Stéphane Marti

Marcel Mazé, les forces de l’ombre et de la lumière (2012)

It is a fragmented portrait where Marcel embodies different characters, a mischievous dandy immersed in a profusion of shimmers and erotic pictures, a bewitching photographer featuring nonchalant beauties like Sicilian shepherds or a black angel, romantic ...

Une aurore sans fin (film manifeste) (2011)

In this film-manifesto, set to music by Berndt Deprez, Stéphane Marti condenses 35 years of creation. Placed under the sign of experimental cinema, as defined by its most brilliant historian Dominique Noguez, the excerpts of many films, re-articulated in ...

Purple Kiss (2011)

A seraphic creature named Vyva - both Queen of Sheba, Moon Pythia, Spider-Woman and Mary Magdalene - offers kisses, caresses and jewelry to a man coming out of her dream box ... and who could be Jesus. Bewitching and sacred electroacoustic music, incantato ...

Les jardins de la Barrueca (2010)

Film-portrait about the works and the furniture-jewels carefully installed in Monique Delvincourt's gardens, precious accomplice in baroque of the film-maker. The twirling camera captures, in brief jerks and gestures, rituals of adornment on languid bodies ...

Les amants rouges (2009)

Powered by the performances of sexy boys and girl (and a mischievous photographer) and texts by Dominique Noguez, punctuated by a musical lyricism that combines classical Arias, dandy rock and bewitching Arabic chant, this film is conceived as a long poem ...

Sur mon cou (2009)

Extracts of Le Chant d'Amour (1950) by Jean Genet, absolute fetish movie-poem, are screened as moving tattoos on a lying body who surrenders to bites of sensuousness. ...

Oratorio (2008)

Through the lyricism and the baroque energy of the famous Christmas oratorio, super-8 pictures with a prevailing black colour catch in a jerky way an elfic trio of merry male accompplices wandering through the Père Lachaise cemetery. Some sentences taken ...

Alléluia (2008)

Halleluia : one of the most beautiful prayers in the world, a magnificent and distributing piece from Leonard Cohen, wavering between the sacred and the profane, suggesting pain, pleasure, lust, and lost physical love ; a mournful eroticism chanted with se ...

L'homme qui danse (2007)

Set during the Paris Pride 2007, a dervish dancer talks about his ecstasy for his art, his connection to a greater spirit, a greater world, a greater pain. ...

Quelques fleurs pour un chant d'amour (2006)

Two merry partners, fleshy roses and an improvised dance celebrate this glamrock jewel that glorifies the ambiguity of desire. ...

La beauté du diable (2006)

The Devil's beauty is first a garden lived by fettereds statues, bodies tensed between sensuality, damnation and sacred. The film seduce by a brillant camera editing as a clear music. In a singular rhythm, images fall down as flights of quavers before a sh ...

Sweet (2004)

Gestures are full of sensuality, colours are intense, pleasure of the Super 8 and a dizzy feeling remind us of dreams. ...

Mira corpora (2004)

The film appears like a ritual with splendids and crypteds psalms. The Great Master of Order (Marcel Mazé, new fetish actor after Aloual) seduces the young male prey with a running cinema projector which carves Murnau's Nosferatu extracts on their bodies. ...

Le veau d'or (2002)

Between music and silence, a pale boy handsome as a statue by Canova and a flamboyant black boy in a ritual photographed by Marcel Mazé. With the presence of a Michel Journiac's self-portrait sculpture, votive offerings of sacred skulls and crucifixes, dr ...

Le rituel de Fontainebleau (2000)

This film is built as a funeral ceremony ; it conveys an investigation on the underworld. In an environment of devastated telluric forces (one-hundred-year-old trees from the Fontainebleau forest were uprooted by the storm of 1999 winter). There is a super ...

Les métaphores d'Alex (1998)

With an editing engraved as a jewel, this movie is a real neo-baroque manifest. On the one hand, the Seine's sparkling, the Alexandre III bridge's sculptures and the majestic stairs descents of a mysterious personage ; on the other hand, the brilliance of ...

Michel, the Magisterium of the Body (1996)

A barocco environment inspired by shared desires and fantasy (that led to the co-writing of Corptrass, a scenario by Michel Journiac and Stephane Marti in 1980) shelters fragments of the story, passion and doubts of the master of Corporal Art. ...

Climax (1983)

The paths of eight characters brush against one another, collide, avoid one another, attract one another or clash in the texture of a Super 8 ballet film. Climax attemps to transalte the sensation of a nightmare which, by nature evades reality, fiction and ...

Images noires (1982)

Diasparagmos: Rituel dionysiaque (1980)

An avant-garde short film. ...

Ora pro nobis (1979)

Allegoria (1979)

Metamorphoses, rites of passage, Eros and Thanatos, illusion and reality, and film within a film are the key themes and images in perpetual osmosis within this film. ...

Transfiguration (1979)

Carried by chamanics and cosmics vibrations music, this movie present us Aloual, the fetish actor, in a kind of naked and listless semi-captivity. Sustained by bandages, half floating in the airs, arrowed by glances, this St-Sebastian is the heart of a ri ...

Ex-communion (1978)

Michel Journiac's actions (1935-1995) are unique works and have never been repeated (except for the first, Mass for a body, 1969). Only photographs, films or videos testify to their existence. ...

La cité des neuf portes (1977)

Filmmaker and teacher, Stéphane Marti has been researching experimental cinema as an art form liberated of aesthetic codes and the economics of big budget cinema. His work is primarily focused on the themes of the sacred and the human body. An avid suppor ...

In contextus (1976)

Around three boys accomplices to playful and shy grace, Stéphane Marti inaugurates his cinematographic writing. ...

Ladyman (1976)

Ritual of seduction led by Aloual, principal actant of the filmmaker's first films. This ritual, carried by the rock energy of the divine Lou Reed, accelerates in a frenzied gesture that develops the erotic imagination... Ambiguity of the male nature... g ...

Corpress (1975)

Portraits / Mirrors (1984)

A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Gérard Courant, Berndt Deprez, Bertrand Gadenne, Mythia Kolésar, Christian Lebrat, S ...

Diasparagmos: Rituel dionysiaque (1980)

An avant-garde short film. ...

Cinématon IV (1978)

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...