Yves-Marie Mahé

Experimental and anarchist young generation before May of 68'.

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.

Police everywhere, finesse nowhere!

Work is the best police (Nietzsche).

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...

Jeune Cinéma is a footage film documentary about the famous yet forgotten Hyères Film Festival which took place from 1965 to 1983. It was at that time the most important in France just after the glamorous Cannes Film Festival and a friendly place to discover young directors such as Gilles Garrel, Akerman, Helma Sanders, Schroeter or Carax before they became a legend for the art-house film amateurs. Hyères was a vivid space for passionate debates, incredible polemics and above all surprising encounters. In a word, it was THE place to be for all the cinephiles. If it suddenly disappeared in 1983, it is not only because of internal and political conflicts but also for an unfair competition with Cannes. The « Perspectives » section at Cannes, widely inspired by Hyères, was attracting those same young talents discovered there. My personal history as a filmmaker is deeply tied to the “Collectif Jeune Cinéma”, which was in charge of the “Cinéma Différent” section.

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Your fly is open.

On Sunday October 16, 2011, between going to vote or making this film, I did not hesitate.

Forms are born and die.

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.

Amort is a 35mm trailer of an action film, spoiled by bleach and by digital process.

Music avant-garde seen by french traditional cinema.

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.

Get up from your chair so that we can see your ass.

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

Human nature is such that parents love their children more than the other way around. This film explains why.

Arsehole voters.

Sexual music like french towns.

Collage from 35 mm trailers.