Jean-Pierre Dionnet

Beyond Bizarre, the Life & Art of John Willie

An honorable Englishman destined to a military career, John Willie, born John Alexander Scott Coutts, John Willie (1902-1962) will become one of the heralds of fetishist and bondage art. A designer, a photographer and brilliant illustrator, he’s remembered as the guy with the whipped and tied up half naked distraught girls, between glamour and perversion.

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.

Just After Midnight

Suzanne is a young, blind teacher. Within a small community of the visually impaired, she assiduously follows a course in art history devoted to the erotology of Satan and to witches. Transformed, Suzanne tries to steal a man's eyes in order to get her sight back. The failure of her first attempt leads her to more easily approachable and impressionable prey, her personal reader, Pierre, who is madly in love with her.

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.