Le Jour A Vaincu La Nuit

A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933).

A man is born. He is ephemeral. He will only live a day, during which he will go through all the stages and ages of life, growing old by several years every hour. Like a visitor from elsewhere, he encounters, discovers, and tries to understand this world in which has been born.

Since the death of their parents, while they were still teenagers, Jéremie and Maxime live alone together in an old manor at the edge of the sea. It's the sole remaining link with their family roots. Over the years, Jéremie, taking on the role of big brother and father, has continually looked after Maxime, who is still affected by the accident. Like wounded galloping horses, they have to face their destiny and confront death in order to recover their identity and be at peace with themselves.

Cahen surveys a New York in transition, in transit, in smog, in chaos and in peace.

Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.

The night before the offensive, a soldier hides in the bottom of an underground. Outside, the war shakes the ground and the man prepares himself with the inescapable... In this stop motion animated film, the bodies of the soldiers become again matter, alloy of earth and steel, curdled in death for eternity.

The signs of life and death intertwine within a cinematographic writing that is invented. The expression says: 'mourn'. This film tells us that it is mourning that makes us first. Martin Verdet's film, Donner le jour crosses this time which, from the death of his mother to the birth of his son, tangles day after day the material of mourning to the material of life. This film is a rare film, rare by the emotion it provokes, the quality of this emotion which is always nourished by a formal elaboration, a work on the form whose beauty immediately seizes us as an enigma and as a revelation.

"The film systematically shows man destroying man. It is about war and inhumanity. Largely assembled from newsclips and elaborate montage of still photographs. While working on the film, I came to realize that the strongest thing about violence and the most abstract thing about violence is its sequential nature, that war has never stopped, and that it is just the leading of one conflict into another conflict. I could keep this film going forever...." —Charles Gagnon

A boy emerges from a lake. In front of him, there is an island formed by a volcano. This island is a world where time doesn’t exist, a landscape sculpted by his mind. On this island, he can live and live again what has already been experienced.

The African pioneer Edouard Sailly created a distinctive poetic cinema. Here, he ponders the state of mind of a mourning fisherman.

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and finally going to see, reluctantly, the show of the fourth sister, the extravagant one, the scandalous one, who is part of a comic troupe of the third age...

Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the country of their ancestors, France. In a montage parallel, we follow them in France and listen to them talking to their friends about it.

Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously rotates 360 degrees around her apartment as she rereads the script at an exponentially increasing speed. At its heart, an homage to Godard.

June 1944. Philippe de Chassagne, alias Marceau, a secret agent for the Free French, travels to Geneva. His departure for London having been cancelled, he makes contact with Resistance fighters stationed in the Jura mountains. He has a short but wonderful affair with Béatrice, also a member of the Resistance. A bubble of happiness in the midst of the whirlwind of war.