Joseph Morder

Lucien Lumière has just bought a camera. He wants to experiment. In a square, he discovers a young woman sitting on a bench and decides to film her...

Story of a squatter family told by a rat.

The families of Joseph and Yvette decide to marry them.

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin.

Poetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and white and freely inspired on Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.

Joseph Morder sur Radio Ark en Ciel is the sound recording of this meeting in which the filmmaker talks about his films and his famous Film Diary and about the Morlock Academy which he founded in 1980.

A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.

Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin expresses more and more the need to know the past Nina always tried to hide …

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 about the difficulty of filming.

A young man tired of writing and rewriting a screenplay decides to begin a Super 8mm film diary. He films his parents and those close to him and determines to tell the about his homosexuality.

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.

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 celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

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 commune with the invisible, they cry out, sing out, give out messages, each in their own way, in their own state of solitude. These are like multiple echoes that resemble waves in the water or stars in the sky. " Behind these images and sounds that have been stifled by today's society, Lehman hunts for noises, cries, songs, messages that go astray. He says that if we look at the invisible we may hear the words. He invites us to look beyond the appearances of social life and to vibrate in tune with life's polyphony that is all around us."

Guillaume, thirty years old, a man of images who never goes out without a filming device, decides one morning to take a voyage to Rouen empty-handed.

All of history, that of Christ or any other, permeates the world, leaves its mark, modifying and informing history, and all that the human reproduces and creates. The best way for historical interpretation or literary adaptation is to move as far as possible from literal interpretation. That is, it is a contemporary and personal interpretation. The story of Christ is an archetypal story. It has modified and informed a morality and a vision of the human being in the West, it must be taken for what it is and what it has become: matter.

On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this film is that of a trip the filmmaker made to the United States in 1982. But like all of Joseph Morder's diaries, it is first and foremost a poetic interior journey, a journey into the author's stream of consciousness...

In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.

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.

15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.

Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened.

A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of the artistic community of the last 20th century which attempts to answer these questions: Why film everyone? Why choose cultural personalities? How do the subjects look at their image? How much exhibitionism and narcissism is involved in being filmed?

On the occasion of the passing of Marcel Hanoun, Gérard Courant wanted to pay tribute to this companion whom he had known since 1975 by accompanying him with the song Avec le temps by Léo Ferré.

Madrid, a stroll in the Spanish capital with Joseph Morder followed by the snowstorm that paralyzed the Paris region on December 8, 2010.

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

Reel 3 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 8 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Reel 33 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Joseph Morder transforms his face.

Joseph Morder returns to Guayaquil, Ecuador, 40 years later, returns to be José and meets his past.

Joseph Morder begins to film his life with a cell phone and thus begins to realize some life-changing experiences in attempts to discover a new film language

Even flirting turns out to be dangerous, especially when the object of desire lives in a maid's room on the 6th floor of a Parisian apartment.

Six other months of my life (December 1979 – June 1980), from one decade to the next, a trip to Quebec, Brussels, Geneva and many other adventures.

Joseph Morder's fifth journal film shot from July to December of 1980.

The three presidents for life of the Morlock Academy are assassinated by the Academy's permanent secretary in a peaceful village in Ardèche.

Almost all of this episode of the Carnets filmés, with the evocative title, Tout est Brisé is devoted to the misdeeds of the storm of 26 December 1999 on the Bois de Vincennes, whose forest extends at the foot of my building. For several months, I was the cinematographic witness of this disaster which brought down more than half of the 130,000 trees in the Bois.

The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to December 2, 2006) is divided into four parts: Colas Ricard at Centre Pompidou, Joseph Morder at La Rochelle, the Filmer à tout prix Festival in Brussels, and Michel Nedjar and Jakobois at Centre Pompidou.

This episode of Carnets filmés, Délices lointains, which spans the year 2004, reaches its climax in its last part with my trip to Mexico with the photographer Barbara Peón Solis.

City of his childhood, Dijon and his friends are the heart of this Carnet Filmé.

The filming of Joseph Morder's Cinématon n°1968.

Max, a forty-year-old bachelor, receives a telephone call from a childhood friend, Charlotte, who left for Canada with her parents thirty years earlier.

Ghosts of the past have come to today's world. They have taken the appearance of human beings and have a story to tell us. A camera mobile phone is always in their field. Through the seasons and the places, they speak about war, about camps, about extermination. They have the duty to get into our memory.

The families of Joseph and Yvette decide to marry them.

A day spent by an old Jewish couple of Polish origin in the Parisian district of Belleville…

On April 28, 1985, Charle Lechar received another mysterious phone call...

On October 21, 1984, Charle Lechar received a mysterious phone call...

Lucien Lumière has just bought a camera. He wants to experiment. In a square, he discovers a young woman sitting on a bench and decides to film her...

Lucien Lumière has just bought a camera. He wants to experiment. In a square, he discovers a young woman sitting on a bench and decides to film her...

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.

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.

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.

Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin expresses more and more the need to know the past Nina always tried to hide …

In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.

Joseph Morder begins to film his life with a cell phone and thus begins to realize some life-changing experiences in attempts to discover a new film language

A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.

A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.

A film by Joseph Morder

Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.

A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.

A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.

Guillaume, thirty years old, a man of images who never goes out without a filming device, decides one morning to take a voyage to Rouen empty-handed.

Guillaume, thirty years old, a man of images who never goes out without a filming device, decides one morning to take a voyage to Rouen empty-handed.

On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this film is that of a trip the filmmaker made to the United States in 1982. But like all of Joseph Morder's diaries, it is first and foremost a poetic interior journey, a journey into the author's stream of consciousness...

On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this film is that of a trip the filmmaker made to the United States in 1982. But like all of Joseph Morder's diaries, it is first and foremost a poetic interior journey, a journey into the author's stream of consciousness...

On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this film is that of a trip the filmmaker made to the United States in 1982. But like all of Joseph Morder's diaries, it is first and foremost a poetic interior journey, a journey into the author's stream of consciousness...

In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.

In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.

In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.

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.

Using home movies of his family and of street views, the director traces his childhood in South America, his origins as a Polish Jew, and his relationship with his mother in a film version of a personal journal.

That day, Charlerine goes out, driven by a sudden urge to kill, kill, kill... The four films (Printemps, Ete, Automne and Hiver/Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter) have the same plot but are told in different ways: each season has its own rhythm.

A 40 minute long, Super 8 film

A Super 8, color and sound film by Joseph Morder.

A Super 8, color and sound film by Joseph Morder.

Six other months of my life (December 1979 – June 1980), from one decade to the next, a trip to Quebec, Brussels, Geneva and many other adventures.

A Super 8, color and sound film by Joseph Morder

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

A Super 8 film with sound by Joseph Morder.

Joseph Morder's fifth journal film shot from July to December of 1980.

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

That day, Charlerine went out, still overcome by an irresistible desire to kill, kill, kill...

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

The conclusion to the adventures of Charlerine Dupas.

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

A silent, Super 8 film in color by Joseph Morder.

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

A Super 8 film with sound by Joseph Morder.

A Super 8 film with sound by Joseph Morder.

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

A Super 8, color film with sound by Joseph Morder.

The three presidents for life of the Morlock Academy are assassinated by the Academy's permanent secretary in a peaceful village in Ardèche.

The three presidents for life of the Morlock Academy are assassinated by the Academy's permanent secretary in a peaceful village in Ardèche.

On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this film is that of a trip the filmmaker made to the United States in 1982. But like all of Joseph Morder's diaries, it is first and foremost a poetic interior journey, a journey into the author's stream of consciousness...

Suzanne and Albertine, her daughter, return to Omaha Beach, one of the D-Day beaches where their family has spent holidays for a Long time. The place is the scene of major family events. This time, Albertine has something to tell her mother.

Suzanne and Albertine, her daughter, return to Omaha Beach, one of the D-Day beaches where their family has spent holidays for a Long time. The place is the scene of major family events. This time, Albertine has something to tell her mother.

Max, a forty-year-old bachelor, receives a telephone call from a childhood friend, Charlotte, who left for Canada with her parents thirty years earlier.

Max, a forty-year-old bachelor, receives a telephone call from a childhood friend, Charlotte, who left for Canada with her parents thirty years earlier.

Magda Freund, widow, recently arrived from Argentina, visits a Parisian apartment. Although knowing that its owner does not want to rent it for the moment, Magda, mysteriously seduced by this place, wishes to meet him to convince him to change his mind. This man is called Marek Kowalski and lives in the outer suburbs. Magda decides to make the journey.

Magda Freund, widow, recently arrived from Argentina, visits a Parisian apartment. Although knowing that its owner does not want to rent it for the moment, Magda, mysteriously seduced by this place, wishes to meet him to convince him to change his mind. This man is called Marek Kowalski and lives in the outer suburbs. Magda decides to make the journey.

Something from over there is the story, the portrait and the tribute about a place of life and fictions where appear, sometimes, the memories of somewhere else.

A private detective, Assoud the Buffalo, feels lonely and is heading for deep depression at the beginning of the Parisian summer. Lucy, a friend, organises a mysterious meeting for him on the banks of the Canal St Martin.

A private detective, Assoud the Buffalo, feels lonely and is heading for deep depression at the beginning of the Parisian summer. Lucy, a friend, organises a mysterious meeting for him on the banks of the Canal St Martin.

A private detective, Assoud the Buffalo, feels lonely and is heading for deep depression at the beginning of the Parisian summer. Lucy, a friend, organises a mysterious meeting for him on the banks of the Canal St Martin.

Assoud, known as "The Buffalo", and his sister Louise are private detectives. One day, a mysterious character asks them to carry out an investigation into the places of his childhood in Cuba. In Havana, the siblings find their cousin Mimi Shanghai, and discover an evil beach haunted by a mysterious legend. They then set out for their client's childhood home. When the client decides to join them, they at last discover his face and enable him to come to terms with his past.

Assoud, known as "The Buffalo", and his sister Louise are private detectives. One day, a mysterious character asks them to carry out an investigation into the places of his childhood in Cuba. In Havana, the siblings find their cousin Mimi Shanghai, and discover an evil beach haunted by a mysterious legend. They then set out for their client's childhood home. When the client decides to join them, they at last discover his face and enable him to come to terms with his past.

Ghosts of the past have come to today's world. They have taken the appearance of human beings and have a story to tell us. A camera mobile phone is always in their field. Through the seasons and the places, they speak about war, about camps, about extermination. They have the duty to get into our memory.