Robert Cahen Movies

A pivotal work for video art of the 1980s. Fragments of time during a journey where the changing landscapes become full players in a story shown in...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

The images of this short film are linked to the concrete music by Michel Chion, and let the monologue of Saint Antoine (Pierre Schaeffer's voice)...

It was in 1973 that this film, the first film shot in Super 8 mm with magnetic sound, was broadcast on television. The Carnival of Basel is famous...

Once a year, the city of Pisa is lit up by thousands of candles for an age-old religious festival. Magic, visions, dreams and light...

Temporary landscape; visual and sonic messages; blended; the city. Part of the "New Spaces" project, the film is an exploration of the landscapes...

In this vivid transposition of contemporary music for television, Cahen "responds" to the complex musical transitions of Répons, a work by...

From "That was..." to "...Did we go there?" The Antarctic approached, observed, scrutinised, analysed, displaced. Questions about reading the...

The light creates the motion. The film uses black and white as a way to to reveal things. Something is happening here linking death, love and...

The still photograph is transformed and reframed in time in these exquisite collections of thirty-second "video postcards." An image of a city...

A Japan where time stands still; Men and women bound to their land and their work; Bodies floating in thermal springs, shown through the eyes of a...

J.M. Tringaud photographed the sea. On the day of the summer solstice 1990, 12 bottles, each containing an original photo are cast into 12 seas and...

"It's in the idea of movement where, for me, something essential comes together/ combines-- Seven short poems write to each other in images, fleeting...

A contemporary dance video and a tribute to Patrick Bokanowski. The choreography of Bernardo Montet, conceived and created to be filmed by Robert...

Twins still in their amniotic fluid announce our human condition, our compulsion to walk, move forward, run. When everything moves, we go through the...

"L'invitation au voyage” is articulated around the combining of images of memories. On a technical level, this is obtained by using fading...

L'Eclipse, is composed as a visual little poem using light, colour, rhythm, to present a universe that is half celestial, half cerebral, in which...

The concept of "things half seen" determined the meaning of this film. Hidden scenes, barely revealed, follow one another as living and significant...