Philippe Grandrieux

A car, following the Tour de France. Children screaming in front of the puppet show. Women, often prostitutes, trying to scream as they are being strangled. (imdb)

The story follows a woman sold into prostitution and the young man who battles his own animalism while trying to save her.

The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests. A family lives isolated near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ecstatic, prey to epileptic fits, he is open to the nature around him. Alexi is terribly close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, their father and their little brother are the silent witnesses to their overwhelming love. A stranger arrives, a young man barely older that Alexi. (imdb)

Grandrieux pays an homage to Masao Adachi, a Japanese filmmaker with a turbulent past and now a recluse in his homeland, creating a portrait of this man always faithful in its very own way. (imdb)

In faint light, a body slowly moves, breaking out from total darkness. Then a second body, a woman. Dream or nightmare? Archaic or essential? Desire or struggle? A journey through the night and the light to the confines of sense and vision. (imdb)

White Epilepsy (2012), as we can remember, evoked the meeting of a man and a woman, or rather two archaic figures emerging from the depths of the night and images. Arrow slit is the second act of this trilogy whose "subject" as the filmmaker says "is anxiety'. What anxiety if not this throb, this agitation that makes us what we are and which lies at the core of our being, of our crafting of images. (FIDMarseille)

Lens returns to Paris to find his only true love, Madeleine. As his search for her continues, he finds himself getting sucked into the dark and cruel underworld of the porn industry. (imdb)

The third and final entry in Grandrieux's "Unrest" trilogy.

An installation presented on 11 screens featuring nude human figures engaged in cathartic performance.

Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the filmmakers explore this relationship through four distinct stories as to context and imaginary.