Charles Baudelaire

A Carcass

From his book, Les Fleurs du Mal, an adaptation of Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem, Une Charogne.

Chibamar Bronx is Back in Town

Chibamar Bronx is back in a delirious, lysergic short film about very strange investigations.

Albatross

Often, to entertain themselves, the crew would find some albatrosses, seabirds known for grace and force, those indolent companions who follow behind the vessel gliding on its bitter, endless course.

Man and the Sea

In Baudelaire's poem, the sea becomes the mirror of man: wild, abysmal and mysterious.

A Carcass

An attempt to illustrate in animation Baudelaire's poem "A Carcass". A mixture of horror and irony, sacred and profane, life and death.

The Dancing Snake

A short film based on Charles Baudelaire's poem "Le serpent qui danse" ("The Dancing Snake"), from his book Les Fleurs du mal.

Messengers

Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; and they are addicted to the stimulant Tributol. Her further investigation discloses a dark secret about the haunting voices.

Les fleurs du mal

Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position among that nation's luminaries through the poems in one slim volume, entitled Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil). A perfectionist to the extreme, he struggled with every word of those few poems for many years before he consented to see them published. When he did, six of them were condemned by the state censors as obscene. It was surely a powerful blow to him to have such a significant part of his life's work so rudely suppressed. This courtroom drama follows him at the 1857 trial at which he defended his works. The filmmaker has chosen to symbolically re-enact certain poems about the love of a woman as they are being read for the court. It is easy to imagine that, as was certainly the case for the trial of Oscar Wilde in England, this courtroom trial was a form of punishment for his publicly dissolute lifestyle.

The So-Called Caryatids

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.

Don Juan és a Kővendég

Don Juan Tenorio finds himself at the gate of Hell, where he is confronted with the consequences of his 1003 seductions.

De mes amours décomposées

Fiction based on texts by Baudelaire, Sade, Lovecraft and Lautréamont.

Les salons de Baudelaire

Long panoramic shots and tracking shots in the Louvre Museum, the Hôtel de Lauzun or the Petit Palais allow us to discover the works of Delacroix, Horace Vernet, David, Ingres, Courbet, Manet, etc. An actor reads excerpts from Baudelaire's Salons where he expresses admiration or detestation. (source: Canopé)

Ocean Terminal

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who work with them are the subject of this film as they reflect in their personal lives some of the drama and romance of its situation. Among them are a tug skipper and his crew, a stewardess on a Cape ship, an assistant wharfinger in charge of handling baggage and freight, a taxi driver, and a pilot taking a great liner down Southampton water at night.

Invitation to a Journey

A woman enters a nightclub and slowly begins to open herself up.