Nicolas Philibert Movies

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s,...

Staying up day and night and occupying a hairdressing salon at 57 Bd de Strasbourg in Paris, eighteen undocumented workers are on strike since May...

Anyone who has ever ventured to the "Land of the Deafs" will have been struck by the strangeness of the choreographed signs with which deaf people...

Every year, thousands of students – mostly female – embark upon courses that will lead them to become nurses. This film follows the ups...

From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we asked one and the same question of various people we...

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the...

This is a peaceful conversation between two filmmakers, Nicolas Philibert and Jean-Louis Comolli. A conversation, or the pleasure of spending time...

In the summer of 1995, as every year, the patients and staff of "La Borde" psychiatric clinic rehearse their summer play for a performance on August...

Interview with Jack Thiney, taxidermist at the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Complementary bonus film to the DVD edition of "Animals"...

A new shorter and uncensored TV version of Patrons - Télévision (1979). The dates "1978 / 1991" are used in reference to the "missing...

Clinging to the middle of the mountain like so many spiders, a dozen filmmakers and mountain guides busy themselves above the abyss to film...

In a workshop in the National Natural History Museum (Paris), a taxidermist undertakes the task of stuffing a badger. This film was earmarked for the...

This fascinating French documentary chronicles the reopening of the Zoology Hall in the Paris Museum of Natural History in 1993. It had been closed...

July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and the cinema studios to go to Chamonix where the...

A TV-special offering more than three and a half hours of the latest standout production in the diverse and eclectic world of short films and...

While shooting Gerard Mordillat's film, "Billy ze Kick", Christophe Profit, one of the best climbers in the world, was asked to stand in for an...

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb...

This film was made for the Grande Galerie in the National Natural History Museum in Paris, retracing the major stages of its recent restoration.

Interview with Emmanuelle Laborit, actress and director of the company l'International Visual Theatre (IVT). Complementary bonus film to the DVD...