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Körner Union, a young Swiss art and design collective, created a music video for the pop group Larytta, featuring an ever-increasing number of various animals in a kaleidoscopic mirror installation.
Documentary filmmaker Seb Coupy engages with the staff and patients of the Gonesse day hospital (Val d'Oise): he asks each person to draw a map of the world from memory on a "big world" format sheet of paper and to share their perspective on it.
Philippe Fernandez paints a portrait of a small human community experiencing the early moments of space exploration, set in a countryside that appears to follow the rhythm of a Tati film. One evening, these very composed protagonists encounter an event that sparks reflections on space, species, and time—reflections that then extend to the viewer, as this is the aim of this filmosophical essay, or philosophy through film.
The video artist Julia Oldham and physicist Eric Corwin attempt to measure the speed of light using the apparatus developed by physicist Hippolyte Fizeau in 1849. They combine this instrument with strange homemade measurement systems, such as a leaky faucet and a noisy crank...
Mongolia, a country long closed to travelers, is now opening up to the liberal market and tourists from around the world. What interactions occur between tourists and nomadic herders? Some dream of a world...
In the 1950s, a Soviet spacecraft crashes in East Germany, carrying a chimpanzee that spreads a deadly virus...
The most nuclearized territory on the planet, La Hague, serves as an ideal location to examine the impact of the nuclear industry, a national specialty. At a time when transparency is mandated by law, the film reveals the challenges of implementing it. The reflections of Greenpeace and ACRO (the Association for the Control of Radioactivity in the West) contrast sharply with the highly controlled language of communication departments. How can the risks of accidents, environmental impact, and health consequences be assessed? Is the reprocessing of waste or the construction of an EPR justified? A scientist candidly addresses these fundamental questions posed by middle school students.
It's winter for Albert, an eight-year-old boy, and his small family. A winter filled with upheavals—his mother is ill, middle school is looming, and the boy has lost his voice. With rigorously detached imagery, the film unfolds like a journal kept by young Albert. Yet Albert knows how to maintain his own distance, keeping his winter locked away.
The Clinical Ethics Center, which meets once a week at Cochin Hospital in Paris, is an experimental space: "experts" from across civil society come together to debate and assist with ethically challenging medical decisions. Families and medical teams can consult the center for guidance on decisions concerning end-of-life care, the resuscitation of an infant, assisted reproduction, or the coma of a loved one or patient. Drawing on the perspectives of jurists, philosophers, doctors, and journalists, the film explores the dilemmas that arise at the intersection of science and morality.
A young Malian immigrant in France, Sékou refuses to accept fate. When he returns to his home country for his vacation, it is to try to find solutions to desertification, which is inexorably destroying his village. Through his journey and encounters, the multiple causes (deforestation, overpopulation, economic pressure from wealthy countries, etc.) and consequences (loss of soil fertility, food shortages, ethnic conflicts, immigration to Northern countries, etc.) of desertification are addressed.
Based on a famous 1970s song, this short animated film ironically analyzes the language of industrial production. To do so, it uses the drawings of a globally recognized brand known for its respect for the environment.
Made during the International Year of Astronomy, this film allows viewers to enter one of the largest astrophysics departments (the SAp). Behind the research, we discover the people who push it forward. Over the course of a year, the filmmakers followed the daily lives of researchers, witnessing the launch of the Herschel satellite and, in Chile, telescope observations at APEX, over 5,000 meters above sea level.
In November 2006, the members of the "Santo 2006" expedition conducted a biodiversity inventory on the island of Santo in Vanuatu. To accommodate the scientists, a camp was built by the local population, deep in the forest, a few kilometers from the village of Penaoru. A few months later, the villagers share their involvement in this mission and express mixed feelings.
For the first time in years, on the island of Motalava, in the north of Vanuatu, a new song will be written in the language of the ancestors – the language of the god Quat – and will become part of tradition. But even more surprising, this traditional song is written in honor of a White man, Alexandre François, a young French linguist, whom everyone there calls "Alex."
The saho is the house for young Bozo boys living along the Niger River in Mali. Life here is organized communally, with elders initiating the younger ones. It is a place for conversation, music, and the preparation of celebrations. According to tradition, boys can also receive young girls there. Master masons go above and beyond to build the saho: originally a simple hut, the saho is transformed into a small palace made of raw earth, with facades adorned with columns, bas-reliefs, and decorations. Today, this tradition is being challenged by Islamic religious leaders who view this space of freedom for the youth with disapproval. At the same time, the younger generation is increasingly drawn to urban cities. What will become of the saho?
The film was made to be shown in high school physics courses and humor is employed both to hold students' interest and to demonstrate the concepts being discussed. In the film, University of Toronto physics professors Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey explain the distinction between inertial and noninertial frames of reference, while demonstrating these concepts through humorous camera tricks. For example, the film opens with Dr. Hume, who appears to be upside down, accusing Dr. Ivey of being upside down. Only when the pair flip a coin and it floats up does it become obvious that Dr. Ivey — and the camera — are indeed inverted.
Explains how crystals are formed and why they are shaped as they are. Considers their actual growth under a microscope, how they may be grown, and the relation of these phenomena to the concept of atoms.
Filmed during the British ornithologist David Lack's expedition to the Galapagos Islands in 1938-39, the film begins with an evocation of Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the Beagle, through extracts read by the filmmaker himself.
Diversity is a concept of our time, and visible minorities need to be even more visible on screens. Jean-Armand, the "beur" weather presenter, speaks to young people from the suburbs in their own language; all he needs is the tracksuit to be perfectly authentic.
The film explores the daily life of Native Americans.
At the heart of the Haute Provence Observatory, CNRS researchers are studying the repercussions of global warming on a tree typical of the Mediterranean climate, the downy oak.
Hearing is a special sense that humans still do not understand and master well. Current progress allows us to consider virtual reality, not to replace humans but to give the illusion of better perception
The different stages of making the Rabat city carpet
Child labor survey conducted in the Ochre City, Marrakech.
An information and awareness document on means of prevention, this film questions the causes, diagnoses and treatments of this serious illness.
At 34 years old, autistic, David lives alone in his isolation. Yet, he says himself: "I don't have enough people... It takes two Davids like me." So, David takes the camera as a witness. It reflects his declared desire to be with others and, at the same time, shows his anger, his constant attitude of rejection. Le Printemps, il recule (Spring, It Recedes) is a true encounter where David and his companions take the filmmaker inside the reality of their lives, where they momentarily escape autism.
Le Cabanon is a place of care where, far from the clichés about drug addiction, men and women come to consult their doctor, see the social worker, and linger at the reception to chat... Amidst tensions, boundaries, and commitments, they support each other.
The film is built from elements collected from a site in the Appalachian Mountains called "Betty Creek." Some of these elements, such as dust, plants, sounds, and time-lapse images of nocturnal life, were gathered on film using various techniques to convey the unique atmosphere of the place.
On an island in Indonesia, a stratovolcano has given rise to three crater lakes with changing colors. Initially blue-green, the largest lake undergoes multiple variations in color and texture throughout the day. This phenomenon evokes a sense of mystery, heightened by the legend surrounding it and the fact that scientists have yet to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
It is the story of a controversy that occupied geologists at the end of the 19th century. And it is the story of a man who, because he needs stillness, goes to the mountains... Played by the always unpredictable Denis Lavant, the traveler of today, like the geologist of the past, questions the mountain, seeking to see it truthfully.
Photographs of human vulvas in relief come to life and intertwine with surfaces or textures from natural environments or those shaped by humans. The genital images are extracted from ViewMaster 3D reels that accompanied the 1976 manual Le clitoris, published by two doctors.
At the University of Life Sciences in Norway, you might encounter cows with a porthole on their side. A porthole? But why look inside a cow? And what is the daily life like for these "porthole cows"? Well, they live in good harmony with the veterinary students who take them to graze in the summer and pamper them in the winter.
Inside a medico-legal institute, experts carry out autopsies. Corpses are observed, dissected and analyzed.
Scientific city. There is someone among the trees. He wants to make his home habitable. Voices are heard. One speaks of cells, the other of the childhood home. But he only hears this question: How can one accept dying? Do science and poetry change anything here? Perhaps...
Sociologist and researcher at the CNRS, Patrick Prado focuses his gaze on the shift in society, particularly in the rural world, at the threshold of modernity. Overlaid with images shot in Super 8 or 16mm 30 years ago, are images of today, landscapes permanently altered by this societal upheaval.
A painter, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, managed to communicate his thoughts and feelings from within the illness itself. An American artist who lived in London from 1957 until his death in 2007, William Utermohlen painted the gradual deterioration of his brain. With poetry and tenderness, Frédéric Compain films the painter and his work, closely following the creative process.