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- A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
- "Cleopatra" situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's "Cleopatra" (1963), which Auder's cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol's ensemble.
- After having spent a year in Warhol's Factory, painter Olivier Mosset returned to Paris with an appetite for film and began hosting Super 8 nights in his apartment. "Un FilmPorno" is a miniature sample.
- A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.
- As part of the Zanzibar group of independent French filmmakers starting in 1968, movies mostly in black and white and often silent, this is a woman's experimental assemblage of sequence shots and repeated actions, provocative, and daringly feminist for its time.
- A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.
- A pitch-black and milk-white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with Salvador Dalí, Barbet Schroeder, and Jean Mascolo - the solarized image reminiscent of thick strokes of a paintbrush.
- With its title taken from Georges Bataille's journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval's film is the most literary of the Zanzibar works. The film opens with an illustrative image: a head in the process of being shaved, in close up. This image is accompanied not by the sound of an electric razor but an electric saw, suggesting the need to achieve a tabula rasa by radical means. The story follows the adventures of a young man and his friends as they wander through a barely recognizable post-May 1968 Paris. In documenting the by-gone expressions and gestures of the '68 generation in France, Acéphale becomes something of an anthropological film that reveals the rites and beliefs of the ideological novitiates.
- A painter presents his own kind of "making of" documentary, without dialogue, playing games with light and superimpositions.
- "Destroy Yourself" is a 'primitive' film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It's the first Zanzibar film (and predates the very naming of the movement), an attempt to make a film which defies the rules of production, the production line of commerce.
- La Concentration features an androgynous young man and woman, dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed.
- Maddening and mysterious,with the elements-ocean, wind, rocky terrain-dominating the scenes.
- Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May '68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci.
- Writer Nicole Brenez sums up this Zanzibar group short as : If Rimbaud had made a film in Abyssinia.Actor director Pommereulle dances a series of gestures,spells and outbursts against Western civilization in an African desert setting.
- In this Zanzibar group feature, producer and director Boissonas uses her own body in long take sequences to describe the psychic experience of depression.
- In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of shows and the spectator? How does meaning travel in the story? These are the questions posed and proposed by the film.