Libération_ (off-screen, from behind) work, cinema, and television. Texts scroll across the screen. Little by little, Godard tries to explain what he is trying to communicate by creating this series and defining its limits.
The Monopoly of Violence
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities in France, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with ever-increasing violence. In _The Monopoly of Violence_, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
Jean Carignan, violoneux
Subscription access
A man of the people and a cab driver, Jean Carignan is first and foremost one of the world's greatest violinists. Under his fingers, the reels or "rigodons" appear as complex and erudite music, calling for a virtuosity worthy of Paganini; a musical genre transmitted "by ear" and still popular, whose "greats" are called Skinner, Coleman, and Allard. Jean Carignan performs a considerable repertoi...
Too Much is Enough
_Too Much Is Enough_ showcases filmmaker Gilles Groulx (1931-1994), known as "the restless lynx.” One of Quebec's most influential and original filmmakers, he was certainly the most politicized and censored. In 1981, a car accident caused a head injury that isolated him from his peers. Groulx was soon forgotten from cinema landscape. From 1989 to 1994, Richard Brouillette spoke regularly with G...
No Man's Land
Paulo de Figueiredo, a 66-year-old Portuguese mercenary, talks about his past and gives a personal and informal account of the conflicts he has witnessed in various countries and continents, at the limits of two worlds: one of power and one of revolutions.
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard
Duration: 23 minutesSubscription access
An interview with Jean-Luc Godard filmed for French television in 1969. In a post-May 68 context, a (political) lesson of cinema never broadcast and preserved in its rushes state.
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Duration: 1h50Subscription 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...
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Duration: 52 minutesIn 2008, with the release of her book *The Years*, Annie Ernaux was recognized by an almost unanimous press as one of the major writers of our time. For her, each thing, each place or each event corresponds to a period of our life, which we transmit. A life, for the writer, is a unique experience, but also a common place. For her, it is never a question of introspection, nor of a narcissistic a...
Composing Worlds
From where can we rethink our world to transform it? Philippe Descola has devoted his life as an anthropologist to studying how humans compose their worlds; starting in the Amazon, he turned his field of research towards Europe, in order to understand how we, the moderns, could have made the earth less and less habitable. The film takes him to embody his ideas, in dialogue with the non-humans a...
Susan Sontag
Subscription access
In 1976, the CBC television show _Femme d'aujourd'hui_ interviewed the American writer and intellectual Susan Sontag (1933-2004), who was then living in Paris. This leading figure of the Western thought in the second half of the 20th century eloquently presented her thoughts and the path that led her to feminism.
Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
A portrait of one of the leading theoreticians of gender studies, a discipline taught in American universities and dealing with sex and gender as a social and historical issue rather than a biological and natural one. Professor of comparative literature and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Judith Butler is a pioneering intellectual, figurehead of the gay and lesbian movements...
Penser le paysage - Gilles Clément
Penser le paysage - Gilles Clément
Gilles Clément is a gardener who initiated a conceptual and practical philosophy which radically transformed the contemporary vision of the landscape. Carried by a specific vocabulary which assigns the gardener a strong role in the thought of the world, his work has been experienced in his garden located in La Vallée, in the Creuse, since 1977. His description of the changing world, both rich a...
