Catalogue des films de « Claude-Pierre Chavanon »
Auteur-Réalisateur | France | 2004
2004, ten years after the end of arpatheid, the black community always lives as a large majority in the township was suburbs poor and far away from the centre of the cities. It is in this context of forty dark year old heritage, and in a climate...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France | 2002
Policemen, wardens, artists, apparently without any connections, are in the heart of the estate. These jobs are still poorly acknowledged, poorly accepted and yet society ask them to be more end more present. All three are desperate for...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France | 2002
The Pehuenches of Chile, faced with the construction of a gigantic dam - designed to supply the entire modern Chile with electricity - are fighting to preserve their identity, their way of life and quite simply their livelihood. It's a case of...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France | 2001
harkis, the wives of harkis and the sons and daughters of harkis recount their feeling of being simultaneously rejected by Algeria and betrayed by France. As they take it in turns to speak, some of them full of raw pain, others more historically...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France, Australie | 2000
In day-to-day life, the Aborigines are not very well known and are considered as welfare scroungers and pariahs by white Australians. In this film they demonstrate that far from being passive, they find the means of resisting the dominant culture...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France | 2000
In Africa, as anywhere else, children imitate the traditional musicians – the Griots – and, here, on the Senegalese coast, they do it, using various used implements – Rhandi – as musical instruments. Nowadays, this way of playing is not...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France, Suisse | 1999
Blaise Cendras, the author, the poet, hasn't only knocked about a lot as people are used to say. This biographical documentary, written by Miriam Cendrars and shooted by Claude-Pierre Chavanon, follows with nine sequences the route of one of the...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France | 1998
750 years ago the Granier collapsed. Considered as the disaster of the Middle-Ages, this collapse has been told in chronicles of those times. It was not only the center of legends, but also a good subject for geologic studies that were completed...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France | 1997
André spent ten years in the streets of France. Being successively tramp in Paris, lodger of a charity organisation, applicant in a monastery... With this film, André has met again the people who helped him to get out of these down and out...
Auteur-Réalisateur | France, Belgique | 1997
"Give me feet to dance" is the beginning of a Bijogo women's song for initiation ceremonies. In other words, they call their mind in order to have the spirit to dance and live too. With this film, we get in the Bijogo life. This people lives on...