Catalogue des films de « Danièle Tessier »

A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. Sidi and his comrades are exploited systematically and permanently, as much by their employers as by their own...

Pam Sambo Zima, priest of the possession rite in Niamey since 1939, died in March 1974. Jean Rouch films, in a long uninterrupted shot-sequence, the meeting of the initiated and faithful in the courtyard of Pam's holding. These have come to...

Filmed from a plane, abstract forms of the desert from the Sahara to Mauritania.

Shot from a plane flying over Africa, from Ethopia's mountains to the Atlantic coast, this film unfolds the boundless planisphere, crisscrossed by the Nil, Chari, Niger and Senegal Rivers.

Daily life at Saint-Alban’s psychiatric hospital in Lozère. “We didn’t want to reassure the audience with smiling images of a modern institution with no walls or fencing. Once a medieval fortress, the old asylum lives on here in the...

Craters, plateaus, caves. Lozère is the most successful of those desolate regions, a perfect picture postcard, like all hells grown cold. On this thankless land, populated yet not inhabited, a handful of people are still hanging on.