Manuel Otéro

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like a life parallel to my other films and film series (Cinema, Group Portrait, Read, etc.). They are also like a letter to the spectators.

Herbert, a Candide-like idealistic teenager, wants to become a doctor to help humanity, but his parents insist that he become a rich aviator. Herbert runs away to study medicine with a wise old Boulugre, and vows to help the natives of undeveloped countries. He finds that the Boulugres are a tribe whose men have a disgusting mushroom growing from their heads. He develops a vaccine for them, wants to give it to them free, and fights with Chousk, a pharmaceutical tycoon who wants to sell it to them. But the Boulugres are deathly afraid of needles and refuse to be inoculated by anyone. Herbert, disillusioned, escapes into love with a Yugoslav airline stewardess.

An early stop motion animated short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With puppets by Marc Caro.

A pioneer of cinema and inventor of the first moving images, Émile Reynaud achieved dazzling success before the advent of the cinematograph, but was sadly forgotten thereafter. Yet his pantomimes still fill us with wonder today.

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This film shows the instruments of the Vichy government's propaganda among young people and, more specifically, the images distributed in the form of ABC books, posters, newsreels or propaganda. It shows the speech of Pétain, Georges Lamirand, general secretary for youth, Marcel Déat, founder of the National Popular Rally and Jacques Doriot, founder of the French Popular Party.

Emile takes a walk, and along the way transforms into a snowman and other creatures. Animated short.

A César nominated short documentary film investigating this volcanic eruption, what caused it and just how high the debris went up into the sky.

A lampoon against the absurdity of war and those who make it. The denunciation takes place with laughter and gags but not without forgetting the seriousness of the subject.

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An animated short featuring a man struggling with a noisy pair of shoes.

Two train tracks are getting ready for a tiresome day.

"The idea of a composite work, a puzzle and the ideal solution for clear minded lovers of parallel worlds that complement each other." (Robert Benayoun)