Lého Galibert-Laîné

I Would Like to Rage (2023)

From role playing games to animated GIFs, from reenacted performances to poetic writing, this video essay asks: what is an authentic expression of anger? ...

GeoMarkr (2023)

A film that brings two worlds into dialogue: that of the online game GeoGuessr and that of the filmography of Chris Marker, the filmmaker and multimedia artist, deeply fascinated by digital technology and travel. ...

Bottled Songs 1-4 (2021)

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters wi ...

Bottled Songs: The Observer (2020)

A researcher finds a phone video showing hundreds of ISIS captives running through a desert. She is puzzled that the video is posted on YouTube by Les Observateurs, a French state-funded news channel as a work of "citizen journalism". While the video has ...

A very long exposure time (2020)

Inventing a poetic path through images created with Louis Daguerre's centuries-old photographic device, 16mm film cameras, pixelated video games consoles, early smarphones and contemporary computer interfaces, the work asks: what aspects of reality have th ...

Forensickness (2020)

A film about Chris Kennedy's Watching the Detectives (2018), a detective comedy appropriating for its own purposes the principle of its model: inquiring about the inquirer. ...

Bottled Songs 1 & 2 (2020)

Two researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the media's role in spreading this message. Exchanging video letters recorded from their computer desktops, the res ...

Watching the Pain of Others (2019)

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions ...

Re-enacting the Future (2019)

A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V: Absence, 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Special thanks to Bero Beyer. Dedicated to the film I DO NOT CARE IF WE ...

Planning Unexpected Encounters: the Making of Route One USA by Robert Kramer (2018)

A poetic journey through the collages of paper maps made by Robert Kramer during the preparation of the shooting of Route One USA, to which are superimposed excerpts from his diary, and scenes from the finished film. How do you prepare a shoot when your de ...

Flânerie 2.0 (2018)

At the turn of the 20th century, the 'flâneurs' started disappearing from the Parisian landscape. Walter Benjamin became, in his posthumous book 'Das Passagen-Werk', the witness of their extinction. What if one century later, against all odds, the art ...

Reading Binging Benning (2018)

How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning. ...

Bottled Songs 3 & 4 (2018)

This video presents Chapters 3 and 4 from the series. « The Spokesman » (aka « A Guide to be driven ») investigates the online traces of John Cantlie, a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State's propaganda video ...

Dupieux / Haneke - an essay on metacinema (2017)

What do the numerous similarities between the films of Michael Haneke and Quentin Dupieux reveal about their respective filmmaking strategies? ...

The Human, The Machine, and Spike Jonze (2017)

Why Framing Matters in Movies (2017)

Produced as part of an end-of-the-year series of videos looking back at films released in 2015, this video essay asks: when does the act of framing an image become a political gesture? ...

Bottled Songs: My Crush Was a Superstar (2017)

"This video was produced as part of an ongoing collaborative project on terrorist media. The project aims to explore the contents and contexts for production of terrorist media and to question how these images migrate from social media to news broadcasts, ...

The Burrow (2015)

Odile lives alone. Afraid that someone might enter her flat when she's not at home, she enters a video surveillance online community, in the hope that users will keep an eye on her apartment and inform her in case of unexpected intrusion. And the intrusion ...

About Three Women I Met Lately (2022)

Documentary by Occitane Lacurie. ...

Bottled Songs 1-4 (2021)

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters wi ...

Watching the Pain of Others (2019)

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions ...