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Pierre Boulez Conducts Stravinsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...