Movies: Guy Gilles

The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. Improv...

The creation of a painting by Francis Savel (aka Dietrich de Velsa, director of Équation à un inconnu) in his studio in Montmartre: the white canvas, the tests in charcoal, the drawing, the arrival of color. Outside it is winter....

Marchers in an Indepence Day celebration in Mexico are transformed into tiny soldiers, tiny articulated automatons, turning a serious event into childlike playfulness....

An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness....

The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where a young man with whom she was hopelessly in love had lived. The tenants grow up, get married, die. A ...

Study of the passengers of a steamship during a Mediterranean cruise. (uniFrance)...

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher....

It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Guy Gilles fell in love with her. She will appear in his films: "Courtyard side on the field side", then "Saint, martyr and poet". She will also sing fo...

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective....

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Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet....

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom....

A day in a little café of Paris....

A film by Guy Gilles...

A verlan discussion in a cafe between two young people about a motorbike and girls....

Algiers, summer, a Sunday. A young loving couple goes to Tipaza: strolls on the beach, detour to the dancing, scooter rides. Imperceptibly, the initial harmony cracks. At the bevel of kisses years go by too much....

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