Gueule D

Ten French job seekers show up for a two-day recruitment session knowing only that they’re vying for a sales position in the insurance field. Their prospective employer remains a mystery. With limited information, they’re launched into a hiring process that more closely resembles a reality TV challenge than a traditional interview.This brutal examination of entry-level recruitment sheds light on the stigma of being unemployed, the power dynamics of interviewing and the roles people play in their quest to earn a minimum wage.

Elisa lives alone with her mother, Jeanne, in a hamlet of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the rock face. The girl resents prolonged absences of her mother who made Night households Gap. The child tries to fill his solitude with a puppet snapdragon it still holds his gloved forearm. One morning Elisa hears on the radio that wolves escaped from a park nearby. She tells her mother that she will leave with them.

Manipulation of a sequence shot of Juliet Berto's "Havre" to make a clip for Siouxsie and the Banshees.

A man at loose ends, torn by hunger, looks for ways to survive in a desolated landscape. His hopes rise again as he discovers a colossal building along his way.

Upset by the death of one of her patients, Marie, a young nurse, decides to go in search of the relatives of the deceased. This is how she meets the gang of thugs of which he was a part.

It's summer. Pierre goes out with Juliette, for fakes. For Juliette to see Stéphane in secret. Since the police are looking for Stéphane. Every day, while the two young lovers find themselves in a cabin lost in the middle of the forest, Pierre stays outside, alone in the middle of the trees. He is waiting. He is playing the game. Pierre knows how to keep a secret.

The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.

Photographer Henri Barbier is lured by his old friend Barbara to fake the theft of her jewels. It turns out that he is suspected of murder and extortion, while Barbara and her lover are the culprits, which is eventually revealed.

Bruno, accompaned by his friend Liliane, arrives at his father's place. His father lives alone in the middle of the countryside. Bruno wants to ask him something.

A movie* shot with a Sony PMW-EX1 camera, compressed and transferred to DVD, and played on a Philips 42PF9996/37 LCD HDTV. One scene from that movie recorded with a Blackberry Curve four different times, each time zoomed in a bit more. Four different videos imported into Final Cut Pro 6, superimposed on top of each other, compressed and exported to Quicktime, and finally uploaded to Vimeo. And what remains? Well, what was there to begin with?

While the twelve strokes of midnight slowly sound in the night and the lights go out in the windows of old Montmartre, a devil is born in a puddle of rum, thrown by some drunkard. And to do his devilish job conscientiously, without wasting time. A cellar is nearby. The devil invites him to his gala evening. It raises the wind, swirls clouds of dust, and in a Sabbath atmosphere, the guests flock: puppets crumpled with party favors, waste and rejects of all kinds leave the trash cans and hurry towards the promised spectacle. The orchestra – jazz – is headlined by an old accordion player…

Telaroli's third film in the "Amuse-gueule" experimental film series, featuring John Carpenter's "Elvis" (made for TV in 1979, projected and “re-recorded” in an apartment in 2013, revised on and for a computer).

Telaroli's second film in the "Amuse-gueule" experimental film series, featuring footage from King Vidor's "Northwest Passage".