Gisèle Rapp-Meichler

Ne dominez pas vos passions (2019)

The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People (2018)

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutritional pro ...

Nivose (2017)

Snow is suspended. It becomes rare. The wonder is in peril. The extraordinary atmosphere which it induces and which suspends the stifled daily life, moves away from our impatience. Snow is a curtain behind which capitalist issues are going on, the conseq ...

Above the Clouds (2014)

A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds. ...

Between Two Worlds (2010)

The young man fell from the sky. Communication relay burns. Flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. Become part of another story. That of the legend of the prince. In the hope of a love, hiding behind the hollow in a tree. Nothing magic is ...

Vanitas (2009)

A vanity. Shot in SVHS in 1995 during the destruction of a concrete church in the rue de la Roquette in Paris, the film becomes a vanity in 2009, assuming the degradation of the tape. ...

Jeu et serieux (2009)

Cine-tract. Contribution to the collective film CONTEMPT & REBELLION. Against the political arrogance, it's time to remind us recipes of action that have already been proposed and to use them. ...

Rosa Rot (2001)

ROSA ROT gives two frameworks and two points of view: the abstract one, of a free inner thought as manifested by the visual immersion in a piece of landscape subject to constant change, striated by gales mingled with the incessant fall of thick snowflakes ...

Dédale (1993)

Separation of the functions and circulations in architecture and town planning: DES DALLES (FLAGSTONES). Ironic, methodical and critical journey of these places: DEDALE. Cinema is critique of reality. When this reality is already ideologically "mise en scà ...

No Hans Land (1988)

A series of episodes inspired by the popular Alsatian character "Hans im Schnockeloch", "who has everything he needs, wants nothing he has but has nothing he wants". "We wanted to restore some radical vitality to this typically Alsatian character. Incisive ...

Conversio At Fantasmata (1987)

Following the movie : "Au Lieu". A cinematic reading of the metaphor between the city of Rome and the unconscious, in which Freud introduces Civilization and Its Discontents. "A dream of a place, a stone and of présence. A photographic pilgrimage from the ...

Allers-Venues (1984)

A month in the country. In summer, a group of friends rent a house in southern France. People come and go, making their way through chickens, dogs and cats. Playful sounds and a wacky collage of music make up the soundtrack. ...

Copacabana Beach (1983)

A humorous glimpse of what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana Beach. Physical fitness, Brazilian style, with a dash of soccer and hints of Carmen Miranda. ...

Deux temps, trois mouvements (1982)

Research of cinematographic adequacy with the plastic and technological work of the artist Piotr Kowalski. Document on the setting up of the "Time Machine" exhibition at the Center Georges Pompidou (1981/82). ...

Movie (1982)

With a super 8 camera from Paris to Berlin, from Amsterdam to Rio, from Jerusalem to New York shooting only at night. Hungarian crooners, Indian tribal chants, opera arias, and an occasional samba make up the sound track of this "hand-held" diary. ...

Réserve (1981)

Animated scouting whose primary goal is to reactivate the poetry of myths in urban areas. ...

Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge (1981)

Au lieu (1980)

Based on a dream, superposition of ruined castles, scree and poetic fragments in the Alsatian winter. ...

La pierre, l'eau (1979)

That which changes and that which remains. ...

Allée des signes (1976)

In order to describe the metamorphoses undergone by the city of Paris, Gisèle Rapp-Meichler et Luc Meichler began from Guy Debord's texts on psychogeography to make Allée des signes, the last Situationist film-essay. ...

Réserve (1981)

Animated scouting whose primary goal is to reactivate the poetry of myths in urban areas. ...