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Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts (2011)

Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts
Actors Warren Ellis, Ryan Keely, Garth Ennis, Brea Grant, Jiz Lee, Helen Mirren

The film tracks chronologically through Ellis's life, as he moves from an unruly teenager to a successful writer and internet icon. The film features numerous interludes in which Ellis reads from his works. Thematically, the film is concerned with the construction of futures, and the way that science fiction can influence reality.
The Creators
The Creators (2012)
, 1h23
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films

The story begins in the mind of Cashril Plus, a twelve-year-old animator and son of graffiti artist Faith47. Through Cashril's eyes, we see his mother paint the streets and forgotten townships haloing Cape Town. Weaving through the lives of Faith47, Warongx (afro-blues), Emile Jansen (hip hop), Sweat.X (glam rap), Blaq Pearl (spoken word) and Mthetho (opera), the film culminates in an intertwined story. Born into separate areas of a formerly-segregated South Africa, the artists recraft history—and the impacts of apartheid—in their own artistic languages. The lens reveals the impulse behind the artists’ social consciousness, the individuals’ eccentricities, and each creator’s unique form of expression. Diving into the current of subversive art which fuels South Africa’s many clashing and merging cultures, The Creators brings into focus the invisible connections among strangers' disparate lives—and the creative expression used to traverse the divide. The result is an intimate, refreshing, and deeply revealing portrait of those remolding the legacy of apartheid.
Photographic Memory
Photographic Memory (2011)
, 1h24
Directed by Ross McElwee
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Ross McElwee

The filmmaker finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, who is no longer the delightful child the father loved, but an argumentative young adult who inhabits virtual worlds available through the internet. To the father, the son seems to be addicted to and permanently distracted by those worlds. The filmmaker undertakes a journey to St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany where he worked for a spring as a wedding photographer’s assistant at age 24 –slightly older than his son is now. He has not been back to St. Quay since that visit, and hopes to gain some perspective on what his own life was like when he was his son’s age. He also hopes to track down his former employer, a fascinating Frenchman named Maurice, and Maud, a woman with whom he was romantically involved during that spring 38 years ago. Photographic Memory is a meditation on the passing of time, the praxis of photography and film, digital versus analog, and the fractured love of a father for his son.
Contacts
Contacts (1990)
, 13minutes
Directed by Raymond Depardon
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Photographie

À travers les planches contacts de son reportage dans l'asile psychiatrique de San Clemente., le réalisateur Raymond Depardon s'interroge sur son travail de photographe. Le regard voyeur de celui qui capte la douleur. Le dialogue, le contact, qui s'instaure avec ceux qui sont photographiés. "J'ai aimé photographier les murs, les gens contre les murs. [...] cette impression de tourner en rond, sans sortie de secours, il n'y a plus de porte. Le photographe est là, il ressemble à un nouvel arrivé, un nouveau pensionnaire, on le voit tous les jours, ce n'est pas un médecin, ni un infirmier. Il n'est pas du métier. Il tourne lui aussi. Il cherche quelque chose, il a l'air sympathique, pas encore très à l'aise, il ne parle pas.
Métamoebius
Métamoebius (2010)
, 1h10
Directed by Damian Pettigrew
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes La bande dessinée, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentaire sur la bande dessinée
Actors Jean Giraud, Jean Pierre Dionnet

Plusieurs facettes inconnues du célèbre auteur de Blueberry sont exposées, notamment l'étonnant connaisseur des textes d'Italo Calvino et de la poésie d’Arseni Tarkovski, parmi d'autres. Sortant du cadre de l'interview classique par le biais de sa passion d'acteur manqué, Giraud-Mœbius se met à nu devant la caméra imaginaire du cinéaste Govam Taboun, personnage inventé par Mœbius pour son Désert B. À partir de dessins animés, d'archives et d'œuvres rares, les screen tests coécrits et joués par l'artiste révèlent d'une façon inédite la psyché de l'un des plus influents dessinateurs du XX siècle.
Rock Prophecies
Rock Prophecies (2009)

Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Jason Bonham

The film tells the story of Robert M. Knight, a rock photographer born and raised in Honolulu, who holds the distinction of being one of the first photographers to capture Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, and the last to photograph Stevie Ray Vaughan. Over the course of the film, Robert revisits the friends and idols of his past, such as Jeff Beck, Slash, Carlos Santana, and Steve Vai, while helping to kick-start the careers of the Australian band Sick Puppies. Fiercely protective of his ever-expanding photo archive, the photographer struggles with his mother's costly around-the-clock care, and debates whether to sell the 200,000+ photos that mean so much to him.