Catalogue des films de « Michel Van Zèle »

The founding of the Cinémathèque Suisse was a genuine saga, like that of the Cinémathèque Française and other film archives... Two major figures of this world of images and sounds, Henri Langlois and Freddy Buache... One of them, "the dragon...

Henri Dutilleux began his research into the voice in 1944 working with Jean Cassou's "33 Sonnets Composed in Secret", then with a brief passage from "the Shadows of Time" in 1994. If he often refers to a tree-structure composition (especially in...

To commemorate the centenary of the sculptor's birth, on October 10, 2001, this documentary reveals for the first time the sublime singularity of the work and career of Alberto Giacometti, who died on January 11, 1966.

Once the Germans entered Paris on June 14, 1940, the attitude of journalists toward the occupier became predicated on three basic choices : collaboration, a wait-and-see policy and the underground... For four years, the intensive propaganda war...

Renonçant à toute perspective historique, Michel Van Zele met l’accent sur la relation de Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) à Marthe, sa compagne et modèle. Les toiles, filmées dans un tempo juste qui laisse le temps de les regarder, sont...

His life is already a whole novel full of scandals and angers : father unknown, abandoned by his mother when he was 7 months old, Jean Genet knows very early the life in prison. From there he begins to write his first poems. Multiple writer,...

This film gives a unique insight into the work of Jacques Truphemus as well as a sensitive approach to the secret personnality of this great Lyonnais painter. To make clear these two inseparable aspects (the man and his work) and to put them to...

"I like very much working from what really exists. I hate to build in a new town ; I hate to find myself in the middle of a sugar-beet field. I prefer to be in the center of the city of Lyons, surrounded by four historical façades. That's a real...

Évocation de l'attitude des écrivains et éditeurs français pendant l'Occupation allemande, de 1940 à 1944, et pendant la période d'épuration, conçue en deux parties : "De la débâcle à la clandestinité" et "De la Libération à...

Entretien avec Marc Barbezat, éditeur de la revue littéraire "L'arbalète" créée en 1940 à Lyon et dans laquelle ont paru des textes d'auteurs français et étrangers (Sartre, Genet, Camus, Hemingway, Faulkner...) C’est une occasion aussi...