Christian Boltanski Movies

  • 2005
    Trying to Describe Oneself

    Trying to Describe Oneself

    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...

    Trying to Describe Oneself
  • 2019
    Le Passage

    Le Passage

    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...

    Le Passage
  • 2005
    Le Filmeur

    Le Filmeur

    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,...

    Le Filmeur
  • 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 Guiniou

    Essai de reconstitution des 46 jours qui précédèrent la mort de Françoise Guiniou

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    A young woman threatened with expropriation decides to shut herself in her apartment with her two children, until death ensues. Boltanski, following...

    Essai de reconstitution des 46 jours qui précédèrent la mort de Françoise Guiniou
  • 2020
    Subliminal

    Subliminal

    Subliminal

    02020HD

    4 channel video installation, sound, continuous loop Dimensions variable

    Subliminal
  • 1969
    L'homme qui lèche

    L'homme qui lèche

    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.

    L'homme qui lèche
  • 1969
    L'homme qui tousse

    L'homme qui tousse

    L'homme qui tousse

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    Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood.

    L'homme qui tousse
  • 2009
    Les vies possibles de Christian Boltanski

    Les vies possibles de Christian Boltanski

    Les vies possibles de Christian Boltanski

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    Les vies possibles de Christian Boltanski
  • 2020
    J'ai retrouvé Christian B.

    J'ai retrouvé Christian B.

    J'ai retrouvé Christian B.

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    J'ai retrouvé Christian B.
  • 2017
    Animitas blanc

    Animitas blanc

    Animitas blanc

    02017HD

    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...

    Animitas blanc
  • 2017
    Misterios

    Misterios

    Misterios

    02017HD

    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...

    Misterios
  • 2014
    Animitas Chili

    Animitas Chili

    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...

    Animitas Chili
  • 1968
    La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski

    La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski

    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...

    La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski
  • 2003
    Entre-temps

    Entre-temps

    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...

    Entre-temps
  • 1974
    L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard

    L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard

    L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard

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    A camera surveys an abandoned apartment, while the voiceover describes it inhabited.

    L'appartement de la rue de Vaugirard
  • 1969
    Tout ce dont je me souviens

    Tout ce dont je me souviens

    Tout ce dont je me souviens

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    Tout ce dont je me souviens
  • 1969
    Comment pouvons-nous le supporter?

    Comment pouvons-nous le supporter?

    Comment pouvons-nous le supporter?

    01969HD

    Comment pouvons-nous le supporter?
  • 1991
    À la recherche de Christian B.

    À la recherche de Christian B.

    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...

    À la recherche de Christian B.
  • 1974
    Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse

    Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse

    Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse

    01974HD

    This performance was recorded in the presence of an audience. In his act, Boltanski deals with various incidents from his childhood. All the sketches...

    Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse
  • 1970
    Derrière la porte

    Derrière la porte

    Derrière la porte

    01970HD

    A woman crawls on the floor of an empty room.

    Derrière la porte