Luc Chessel

This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”.

Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain.

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death, bodies are falling. Panicked at the idea that he could get arrested, Carmen forbids him to go out, and locks herself with him. Gradually, Hussain get the feeling that she is watching him…

Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the night, they leave the city for the forest. In the silence of the moonlight nature, the desire between the two friends becomes increasingly vibrant. A new day is born from their friendship.

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.

On the one hand, the stories of Simon Johannin, raw and tender, dirty and sensitive, stemming from the asphalt, from a chaotic feeling of everyday life, from a certain youth. On the other, the performance techno of Jardin, autotuned, ambient, or projected into a wall of noise. In this performance Simon Johannin unfolds the monologue of a man talking to himself to cling to reason.

Four seasons to tell the fluctuating moods and mores of a small community that shares its daily chores and life experiences in the military base of Fort Buchanan. In this imagined (perhaps dreamed?) location, peculiar habits respond to the needs of a peculiar environment. Roger, a fragile gay man, and his female companions, trying to cope with the absence of their husbands, go through their own brand of challenges for survival, with their own form of outdoor camaraderie, thought-occupying chat and DIY activities. Roger has a tough daughter who runs him ragged, but he has buddies willing to help: Justine, Denise, Pamela and Claudia-Joy.

Andréa spends the summer writing in a holiday home. Inconsolable after a break-up, she urges her sister Ninon to join. But her ex-girlfriend Elise unexpectedly shows up to patch things up. And it’s already too late to tell Ninon not to come. Let the full game begin.

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

Two teenagers meet one Saturday evening to hang out together. While they cross Paris, meetings and disappointments are linked and push them to ask themselves about the feelings they have.

Ideas improve. With the help of the meaning of words. Plagiarism is essential. Progress implies it. It embraces a writer's sentence, uses his expressions, erases a false idea, replaces it with the right one.

An old thunderstorm rumbles in my head. A thunderstorm born 25 years ago. A storm at times distant, almost forgotten. A thunderstorm often deafening. Literature assured me men existed for a long time. Music taught me their melancholy preceded them. Painting whispered to me that screams can be silent. The trade of men, very fast, seemed to me vague and vain.

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.

Thomas, a Swiss-German musician, is stuck at home because of a broken foot. He wanders around his tiny Parisian flat, his leg in a plaster, busy composing a new piece. At sunrise, an unexpected female visitor is showing up for him at the door.

Marie, 22, works in her parent’s hotel-restaurant, a place of hard-work where three generations mix but barely speak to each other. Suzanne, 42, shows up for the night. She ends up staying two nights, then three and finally settles for a moment. To Marie, she’s a simple customer. Yet Suzanne did not choose this hotel by accident.

Marta, Luc and Charlotte, aged twenty-five to thirty-years old, have a lot to share in the city of Paris: friendships, demands and refusals. Ideas grow in the occupied university departments. THE EPISODES - SPRING 2018 is so singular in its approach to existence and so sovereign in the way it establishes its own language that all attempts at defining, assigning a genre or a previously identified aspect of film, are doomed to failure. All we have to do is open up the dictionary: after all, that was Ponge’s reaction when confronting the unknown. « Episode. A work’s division including several parts, each forming a self-sufficient whole. A more or less striking moment in a lifetime. A set of actions, of events forming a whole and making up a striking moment in history or time. »

Marta, Luc and Charlotte, aged twenty-five to thirty-years old, have a lot to share in the city of Paris: friendships, demands and refusals. Ideas grow in the occupied university departments. THE EPISODES - SPRING 2018 is so singular in its approach to existence and so sovereign in the way it establishes its own language that all attempts at defining, assigning a genre or a previously identified aspect of film, are doomed to failure. All we have to do is open up the dictionary: after all, that was Ponge’s reaction when confronting the unknown. « Episode. A work’s division including several parts, each forming a self-sufficient whole. A more or less striking moment in a lifetime. A set of actions, of events forming a whole and making up a striking moment in history or time. »

Two boys meet by the side of a road. A strange desire drives them to cross the volcanic landscapes of Auvergne together, like a huge treasure hunt. To probe the mysteries that inhabit the mountains, they tell old stories of condemned wizards, spells cast in secret, forgotten sabbaths. Haunted by these stories, they gradually become the protagonists, until these adventures reflect on the present of their meeting.