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This three-hour-long French documentary chronicles the life and personality of famed French poet, actor and intellectual Antonin Artaud, who passed away in 1948 when he was only 50 years old.

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

A farmer's daughter marries a railway worker to insure that her family is well cared for. Her new husband proves to be a sluggardly alcoholic and eventually, she decides her own personal happiness comes before the welfare of her family.

The plot of the film is made of twelve individual interviews with twelve big bosses of large French firms, as well as a group interview with six of them, with some commentaries of the director.

Maurice Decques is Parisian, born of a mix between a communist father and an anarchist mother. He lives in the Ménilmontant neighborhood since he is a child, even after his marriage with a Hungarian cellist, more sensitive to real communism.

Kept prisoner by terrorists in an abandoned building in suburbs, a finance worker, Ash, manage to communicate with the outside world because of letters and videos. A film crew go to search him at the same time than police.

In the Périgord, at the beginning of the century, Adrien, illegitimate child, is adopted by his grandmother. When the First World War ended, he becomes a railway man, and takes part in the strikes of 1920.

Young country-boy Gaston leaves his parents' farm to look for work in paris. The people he encounters there, and the problems he meets in his job, lead him to realise how much young workers in insecure jobs are exploited; while life in the capital makes him more aware of his roots in the country.

Documentary about Marseille in the 20s, filtered through the director's childhood memories.

Three programs made on the basis of material gathered for the documentary "La Voix de son Maître" (His Master's Voice), where twelve CEOs of large French companies face the camera and talk about power, hierarchy, trade unions, strikes and self-management: "Confidences Sur L'Ouvrier" (Secrets About the Worker); "Un Pépin Dans La Boîte" (A Spanner in the Works) and "La Bataille a Commencé à Landerneau" (The Battle Started at Landerneau). The three parts were banned from French national television (Antenne 2) but released at Cinéma La Clef in Paris a few weeks later.

A new shorter and uncensored TV version of Patrons - Télévision (1979). The dates "1978 / 1991" are used in reference to the "missing years", the amount of time during which the film was not authorized to be shown on TV in France.

Covers the engulfing of the village of Naussac, in the Aveyron department in Southern France, wiped before the commissioning of a dam, which construction was state-approved on February 6, 1976, in order to regulate the River Allier's flow.

Investigates the place held by music in everyday life in order to trace the origin of musical emotion.

Rural women are of vital importance to agriculture, especially on the Larzac plateau in South Western France, where farmers and their families are resisting the extension of an existing military base which threatens all farming activities.