Cinematography: Alain Mazars

Direction Alain Mazars

Cast Anne-Marie Arrignon · Gérard Gonod · Sylvie Peppermint · Carole Peppermint

Plot A girl uses spiritualism to escape her loneliness and neurasthenia. Inspired by practices more or less close to magic, she tries to create two characters that will be part of...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot Special Jury Mention at Hyères International Film Festival in 1983. “When my eyes, closed for an icy terror, opened again, at my side, scented on the canvas, these faces were...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot It is the story of a fascination that is told in the film, that exercised by the isolation of hermits in the forest, a tradition still alive in Burma. This...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot Documentary filmed in 1985 in Lhasa, capital of Chinese Tibet, temporarily reopened to foreigners. From prayer wheels to thermoses filled with hot tea flavored with yak butter, passing through traditional...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot It is an experimental film where the filmmaker questions the desire of a film viewer to narrate. This film revives the spirit of research that began with silent cinema, with...

Direction Alain Mazars

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot Shot in Myanmar, this impressionist documentary shows the daily life of a Burmese nun, taking us from a convent to a singular monastic school. The film is centered on the...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot This film from the human fascination with immortalié stone, described by Roger Caillois in his book STONES. A cult of the stone has a long history in Asian countries like...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot An old Eurasian backpacker who dreams of becoming a shaman... A widespread rumor in Southeast Asia saying that nomads hidden in a forest can raise the dead... A criminal who...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot In 1967, in the middle of the Chinese cultural revolution, an opera singer is sent to the other side of the country to be “re-educated”. He leaves behind his young...

Direction Alain Mazars

Cast Devon Bostick · Maury Chaykin · Atom Egoyan · David Hemblen

Plot The strange case of Atom Egoyan attempts to reveal filmmaker Atom Egoyan's creative process, throwing light on what might be its most enigmatic and personal side: writing. Starting with his...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot The relationship with the real is the subject of our film. Constructed in reverse chronological order as a puzzle, it explores how China became what it is through the work...

Direction Alain Mazars

Cast Lee Chang-Dong · Yoo Ah-in · Jeon Do-yeon · Song Kang-ho

Plot A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot Experimental diary shot in 1978-1979 when Alain Mazars was a volunteer teacher in China, 2 years after Mao’s death. We see a few pictures, by candlelight, and they flash before...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot Holy Week, in Spain, stays a very popular festival, despite its ancientness. In this experimental movie, I filmed Holy Week in Sevilla, because it is amazing and queerish. This film...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot Shot in Madrid, in a carnival. The subject of the film is suggested by the spanish title. From “roda”, I kept 2 connected meanings : the circular motion and movie...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot The narrator looks for Khema, a missing shaman singer in Laos. His investigation progressively becomes an initiatic travel among outcasts, renowned for their magical powers, accused to be “phipop”, supernatural...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot A young aristocrat is seduced by a young man who appeared to her in a dream one spring afternoon. Captive of this impossible love, the young girl is dying of...

Direction Alain Mazars

Plot Here the codes are both amplified and distanced by an expressionist plastic that for the first time perhaps in Expressionism, takes humor into account. Some very close-ups of flowers, insects,...