Portrait of an African Woman

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams of traveling throughout France and getting to know her adopted country, taking iss

Kalkidane, le serment d'une adoptée

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to the casino and seaside resort of his early teens, Louis, a 78 year old man encounters Olivia, a 19 year old young woman madly in love with a violent cad. Louis tells the sto

Le Temps d'une sèche

Child of the Andes

Ten-year-old Sébastiana recounts the history and legends and explains the local customs of Andahuaylillas, Peru, a small village located high in the Andes. Their simpler way of life has persisted for over three centuries

Chronicle of a Forgotten Death

During two and a half years, the man didn’t move from the couch of his Geneva apartment. His letterbox was full, his mail was being returned. Electricity had eventually been cut off and the real estate agency was about t

Grandin, les raisons d'une victoire

For a year, the women working at the Grandin factory in Montreuil, France occupy the place and lead numerous actions.

98, secrets d'une victoire

Bernadette Chirac, mémoires d'une femme libre

Histoire d’une sculpture

Tourists Returning from an Excursion

Tourists are walking down a path on their way back from an excursion.

Les Lumières d'une ville

Extraits d’une famille

This film is my failed attempt at creating a thematic palindrome of audio/visual samples. When working between two poles of remembering - one easily gets confused. Please enjoy this film before my mother asks me to delet

La Joconde, histoire d'une obsession

This is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks

Iran: chronique d'une année décisive

Fragments d'une métamorphose

Stars d'une génération Années 90

Les aventures d'une jeune veuve

A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.

La traque d'une vie

Un an d'une vie