Philippe Sollers

A look back at the life of Jacques Derrida, on the 10th anniversary of the philosopher's death.

A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of the artistic community of the last 20th century which attempts to answer these questions: Why film everyone? Why choose cultural personalities? How do the subjects look at their image? How much exhibitionism and narcissism is involved in being filmed?

Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.

As a rereading of his films, "Contretemps" (in the fight against time), Jean-Daniel Pollet brings together excerpts of his films and a report by Jean Baronnet. The author Philippe Sollers and philosopher Julia Kristeva voice their thoughts.

Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer reading the beginning of his last published book.

Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes.

Jean-Luc Godard and Philippe Sollers meet in Paris to discuss Godard's film Je vous salue, Marie, and many other things.

Reel 32 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

En una mansión, cuatro señores se reúnen con cuatro exprostitutas y con un grupo de jóvenes de ambos sexos, partisanos o hijos de partisanos, que han sido hechos prisioneros. Nadie en la casa puede eludir las reglas del juego establecidas por los señores; toda transgresión se castiga con la muerte. Además, ellos gozan de la facultad de disponer a su antojo de la vida de los cautivos.

Pollet provides an insight into life on the leper colony of Spinalonga, an island off Crete, through the eyes of Raimondakis, who tells the story of his life to the camera after having been excluded from his community to spend years of his life on the island with his fellow sufferers. Themes addressed include love, community, companionship and death and the importance of these values to all people whatever their state of health.

Un vendedor de camisas mata accidentalmente a un matón callejero durante una pelea y vaga por la ciudad mientras se lamenta por lo que debe hacer al respecto.

Película concebida por el productor Barbet Schroeder y compuesta por seis cortometrajes dirigidos por algunos de los mejores directores franceses de la época. Los títulos corresponden a barrios parisinos. Godard rueda una comedia romántica en Montparnasse, Rouch sigue a una chica por la Gare du Nord, Claude Chabrol muestra una infeliz familia burguesa en La Muette, Jean-Daniel Pollet cuenta una desternillante historia sobre el encuentro de un hombre tímido con una prostituta en la Rue Sant-Denis, Jean Douchet narra la historia de unas chicas americanas que se van de paseo con unos franceses por Saint-Germain-des-Prés, y Éric Rohmer sigue a un vendedor que se enzarza en una pelea con un borracho en la Place de l'Étoile y teme haberlo matado.

Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.