Guy Gilles

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment just before she is married to the old Pharaoh Amanophis III. She must say goodbye to her lover, the sculptor Yame. But in Egypt she appears to have a great talent for power. After the death of Amanophis she collapses on the heir to the throne Akhematon.

A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.

Portrait of the emblematic Brazilian filmmaker of the Cinema Novo movement: Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

This film was broadcast on La Sept in October 1990 as a part of Hélène Mochiri's Cinéma de poche program devoted to Soviet cinema. The documentary was produced in-house at La Sept and based on an exclusive interview with Alexei Guerman in May of that year. It has not been seen since.

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.

The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.

A verlan discussion in a cafe between two young people about a motorbike and girls.

Interviews in a big Parisian hotel with actresses who had their hour of glory. These former movie stars each describe the character who made them famous and tell what they became.

To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

A poetic, experimental film composed of fragmented images, voices, and urban impressions, where electricity becomes a metaphor for modern emotion and sensory overload. The film blends poetry and visual collage to evoke desire, memory, and the restless energy of contemporary life.

The real museum of Mexico City is the city, the street. To grasp the intangible, Guy Gilles decides to tell the story of Mexico by questioning the value of images and sounds, far from tourist clichés. The nightlife of Mexico City, his meeting with young Lupe, the hotel’s lifiter.

Marchers in an Indepence Day celebration in Mexico are transformed into tiny soldiers, tiny articulated automatons, turning a serious event into childlike playfulness.

The last episode of this passion, the opening of the cinema theater "l'Entrepôt" in Paris is an opportunity to dream even more about the possibilities offered by this profession. Before passing to the other side of the screen, in the arms of Michèle Morgan or the first steps in the cinema of a little boy named Frédéric Mitterrand.

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.

From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary language with fiction, embodied in the figure of a visitor in search of the places and faces that Proust loved, from the Illiers-Combray of his childhood to the longed-for Venice that he never got to know.

On the Champs-Élysées, between the shop windows, the cars, the passers-by, various characters cross paths. An old lady in a Rolls-Royce, a young house painter, a young couple.

The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.

It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Guy Gilles fell in love with her. She will appear in his films: "Courtyard side on the field side", then "Saint, martyr and poet". She will also sing for "Repeated absences" and "The garden that tilts".

Guy Gilles films the lives of young artists aged 12 to 18, members of a circus that has set up camp for two weeks at Porte Maillot in Paris. Between outdoor rehearsals and balancing acts, the filmmaker captures the fragile magic of adolescence and the spirit of freedom that comes with the dream of performing.

In the Saint-Lazare metro and station, a young man dreams of getting away from the dullness and everyday life. Colored snapshots of postcards, metro stations or signs, symbolizing distant destinations, mingle with black and white images of reality in a sort of invitation to travel.

A young man finds in an old abandoned farmhouse in Vans in Ardèche some fifty letters and a notebook forgotten there. Back in Paris, he discovers that it is a romantic correspondence between a young peasant girl and a captain during the 14-18 war. The film recreates this love story.

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart. She doesn't know that he's dead.

Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their views on literature and discuss what drives them to write.

Wanderings during the Cannes and Hyères 1966 festivals. Interviews with Louise de Vilmorin, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Louis Comolli, François Truffaut. Lunch on the grass of the Cahiers du cinéma, young onlookers on mopeds, children from the surrounding villages, the film portrays an era, a cinephilia, a cinema still in balance between art and industry.

A day in Aurillac on a rainy Sunday.

A geographical stroll through the Tuileries Garden in Paris, in November. Time to dream of an island in the heart of the city, open to every horizon.

Guy Gilles creates a brief, poetic evocation of Parisian cafés, from the most famous to the most popular. High-quality imagery and editing accompany a commentary tinged with nostalgia, presenting the cafés as places untouched by time.

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective.

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom.

An intimate and poetic homage to the seventh art and its threatened or disappeared temples.

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

Fleeting images of Paris in winter, the reflections of some Parisians on their city.

The creation of a painting by Francis Savel (aka Dietrich de Velsa, director of Équation à un inconnu) in his studio in Montmartre: the white canvas, the tests in charcoal, the drawing, the arrival of color. Outside it is winter.

The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where a young man with whom she was hopelessly in love had lived. The tenants grow up, get married, die. A whole life passes.

Algiers, summer, a Sunday. A young loving couple goes to Tipaza: strolls on the beach, detour to the dancing, scooter rides. Imperceptibly, the initial harmony cracks. At the bevel of kisses years go by too much.

The portrait of three young French people - a teenager, a young man and a young woman - wondering about leaving Algeria.