Dominique Païni

Godard Cinema (2023)

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most ...

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art (2021)

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 2 ...

La photo (2014)

Five, even six, variations on a theme, commentary and interpretation of the same photograph. An exercise to tell and summarize the history of the Cinémathèque française. ...

My Conversations on Film (2013)

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and ...

2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder (2007)

Around Jean Cocteau (2003)

A short video by filmmaker Noel Simsolo discussing Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville's creative relationship and the production of the 1950 film LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES. ...

2000 Cinématons (2001)

A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of th ...

Le journal de Joseph M. (2000)

Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve (1999)

The Persistence of Vision (1993)

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet. ...

Cinématon XXXIV (1984)

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon n°333 : Dominique Païni (1984)

Cinématon XI (1981)

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon n°100 : Dominique Païni (1980)

Dominique Paini's portrait by Gérard Courant (1980 - silent). ...

Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve (1999)

Citizen Langlois (1995)

This French documentary pays homage to a young man whose passion left a rich and valuable legacy to the world of cinema. Henri Langlois was one of the co-founders of the Cinematheque Francaise, a museum which contains many rare artifacts from early cinema ...

The Enclosed Valley (1995)

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can't really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, 'that without a thing changing, everything is different.' The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The ...

Louvre City (1990)

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, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and ...

Black Sin (1989)

A companion piece to the earlier film 'The Death of Empedocles', 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin's play 'Der Tod des Empedokles'. ...