Le Jeu de l'oie du Professeur Poilibus
René Schérer, who calls himself Professor Hairibus, is a philosopher, professor emeritus at Paris 8 University, and the author of numerous works about Husserlian phenomenology, childhood, Charles Fourrier and utopia. At any time, any opportunity, on paths climbed while talking, in the vegetable garden where ideas are ploughed as is the soil, in the seven-eleven where economy is sought and thought, at home, a haven of freedom, while washing up or peeling vegetables, while striding over Cevennes' crests where chestnuts and possibilities are found along the way, his philosophy is at work and play, in that it stimulates, provokes, shakes ideas and things.
Françoise Prenant
Director
Also Directed by Françoise Prenant
Two women, angry Myope and happy Lunette (both played by Franssou Prenant), bounce ideas off each other in a small apartment, until Lunette fashions a story about Agathe (Cecile Garcia Fogel) and her husband Pierrot (Manuel Cedron), a one-time musician who now teaches gym. While the two love each other, they cannot communicate without quarreling.
A film directed by French filmmaker Françoise Prenant.
Between Paris and Syria, the Orient remains an ordinary place filled with literature, myth, and the pulse of love. A love film without lovers, based on a poem by Constantin Cavafy.
A film by French filmmaker Françoise Prenant
A film from 1975 by Françoise Prenant
In the summer of 1969, the first and memorable Panafrican Festival of Algiers (Panaf of its small name) had brought together, assembled from all over Africa, musicians, dancers and theater groups, messenger artists from "brother countries", movements from liberation and the diaspora of the Americas. Forty years later, in July 2009, the second edition of this festival took place. During this one, I filmed several dance troupes in rehearsals or performances; the levitated bodies of the dancers, the energy, the grace and the life they give off.
A film directed by Françoise Prenant.
A famous docking : Algiers, the White City, in a radiant light. The picture darkens with a voice-over reading of the text of the surrender of the Dey of Algiers in 1830. "About the Conquest" confronts us with a page of the French national novel that was too hastily turned.
Through my window-camera, during urban adventures, views of Algiers, where, as a child, after Algerian Independence, I learned about liberty, and which some decades later after immigrating against my will and deliberately becoming an exile, I chose as my city. I was then a "wife of the Republic of Madagascar," as the left-hand side page of my passport noted, while the right-hand side declared "of the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary." Disembodied, words off-screen, intervening one over the other, simultaneous encounters of polyphonic voices glide.
