, 30minutes Directed byChris Marker, Alain Resnais OriginFrance GenresDocumentary ThemesFilms set in Africa, Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films ActorsJean Négroni Rating74% The film exhibits a series of sculptures, masks and other traditional art from Sub-Saharan Africa. The images are frequently set to music and cut to the music's pace. The narrator focuses on the emotional qualities of the objects, and discusses the perception of African sculptures from a historical and contemporary European perspective. Only occasionally does the film provide the geographical origin, time period or other contextual information about the objects. The idea of a dead statue is explained as a statue which has lost its original significance and become reduced to a museum object, similarly to a dead person who can be found in history books. Interweaved with the objects are a few scenes of Africans performing traditional music and dances, as well as the death of a disemboweled gorilla.
, 14minutes Directed byAlain Resnais OriginFrance GenresDocumentary, Animation ActorsPierre Dux Rating69% Du bol en plastique jusqu'au pétrole, toute la chaîne industrielle conduisant à la fabrication des objets en plastique est parcourue en remontant à la source.
, 30minutes Directed byAlain Resnais OriginFrance GenresDocumentary ActorsGérard Philipe, François Chaumette Rating65% Revisitant en toute rigueur la confrontation archétype du cinéma social des années 1910, celle qui rassemble « viveur », « prolétaire », « l'officier », et « l'ingénue », le réalisateur, jouant de son propre rôle et de celui des acteurs relativement à leur incarnation, adopte dans l'abstrait face à son sujet le point de vue de l'enquêteur, celui de l'archéologue et du médecin légiste.
, 13minutes Directed byAlain Resnais, Robert Hessens OriginFrance GenresWar, Documentary ThemesPeinture ActorsMaria Casarès Rating68% After a brief voiceover by Jacques Pruvost highlighting the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, María Casares recites a poem by Paul Eluard on the subject of that atrocity illustrated with numerous paintings, drawings and sculptures of Pablo Picasso, latterly the painting Guernica (1937). The oppressive musical arrangements were composed by Guy Bernard.
, 18minutes Directed byAlain Resnais, André Heinrich OriginFrance GenresDocumentary ActorsYves Péneau, Jean-Pierre Grenier Rating65% Il s'agit d'un documentaire sur les maladies professionnelles tourné en 1957 à l'usine Francolor de Oissel (76) sous forme d'une enquête scientifique pour découvrir l'origine d'un mal mystérieux dont est atteint un ouvrier d'un atelier de l'usine.
, 21minutes Directed byAlain Resnais OriginFrance GenresDocumentary ActorsAgnès Varda, Jacques Dumesnil, Lucia Bosè Rating76% An essay on the potential and the limits of dutifully archived human knowledge, masquerading as a documentary on the organisation of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.