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- In full 18th century regalia, French writer Philippe Sollers plays French philosopher Denis Diderot, reciting and performing a selection of his texts in the decor of the Palais-Royal Garden, in Paris, with the help of two actresses.
- From 1980 to 1983, Philippe Sollers performed readings of his book 'Paradise' from Paris to Jerusalem, via Rome, New York or Brussels; this is a live recording of a performance where he stands at the center of a multiple video screens set.
- French writer Philippe Sollers examines the representation of the female body through the history of art with the help of the most powerful works by Pablo Picasso or Gustave Courbet.
- The conduct of a mass, at noon sharp, on a weekday at the Church of the Trinity in Paris.
- Video installation with multiple monitors powered by multiple stacked VCR, created in November 1993 at the 7th Rencontres Video Art Plastique in Herouville-Saint-Clair, France, and reimagining the Nativity of Jesus in the digital age.
- Assembled from texts by French poet, translator, and journalist Armand Robin (1912-1961) found at his home after his death in 1961, a mysterious death at the hands of the police for which we will probably never know the exact cause.
- An accumulation of about twenty stacked video screens simultaneously play images of the life and works of Irish writer James Joyce, like so many fragments dilated in space and time, a bridge between the viewer and Joyce's art.
- A series of eight short video works by Jean-Paul Fargier using edited television images recorded with a videocassette recorder in the late 70s/early 80s as unique material, in the found footage style.
- Famous French or American artists and writers read in their own language large excerpts from 'Finnegans Wake' (1939), the last book by Irish writer James Joyce.
- Video installation with 14 monitors powered by 14 stacked VCR, installed 2 by 2 face to face, created in 1988 in Herouville-St-Clair, showing the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary with Angel Gabriel on one side and Mary on the other.
- Korean-American avant-garde video artist Nam June Paik reacts to a series of words and names submitted to him by the director: space, ego, money, love, Karl Marx, Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, George Maciunas, Paul Valéry, etc.
- Video installation in the form of a stained glass window with 19 monitors powered by 19 stacked VCR created in 1988 at Salle Petrarque, Montpellier, showing the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Elizabeth as told in the Gospel of Luke.
- A Breton singer, Gilles Servat, rewrites one of his songs under pressure from a feminist group, a case of political correctness before the concept even existed.
- Celebrates what would have been the 100th birthday of Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), whose kino-glaz/'film-eye' theory that the camera is an instrument, much like the human eye, was iconic.
- French painter Pierre Buraglio walks around the Musée du Louvre, stops and talks about the Louvre paintings that impressed him: works by Chardin, Watteau, Titian, etc. His choices and comments paint his own self-portrait for the viewer.
- A political and militant film about a wildcat strike in a textile factory in Cerizay, in the Poitou-Charentes region, in the French provinces.
- On a video 3-monitor setup, more than 60 music video clips of the early 80s are analyzed and dissected to try to define a rhetoric of the genre, an exploration of the visual language used by musical artists to promote themselves.
- Jean-Luc Godard and Philippe Sollers meet in Paris to discuss Godard's film Je vous salue, Marie and many other things.
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