Arnaud des Pallières

Party of Fools (2024)

Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of so-called 'madwomen', Fanni discovers a community of modern heroines who defy her expectations, along with ...

American Journal (2023)

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like "an old movie from the 20th century", invites us to meditate on what Des Pallières once liked to call "our old homeland". ...

Degas and I (2019)

Between dance and drawings, Arnaud des Pallières relates different moments of Degas's life and unveils some of his darker sides. ...

Orphan (2017)

A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine. ...

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to hav ...

Dust of America (2011)

A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent but eloquent home movies. ...

Diane Wellington (2010)

Diane Wellington disappeared in South Dakota in 1938 at the age of 15. She has just be found. ...

Parc (2009)

Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by his severe judgment of the world and a desire to be part of it. One day, their paths meet. Nail sees this me ...

Adieu (2004)

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him the time he is away. In the letters that he writes to the daughter that he left behind in his homeland, he ...

Disneyland, My Old Homeland (2000)

In the form of a diary and drawing on a wide range of literary references, Arnaud des Pallières delivers a critique of late capitalism and the spectacle-driven world through an examination of the famous park and its societal offshoots. ...

Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein (2000)

The life and work of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made me, but the half when I did what I did..."), presented in a montage of her autobiographical texts, with pict ...

Drancy Future (1997)

Director Arnaud de Pallières presents an experimental three-part film designed to stimulate the intellect and inspire reflection on the past. The first part tells the story of the last living Holocaust survivor, who is nearing the end of life and regrets ...

Les Choses rouges (1994)

Schoolchildren tell stories in class. A worker goes home after his work day. A scholar explains ideas about colours and objects in ancient Greek philosophy. ...

avant après (1993)

What is the Act of Creation? (1987)

A conference given by Gilles Deleuze on the act of creation, taped on video. ...

Disneyland, My Old Homeland (2000)

In the form of a diary and drawing on a wide range of literary references, Arnaud des Pallières delivers a critique of late capitalism and the spectacle-driven world through an examination of the famous park and its societal offshoots. ...