Movies

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films,...

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South...

Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without...

The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic...

This film chronicles a meeting: that of the Tarahumara Indians and a camera that looks at the people that are etymologically called "foot runners." ...

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addresses rites of winter as well as peyote and...

Third chapter of La fêlure du temps. "It's enough that Gloria tells you the first time: if you want to work that way, do it. The sueño...

This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras...

This film was shot during Easter 1985. It shows the preparation and staging of the Passion in the village of Norogachic, Mexico. The initiation rites...

"Erasmo Palma: Matachín dancer, Tarahumaras songwriter, resource for anthropologists, our informer and friend since 1978." (Régis...

“The most culturally mixed of the Tarahumara dances, a hermaphrodite dance says Raymonde. We may have captured a little of Artaud’s...

Meet the last great shaman of peyote and secrets of healing. These are the winter rites opening the Route du Ciguri, the final stage of Antonin...

By combining a journey to the locations for Eisenstein’s unfinished opus Que Viva Mexico! with images of an Indian girl walking, Carasco has...

Fifth chapter of La fêlure du temps. "Yes, the dead, I see him very well. He tells me of the necessity to do that ritual. We have to end this,...