Catalogue des films de « Christian Merlhiot »

Un hommage à Mireille Perrier qui lit des extraits de Marguerite Duras et évoque sa carrière au cinéma.

Nishinoyama House is a residential complex emblematic of contemporary architecture in Kyoto. Designed by Kazuyo Sejima (Sanaa) and built in 2013, it is composed of ten units linked together with shared roofs and gardens. In the form of a diary,...

Une petite communauté inuit de l’Arctique canadien. Nasri Sayegh est venu rencontrer les habitants d’Igloolik, descendants d’une société de chasseurs aujourd’hui sédentaire. Dans ce village, il découvre que l’esprit des morts est...

In 2009, Rachel Uyarasuk, the elder of the Inuit community of Igloolik, evokes the ancestors whose name she received at birth. She explains how this transmission ensured their return among the world of the living.

Kentaro has recently left his hometown. He lives in a village near Kyoto and works in a dyeing workshop. He also does occasional jobs for the villagers and looks after Yukiko, and old mischievious lady who says very little. The more people he...

In 1895 Oscar Wilde – an exuberant dandy living up to his aesthetic ideals – had reached the height of his literary career. In the days following the opening of his play The Importance of Being Ernest at the St James’s Theatre the Marquess...

Elise Müller was thirty-two years old when she met Théodore Flournoy at a spiritualist séance that she was giving in Geneva. It was 1894, the reputation of the medium was in the ascendant and Flournoy has just been given the chair of psychology...

Minimal set-up. Displayed in white letters in the middle of a black screen is the report drafted by the police after the scandal of the premiere of Luis Bunuel’s "L’Âge d’or" (1930) at the Studio des Ursulines. When this text quotes the...

"Les lois répriment pour un temps, l’enseignement seul, enchaîne à jamais. Voilà une règle de colonisation qui, pour n’être pas nouvelle, n’en garde pas moins sa valeur." Ce film évoque la colonisation vietnamienne à travers la...

"We are in Osaka in early April 2002; I have come to prepare to shoot a film, but I am also here to take stock with Vincent, to measure his trust and test our story."