L'Origine du Monde

He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden. No longer can he dash around the world: day after day, he contemplates it from his house. He’s a filmmaker. He’s only ever lived to make movies.

This film enables us to understand the spiritual journey, the artistic quest and the technological experimentation of a pioneer of video art, Bill Viola, who has been described as a "sculptor of time".

Cannes Film Festival 1975

Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 times, the Moon through the telescope of the Observatorium of Paris. His visions drive him into a meditation about the relationships in between dream, reality and poetry.

For the "Cinéma, de notre temps" collection, Jean-Paul Fargier sends his friend filmmaker Jean-Daniel Pollet a letter written to the second person.

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray's life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.

Radioscopy of Armand Robin who, during the Algerian war, listened to the false words of radio propaganda and hosted poetry programmes against the said propaganda.