Catalogue des films

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs. The film is poetic in tone and features a number of image and sound montage sequences.

“The Borinage was the perfect example of capitalist injustice. [...] During the weeks spent in the Borinage, we lived very close to the miners... The film we had started was becoming more and more their own film... Our aesthetic point of view...

A lyrical and musical film on the beauties of Slovak countryside. It depicts traditional rituals, dances, games, festivities and village customs through the four seasons.

ober and poetic in the vein of European avant garde cinema, this impressionist film uses superb photography to describe the effects of winter on life, the city, landscapes.

"This cinematographic experiment in human geography was filmed in 1932, shortly after the founding of the Spanish Republic. [...] "Las Hurdes" is a barren, inhospitable region whose inhabitants are involved in an hourly struggle for survival."...

Dans ce film réalisé en 1930, Rudolf Pfenninger employait la technique des cartes photographiées. Dans son ouvrage, "La Musique et le Cinéma", Georges Hacquard évoque ces premières recherches : "Le son enregistré électriquement sur la...

Although largely shot by Basil Wright and Arthur Elton, Flaherty's film is heavily inflected by his romantic emphasis on the importance of individual craftsmanship in the mechanical age. Like "Drifters", "Industrial Britain" is concerned with...

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants. (Michael Brooke in www.imdb.com)

DOCU-FICTION Documentaire sur l'île de Sein qui met en évidence l'âpre affrontement entre les hommes et l'océan. Premier film parlé en breton. “... Où commencer ? Sein contient les éléments, tous les éléments d’un film magnifique....

An avant-garde Portuguese film which takes us into the neighbourhood of Alfama. The subjective camera plunges us into the life of this quarter in Lisbon’s old centre. One of the classics of the early period of Portuguese documentary.