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Pierre Boulez Conducts Stravinsky
Director(s): Andy Sommer
This film plays on the transparency of glass: looking outward, it shows the architecture of the Palais du Louvre, and looking inward, the conductor of the Paris Orchestra with his musicians, among...
Pierre Boulez Presents Stravinsky
Director(s): Andy Sommer
This film presents the master class for young people designed by Pierre Boulez and Hélène Jarry. The context of the work's creation is described, and a musical exploration follows, illustrated by...
Impressions of Algiers Museum
Director(s): Patrice Chagnard
Impressions of Algiers Museum begins with some (impressionistic, of course) shots of the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts in its setting of lush greenery. Patrice Chagnard takes the viewer on a stroll...
Michel Butor, Mobile
Director(s): Pierre Coulibeuf
This film is an audiovisual attempt to create a "virtual" visit with writer Michel Butor. A number of clues are laid for the viewer: a book (The Modification); a group (the Nouveau Roman); a trip to...
Capital Visions
Director(s): Hervé Nisic
This film follows writer and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva's preparatory work for the exhibition "Capital Visions" (Musée du Louvre, 1998). She chooses to interpret violence through the symbolic...
Jean Starobinski, Interpreter and Writer
Director(s): Thierry Thomas
In this film, writer and essayist Jean Starobinski talks about himself, his work, his life. With a certain humility, he claims that he is not a true author as his works concern other...
Discovering – The Ages of Discovery
Director(s): Robert Pansard-Besson
The great explorers: Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Magellan. The drawing and form of the globe. Three major discoveries: geometry, Thales of Miletus; the law of gravity, Galileo; microbiology,...
Emerging – Origins II
Director(s): Robert Pansard-Besson
Prehistory, Egypt, Mesopotamia. Knowledge in the prehistoric period. The advent of the great civilizations. The emergence of the main scientific disciplines in Egypt and Mesopotamia through myths,...