Movies:

How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning....

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional n...

Documentary by Occitane Lacurie....

From role playing games to animated GIFs, from reenacted performances to poetic writing, this video essay asks: what is an authentic expression of anger?...

This video essay explores the gender dynamics behind the acts of looking and being-looked-at in Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)....

Produced as part of an end-of-the-year series of videos looking back at films released in 2015, this video essay asks: when does the act of framing an image become a political gesture?...

A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V: Absence, 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Special thanks to Bero Beyer. Dedicated to the film I DO NOT CARE IF ...

What do the numerous similarities between the films of Michael Haneke and Quentin Dupieux reveal about their respective filmmaking strategies?...

Inventing a poetic path through images created with Louis Daguerre's centuries-old photographic device, 16mm film cameras, pixelated video games consoles, early smarphones and contemporary computer interfaces, the work asks: what aspects of reality h...

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This video presents Chapters 3 and 4 from the series. « The Spokesman » (aka « A Guide to be driven ») investigates the online traces of John Cantlie, a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State's propaganda vid...

At the turn of the 20th century, the 'flâneurs' started disappearing from the Parisian landscape. Walter Benjamin became, in his posthumous book 'Das Passagen-Werk', the witness of their extinction. What if one century later, against all odds, th...

“Threads of Blood” is a collective documentary in which thirteen filmmakers from different parts of the world share and showcase their personal stories about menstruation. The essayistic documentary brings together various formats such as video lette...

A researcher finds a phone video showing hundreds of ISIS captives running through a desert. She is puzzled that the video is posted on YouTube by Les Observateurs, a French state-funded news channel as a work of “citizen journalism”. While the vide...

A film that brings two worlds into dialogue: that of the online game GeoGuessr and that of the filmography of Chris Marker, the filmmaker and multimedia artist, deeply fascinated by digital technology and travel....

A film about Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives (2018), a detective comedy appropriating for its own purposes the principle of its model: inquiring about the inquirer....

Through a series of text, clips, and sounds popping up on a simulated computer screen, French researcher and filmmaker Chloé Galibert-Laîné investigates the noise that terrified Daney, as well as those that have scared her; the result proving its suc...

Odile lives alone. Afraid that someone might enter her flat when she’s not at home, she enters a video surveillance online community, in the hope that users will keep an eye on her apartment and inform her in case of unexpected intrusion. And the int...

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters...

A poetic journey through the collages of paper maps made by Robert Kramer during the preparation of the shooting of Route One USA, to which are superimposed excerpts from his diary, and scenes from the finished film. How do you prepare a shoot when y...