Hélène Chatelain

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his writings, Soviet propaganda films, reactions of workers today and the memory he has left in the hearts & minds of his people in Gouliaïpolié, in the east of the Ukraine.

The only film to emerge from France’s Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons was this collaboration between filmmaker and writer Hélène Châtelain and her colleague René Lefort which extends the GIP initiative to end the silence around incarceration in France. Blocked from shooting inside prison walls, the filmmakers ask former inmates, guards and bystanders to describe their experience with the institution. Their feature is a crucial part of a broad constellation of projects – a post-68 vérité wave – in which women, immigrants, factory workers, and other marginalized groups began using film and video to analyze their position within global struggles. Incarceration is one factor that ties these struggles together: “None of us is sure to escape prison,” Foucault wrote in the GIP manifesto, “Today less than ever.”

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.

Na hipotética Paris devastada pela Terceira Guerra Mundial, os poucos humanos sobreviventes pesquisam uma forma de viajar no tempo, para assim poderem mandar alguém para buscar comida, água e talvez uma solução para a terrível posição em que se encontram. Um homem é assombrado por uma vaga lembrança da infância que se provará desastrosa.