Patrick Genet

Quelque chose des hommes (2015)

ÊTRES VIVANTS (2014)

This film brings together in sequence shots men, animals and plants. It is an inventory of the cohabitation of living beings. Man's awareness of being alive among other living beings is diminishing. Gradually, we stopped considering animals and plants as t ...

Daddy, Daddy USA (2005)

Pierre Hodgson explores in this documentary race relations in the States as well as his father's past in journalism. ...

Histoire d'un secret (2003)

A young woman tries to understand the real circumstances of the death of her mother. ...

LES VISAGES (2003)

Nine perfectly silent faces follow each other in a static shot. These faces do not speak. They think, they think about their life. Will we be able to capture the flow of their thoughts by filming them? ...

Ma caméra et moi (2002)

Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up agree ...

Cherche avenir avec toit (1997)

Tierra de Avellaneda (1996)

A team of forensic anthropologists trying to identify three bodies that may belong to members of the Manfil family is drawing on various testimonies from survivors of that family. ...

Kleist (1993)

Readings. Heinrich von Kleist / Robert Walser. Contiguous. They talk about imagination. Walser imagines Kleist, Kleist nobody, but Penthesilea. In the new desert islands that are the enclaves of flowers of the city. Roses of sidewalks. Wild spaces with an ...

Été (1991)

The voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later. Others may be. Of chance. Which would cross in this narrative. When. The times have intermingled. The winds meet. History. Pictures. The summer. ...

Les heures (1990)

On the one hand: A frame - and then windows in the frame - Spiked - from one to the other - Images designated - fenced, inside / out. Every moment broken - repeated. Always past. One after the other. Cruelty of the open boundary itself - and immediately ...

Brise-glace (1990)

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej". ...

Le Mariage Blanc (1990)

A short film from 1990 by director Christine Carrière ...

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après... (1990)

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, a group of Haitians in Paris undertake a voodoo ritual in front of Les Invalides, to reconcile the spirits of Napoleon Bonaparte and Toussaint L'Overture, the Haitian revolutionary who died as a ...

Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu (1989)

Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles. ...

Mansfield K. (1988)

"Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles. Dominance of whites and blues. Fragility of tapered glasses." A visual evocation of the writing of Katherine Mansfield. ...

Brise-glace : Bateau givre (1987)

First part of the collaborative project "Brise-Glace" showing the diverse travels on the icebreaker "Frej". Directed by Jean Rouch. ...

Dehors (1985)

Landscapes. A utilitarian nature. Contemporary. Cruel images. Changing. Seasons. The watch could be eternal. Each image transparent and non-avenue. Only the sound volumes will unfold an obscure duration. ...

Georges Rousse (1985)

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. ...

Pour un temps (1984)

Film by Patrice Kirchhofer. ...

Laure (1984)

An unknown writer written under the pseudonym of Laure at the beginning of the century. Readings. Geography. The places of a writing. The forces that create, traverse and lose it. The two image strips will be contiguous on the same screen. Their continuous ...

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. ...

Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon (1983)

A fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras, a tape recorder, and three cameramen/directors, Raymond Depardon, Jean Rouch, and Philippe Costantini. ...

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. ...

L'escalier de la haine (1982)

Story of a squatter family told by a rat. ...

Le Dos au mur (1981)

Réserve (1981)

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

Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge (1981)

Tandis que j’agonise (1980)

Free adaptation of Faulkner's novel aroused by the Patrick Henry and Ranucci cases. ...

Au lieu (1980)

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

Je meurs de soif, j'étouffe, je ne puis crier... (1979)

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of representation, meets four characters who, each in their own way, give her a key to cross the five sequences/ini ...

Dehors (1985)

Landscapes. A utilitarian nature. Contemporary. Cruel images. Changing. Seasons. The watch could be eternal. Each image transparent and non-avenue. Only the sound volumes will unfold an obscure duration. ...