Catalogue des films de « François Le Bayon »

During the night of 16 to 17 March 1978, the super tanker, the "Amoco-Cadiz", ran aground on the coast of northern Brittany, a few miles from the small port of Portsall, and released over 220,000 tonnes of oil. It was the biggest oil slick of the...

In the 1950s, the American sociologist Marshall McLuhan invented the concept of global village ; he invited artists to witness to situations of imbalance created by the intensive development of certain media. Forty years later, artists use the...

In the late 1950s, cars, washing machines, television sets, arrived in every home. Industrial production piled the objects up in supermarkets. The artists of New Realism and Pop Art celebrated this consumer culture. In 1960, César invented...

Presenting in a playful or derisory way the permanent ruin that threatens the world or trying to transform it everyday by interfering in the imaginary world of childhood : that is the game that the artists presented in this edition play at. But...

"One has to cast a look of the future into the past to work in the present", says Beuys. How do contemporary artists pose the question of the representation of history ? How do they occupy the distance that separates the past from the memorisation...

In Kassel, during Documenta V, Harald Szeemann organised a "personal museums" section in which he invited artists to explore the role of individual and collective memory in the definition of identity. Christian Boltanski evokes the past and the...

In 1918, Claude Monet created the first environmental work : the "Nymphéas". Placed on the walls of a room at the Orangerie, the spectator has to turn 360 degrees to see it in its entirety, thus experiencing a true immersion in nature. Later,...

Sexuality has not always been a taboo subject. The nude, a favourite theme of genre painting, with Manet became an instrument of provocation in the face of bourgeois hypocrisy. Today, artists explore the body as a symbol of the discrimination of a...

The radio recites its list of good news : corruption, speculation, unemployment... Like Grosz who, in 1920, made fun in his work of those who took advantage of a system that "grants to the unemployed day after day what they need to die", should...

"La Fée électricité", an immense fresco produced by Dufy in 1937, celebrated the human glories of technological modernity. What remains of the dialogue begun between artists and technicians at the end of this century ? Criticism or...