Georges Perec

Going Up Vilin Street (1992)

Evocation of N° 24 of Vilin Street where Perec lived his childhood. ...

Ellis Island Tales (1980)

"Ellis Island Tales" - From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit center was built, near the New York Statue of Liberty. "Ellis Island Tales, Stories of Wandering and Hope" ...

Return to the Beloved (1979)

Julien seeks to reconquer Jeanne, his ex-wife, of whom he is separated and who lives with another man. He is prepared to go far to make it happen. ...

Serie Noire (1979)

In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obsession deepens, his grip on reality begins to slip—and the line between escape and destruction starts to b ...

The Places of a Fugue (1978)

Directed by French author Geroges Perec, Les Lieux d'une fugue is an autobiographical account of the writer's experience of running away from his aunt's house at age 11. As much a meditation on the streets of Paris as it is personal narrative, Les Lieux d' ...

Ahô: The Forest People (1975)

The film is a portrait of various indigenous peoples around the world who still live traditional forest or jungle settings rather than westernized towns and cities, including groups from Cameroon, Brazil, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. ...

The Man Who Sleeps (1974)

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. ...

Georges Perec, The Man Who Refused to Forget (2021)

Ahô: The Forest People (1975)

The film is a portrait of various indigenous peoples around the world who still live traditional forest or jungle settings rather than westernized towns and cities, including groups from Cameroon, Brazil, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. ...