Christian Boltanski Movies
- 2005
Trying to Describe Oneself
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Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...
- 2019
Le Passage
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A crowd, seen from the back, slowly disappears. Boltanski created this work for the exhibition "Faire son temps" (Life in the making) at Centre...
- 2005
Le Filmeur
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From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death. Made of moments of life,...
- 1971
Essai de reconstitution des 46 jours qui précédèrent la mort de Françoise Guiniou
Essai de reconstitution des 46 jours qui précédèrent la mort de Françoise Guiniou01971HD
A young woman threatened with expropriation decides to shut herself in her apartment with her two children, until death ensues. Boltanski, following...
- 2020
Subliminal
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4 channel video installation, sound, continuous loop Dimensions variable
- 1969
L'homme qui lèche
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A man at the feet of a seated woman, who looks like a big doll, licking her whole body.
- 1969
L'homme qui tousse
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Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood.
- 2009
Les vies possibles de Christian Boltanski
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- 2020
J'ai retrouvé Christian B.
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- 2017
Animitas blanc
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Boltanski created "Animitas" in the Atacama Desert, a location steeped in history. The title of the work comes from the name given by Chileans to the...
- 2017
Misterios
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On his search to find an answer to the question of destiny, Boltanski travelled to the north of Patagonia, where whales gather at certain periods of...
- 2014
Animitas Chili
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Initially created in the form of an installation in the Atacama Desert in Chile, Animitas pays homage to memorial altars. Filmed in a single static...
- 1968
La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski
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Trimmed photographs taken from different sources such as postcards, newspapers, police registries, and family photo albums, creating a vast art...
- 2003
Entre-temps
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Entre-temps (Between-times) combines photos of Boltanski at different ages. Originally projected in a loop on a plastic curtain for its first...
- 1974
L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard
L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard01974HD
A camera surveys an abandoned apartment, while the voiceover describes it inhabited.
- 1969
Tout ce dont je me souviens
Tout ce dont je me souviens01969HD
- 1969
Comment pouvons-nous le supporter?
Comment pouvons-nous le supporter?01969HD
- 1991
À la recherche de Christian B.
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Christian Boltanski is one of the greatest contemporary French artists, known the world over. The narrator, who once knew Boltanski, attempts to...
- 1974
Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse
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This performance was recorded in the presence of an audience. In his act, Boltanski deals with various incidents from his childhood. All the sketches...
- 1970
Derrière la porte
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A woman crawls on the floor of an empty room.