Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various...
Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without news. Anna, a theater actress, was in the title role in Sade's "Justine" when she disappeared. The investigation leading Joa to the people who have known...
To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the world's vacillations. Trying to communicate, to...
The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films, statements by friends of his and shooting sequences of the film itself, tormented filmmaker Marcel Hanoun has made a heterogeneous and unclassifiable film...
This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras (from 1977 to 1994) on the track of Antonin Artaud, in Norogachic, the only place explicitly mentioned by Antonin Artaud.
The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South America.
A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addresses rites of winter as well as peyote and bakaka rites. Its commentary, read by Raymonde Carasco and Jean Rouch, is drawn from texts by Antonin Artaud.
Rites of winter, rites of peyote. A creative documentary based on texts by Antonin Artaud read by Jean Rouch, and the words of the last shaman’s peyote, translated by Raymonde Carasco.
Tarahumaras 2003, The Crack of Time Part 3: Initiation - Gloria
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Third chapter of La fêlure du temps. "It's enough that Gloria tells you the first time: if you want to work that way, do it. The sueño is not taught: you yourself are going to think how to work the sueño"
Tarahumaras 2003, The Crack of Time Part 1: Before - The Apaches
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La fêlure du temps (2000-2003) is the last of the works of Raymonde Carasco focused on the Tarahumara. This epic divided into five chapters (L’Avant is the first) focuses on the origins and the disappearance of the Tarahumara culture, based on the words of the last shaman.
This film was shot in August 1984 in NOROGACHIC, the heart of the Sierra Tarahumara (the same place where Antonin Artaud in 1936, claims to have attended the rites of Tutuguri after crossing "The Mountain of Signs").
This film chronicles a meeting: that of the Tarahumara Indians and a camera that looks at the people that are etymologically called "foot runners." Musical montage: steps rhythms, traditional gestures and postures.
“The most culturally mixed of the Tarahumara dances, a hermaphrodite dance says Raymonde. We may have captured a little of Artaud’s vision in the Le rite du peyotl chez les Tarahumaras.” (Régis Hébraud)
This film was shot during Easter 1985. It shows the preparation and staging of the Passion in the village of Norogachic, Mexico. The initiation rites of two Pascoleros, filmed for the first time, form the center of this document.
