Documentary series – 2016 – 3 x 52 mn – 16/9

A being with a cube-shaped skull, like an astronaut’s helmet sprouting long antennas linked together with filaments, and without feet, nor legs. This picture does not come from some visionary artist’s canvas but it is drawn in the Utah desert.
Here, as in many other incredible natural spots, awesome drawings have been carved on the rocks thousands of years ago. And for the first time on television, two big authorities on the subject are to take us on a journey around the world, to unravel the mystery around those signs.
American paleontologist, Paul Bahn, and Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Research Director at France’s CNRS, will retrace the history of these signs as well as search for their meaning, combining shrewd observations with humor. In the first three coming episodes of the series, they will deal with the beautiful signs found in Nine Mile Canyon (USA), the Pedra Furada in Brazil, and the fabulous cliff of Huashan, in China.

Thanks to cutting-edge CGI, the drawings will be exported and animated in order to illustrate clearly for the viewer the possible interpretations. Through hypothesis and experimentation, the viewer will feel closer to the mindset and world of our remote ancestors.

Des milliers de gravures préhistoriques à l’air libre, menacées par la construction d’un barrage hydraulique. Un terrible dilemme pour les autorités portugaises,tiraillées entre impératifs économiques et culturels.

Documentary – 2012 – 52 mn – 16/9

After the discovery of an enormous cloud of pollution over the Indian Ocean, for the first time a Franco-Italian team revealed surprising levels of soot particle concentration in an area as unspoilt as the hightest  Himalayan summits.

Clouds know no borders… But science is on their trail.

Feature-length documentary – 2011 – 90 mn – 16/9

En 2009, la ville de Châteaugiron doit célébrer son millénaire. Ce n’est peut-être plus un millénaire qu’il va s’agir de fêter, mais plusieurs, si la fouille archéologique engagée vient confirmer le résultat des sondages ! Le film se propose d’accompagner le travail des scientifiques sur les fouilles engagées, mais aussi d’articuler des points de   vue d’enfants, d’artistes contemporains ou des habitants curieux de la vie des hommes qui les ont précédés.

a film by Thierry Scharf

a series written by François-Xavier Vives, Jean-Luc Bouvret, Emmanuel Laborie

a film by Jean-Luc Bouvret

a film by Pascal Goblot

Thirty years after their first launch on the market, the little items enclosed inside Kinder chocolate eggs are exhibited in art galleries. Their growing popularity in artistic circles is widely acknowledged by experts in contemporary art. From simple popular objects, Kinder Surprise eggs are becoming works of art, and this transformation is at the core of recent problematics in the aesthetics’avant-garde. The movie accounts for this transformation, with all the seriousness we would expect on the topic.

Documentary – 2006 – 52 mn – 16/9

Chronique au quotidien du plus petit refuge du Massif du Mont-Blanc, celui de Leschaux dans les Alpes. Point de départ des courses et dernière étape avant l’héroïque ascension des parois rocheuses des Grandes Jorasses, le refuge est un point de rencontre des alpinistes où s’exprime la passion de la haute montagne.