Philippe Cote Movies

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into...

Ordinary scenes: a market in South Laos ... Agencements of raw snapshots

In this film, shots from two voyages unfold in parallel. First, 8mm images made at the beginning of the seventies by an unknown traveler: this...

Each year, the Tamil community from South India and Sri Lanka met to celebrate the God Ganesh. The film is a description of gestures, dancing bodies,...

A moment spent in a garden. Bursts of light, flowers trembling, life flies by.

Intimate and tactile capture of the outside world through its original material (water, earth, sky, light) in the time of a look, a presence.

Short film by Philippe Cote.

Lanzarote, a volcanic island of the Canary Islands was shaped in the eighteenth century by a series of eruptions. It preserves its memory through...

"At the beginning, they were those words that you wrote to me in order to generate images. I would make them from far away, alone in Seville in...

Between shadow and light / Fairytale around the abysses and its people / Back to the cinema.

Nocturnal dreamlike wandering, filmed in several cities of Southern Europe: Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. Starting from a visual motif, the...

This film describes different forms and manifestations of water. The experience of the filmmaker's body immersed in water, sunken into the liquid...

Short film by Philippe Cote.

... I head to Thailand and then to northern Lao (Luang Prabang then hopefully further north), then certainly to Cambodia. At the source of this...

The tale of an encounter...

At the origin of these departures, is the research of lights, spaces, instants to renew my cinema, to be closer to the poetic documentary: being...

Resulting from performance projections of films painted directly on film. The film literally confronts pure abstraction and the unrolling of the film...

The human face, from original black to full light. Haptic cinema, the camera prolongs the body looking for these moments of confusion where other...

Ghosts of matter, luminous traces, original worlds, made of internal sedimentations, surface, merge, vanish.