Yves-Marie Mahé

Following the release of Bérurier Noir's album "Concerto pour détraqués" on the Bondage label in 1985, the French punk scene began to organize itself and attract media attention. Following Bondage's example, François Hadji Lazaro founded the Boucherie Production label. The departure of bands to major companies, Bérurier Noir's lawsuit against its label Bondage, and above all the breakup of the band marked the end of an era.

Founded in the second half of the 1990s, the experimental film association L'Etna witnessed the transition from film to digital cinema. Its premises, located in the heart of Paris, were unable to withstand gentrification.

From 1988 to 1994, near Père Lachaise cemetery on the eastern side of Paris, the Etablissements phonographiques de l’Est (Eastern Phonographic Venue), aka EPE, was a multidisciplinary venue hosting the crême de la crême of the international experimental, radical, industrial, noise, avant-punk scene. A record shop during the day, an underground venue at night hosting in its basement gigs, performances, screenings of video art and experimental cinema, readings, bondage workshops, fanzine exhibitions. At the junction of late 80’s and early 90’s, EPE saw the end of industrial music and the birth of the still highly influential avant-punk scene.

A documentary on underground and experimental rock acts performing at Les Instants Chavirés, a music venue in Montreuil, France. Performers include Thierry Madiot, Peter Brötzmann + Han Bennink, The Ex + Tom Cora, Roof, Hint + Quentin Rollet, Kampec Dolores, Prolapse, King Biscuit, Zeni Geva, Melt Banana, Purr, Badgewearer, Heliogabale + Didier Petit, Keiji Haino, Oxbow, US Maple, New Bad Things, Tiger Lillies, Marc Ribot, KK Null, Api Uiz, Labradford, Godspeed You Black Emperor, De Kift, Sophie Agnel & Roro Perrot.

Portrait of pioneering LGBT filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, who passed away in February 2025. His work lies at the crossroads of several film traditions that rarely intersect: experimental, activist, pornographic, and diary film. Based on both public and private interviews with Lionel Soukaz.

Tribute to Anicée Alvina.

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Arsehole voters.

The alarm rings. It’s time. What time ? Time to fuck! And if the woman is emacipating herself by sleeping with another woman it’s the moment for the husband to discover them together. From here the film is metric, which is to say that all the shots are constituted from 9 images or their multiples. The film is named ‘Hybrid’ because different shots from different films tell the same story, that of the man who fucks the woman who fucks the man. All in all of the man who fucks the man.

Work is the best police (Nietzsche).

Variation on a fixed sequence of a corridor taken from Erick Rohmer’s Pauline à la Plage. At the end of the corridor, there is a door that one can open or shot. This door and the action around it is the focus point to Rohmer’s film. In mine, the plot focus more specifically on the left door, the one we won’t see on screen.

Erotica short film.

Experimental and anarchist young generation before May of 68'.

After the juvenile fashion of "Air Guitar" (mimicking the gesture of a guitarist without having the instrument in hand), here comes "Air pool fuck". A man and a woman make love here... each in his own pool.

Your fly is open.

2 cars are seeking for each other, brushing against each other, slipping into each other.

Holiday film where the camera has directly influenced the people filmed and has prompted a series of nude scenes.

With this title, Philippe Clair summed up what a maze is: "Where did you enter? We didn't see you go out".

After turning off the TV, a man finds out that he is sharing the apartment with someone else. The latter is unhappy that the television is turned off. Two new characters appear in the room to decide between them and it's a mess...

At the start of each new verse is added an overlay layer of the same offbeat images and sounds. It follows a result close to phasing, the technique developed by Steve Reich. Reich used tape recorders to repeat the same portion of sound with a time lag between the two parts, the classic cannon technique. In the canon, different voices interpret the same melodic line, but in a different way: this shift produces a superposition of melodies, that is to say, a counterpoint. Counterpoint is a discipline of musical writing whose object is the organized superposition of distinct melodic lines.