Philippe Roger

Filmes

People
Editor
People is a film shot behind closed doors in a workshop/house on the outskirts of Paris and features a dozen characters. It is based on an interweaving of scenes of moaning and sex. The house is the characters' common space, but the question of ownership is distended, they don't all inhabit it in the same way. As the sequences progress, we don't find the same characters but the same interdependent relationships. Through the alternation between lament and sexuality, physical and verbal communication are put on the same level. The film then deconstructs, through its repetitive structure, our relational myths.
Trinkets and Dark Thoughts
Editor
On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.
Trinkets and Dark Thoughts
On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.
Haldernablou - Triptyque
Ablou is a young man prisoner of a dream and a park. He meets strange characters who try to lock him up a little more in this long sleep.
Haldernablou - Triptyque
Editor
Ablou is a young man prisoner of a dream and a park. He meets strange characters who try to lock him up a little more in this long sleep.
Le Parc: Les prolégomènes d'Haldernablou
Two men meet in a park: Haldern has on a black balaclava, while Ablou is wearing white underpants. The film is based on choreography by Daniel Larrieu, who was invited to "play with the story board" of Alfred Jarry's book "Haldernablou", with illustrations by Tom de Pékin.
Le Parc: Les prolégomènes d'Haldernablou
Editor
Two men meet in a park: Haldern has on a black balaclava, while Ablou is wearing white underpants. The film is based on choreography by Daniel Larrieu, who was invited to "play with the story board" of Alfred Jarry's book "Haldernablou", with illustrations by Tom de Pékin.
Beautiful Bitch
Director
While with one of his clients, the young male prostitute Cédric receives a voicemail from his mother. She is going through detoxification and desperately wants him to come and visit her. Cédric embarks on a journey through Paris, attempting to get to her as fast as he can against all the odds.
Du cinéma à la télévision, propos d'un passeur Serge Daney
Director
Serge Daney (1944-1992) expressed himself strongly about the world, using the tools of a "Barthes cinema lover in early retirement" as he used to call himself. Co-writer of the book "Devant la recrudescence des vols de sacs à main", Pilippe Roger has filmed Serge Daney confronting him with four major stages in the evolution of cinema : by screening extracts from films by Chaplin, Stevens, Eustache and Truffaut, adding rhythm into this vivid and intelligent, strict but piercing documentary. Serge Daney takes risks : he rushes forward, plying between ethic and aestheticism, destruction and salvation, past and present, Europe and America, fantasy and reality, cinema and psycho-analysis, literary and technical languages, watching and showing. There's enough material here to reconsider the video.