Nicolas Klotz

Cosmocide (2023)

Charged with the turmoil of the (not-so) distant war in Ukraine, COSMOCIDE 2022 is akin to an audiovisual bouquet of glimpses from the fervent present that are deposited on the tomb of history. Both avant-gardist and primitive, the film bristles with forma ...

New World! (The World Anew) (2023)

On Ushant, where Jean Epstein retired to film "Finis Terrae" (1928), exploring the means of cinema to question reality. A century later, where do we stand? ...

Song for the Buried City (2022)

A partly silent, partly sung film, shot nowadays in the erased footsteps of the Calais Jungle after its destruction. A tribute that doesn't take a funeral angle, a tribute to the heroism of the displaced populations, driven out of sites at war devastated b ...

When the House Burns Down (2022)

From Brazzaville to Barcelona, a journey around the world in search of unique and diverse voices with the purpose of celebrating the collective dimension of life through words, music and the movement of bodies. ...

The Fire of Antifer (Materials for a Film in Progress) (2021)

In the beginning, Elisabeth picked yellow flowers. On the green hill, facing the sea, between a bunker, the glare of the sun, and the radiation from the wars in progress. In these times of confinement we film an hour a day, less than a kilometer away. It's ...

So Long Micheal (2021)

A portrait of the unforgettable actor Michael Lonsdale, already starring in La Question humaine: one last performance, between Artaud and Plutarch, before turning into impalpable stardust. ...

Let’s Say Revolution (2021)

Men and women are dancing feverishly for a long time. The dance of bodies turns into a filmic trance, fleeing turns into running away, with braided motifs that get revived with every race. The men who don't dance talk, recite, tell their own stories for an ...

Saxifrages, Four White Nights (2021)

« In the shadows of Low Life, a secret ceremony dedicated to thirteen guardians of humanity's common treasures, love and resistance, youth and poetry, equality and difference, insurrection and revolution. Saxifrages … These rootless plants' windblown de ...

Fugitive, Where Are You Running to? (2018)

Life for refugees and migrants stuck at Calais: Filmed amidst the camps, the beaches, the sea and the sky, impressions of the lived experiences of these people wavering between despair and hope. ...

The Wild Frontier (2018)

A growing city, where nearly 7,800 people lived, will be destroyed by 50% in February 2016. How will the 4,000 migrants expelled from the South zone reborn from their ashes in the northern zone. Before the state decided to annihilate the entire territory i ...

Friday the 13th (2016)

The day after the November 13th terrorist attack in Paris, Michka Assayas's weekly radio program on rock 'n' roll is haunted by this mass murder. ...

Mata Atlântica (2016)

A young girl disappears in a forest in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil. ...

Projet Castellucci (2015)

In the autumn of 2014, playwright and theatrical director Romeo Castellucci participated in the Festival d'Automne in Paris. Nicolas Klotz resumed the show, questioning its creator in a triptych dedicated to his daring creative process. ...

Momies et Mutants (2015)

Ceremony Brazza (2014)

Je Sais Courir Mais Je ne Sais Pas M’enfuir (2014)

Le vent souffle dans la cour d'honneur - Les utopies contemporaines du Festival d'Avignon (2013)

Najgo! (2013)

Hamlet in Palestine (2013)

When Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of the Schaubühne in Berlin, decided to go to Ramallah in September 2012 to stage Hamlet at the invitation of the Al-Kasaba Theatre, he knew that the Shakespearean verses would find a particular resonance there. T ...

Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles (2013)

This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval's 2015 feature, "Ceremony". ...

Low Life (2012)

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don't leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death ...

Vérité de la démocratie, Jean-Luc Nancy (1,2,3) (2011)

In 2009, Klotz and Perceval visit Jean-Luc Nancy at his home in Strasbourg, where they record a conversation in three intervals, in which the zenith of political discourse blends with everyday life. A lesson that is reflected in the communities at the cent ...

Mademoiselle Julie (2011)

Mademoiselle Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Count. The young woman of the title is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean (Nicolas Bouchaud), who is particularly wel ...

Dialogues clandestins Low Life (2011)

Heartbeat Detector (2007)

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business. ...

La Consolation (2007)

During a party, Camille speaks about her body that's in love and that science passes through, about time breaking down, and looks at the future. ...

La Consolation (2007)

Jeunesse d'Hamlet (2005)

The Wound (2005)

Blandine arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, seeking a reunion with her husband Papi in Paris. Despite articulate claims for asylum, she is held in a cramped cell along with a number of fellow Africans, humiliated, mistreated and told that they can e ...

Ton sourire pas enfoui (2004)

Dialogues clandestins 2003-2004 (2004)

Dialogues clandestins 2001 (2001)

Intertwined interviews of filmmaker Pedro Costa and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. ...

Ton doux visage (2001)

Paria (2000)

First part of a "trilogy of modern times" (the second one is La Blessure, and third - La question humaine). Paria follows the path of two characters, Momo and Victor. Momo –remarkably played by Gérald Thomassin– lives in the streets, while Victor, on ...

La nuit sacrée (1993)

A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he ...

The Bengali Night (1988)

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy. ...

Winston Tong In Studio (1984)

Winston Tong and collaborators are interviewed during a busy day at the recording studio. ...

Rock and Torah (1983)

This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons. ...

When the House Burns Down (2022)

From Brazzaville to Barcelona, a journey around the world in search of unique and diverse voices with the purpose of celebrating the collective dimension of life through words, music and the movement of bodies. ...

Ça a recommencé, l’émerveillement (2020)

Les amants cinéma (2008)