Movies
- 2005
Trying to Describe Oneself
Trying to Describe Oneself7.42005HD
Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...
- 1969
L'homme qui lèche
L'homme qui lèche81969HD
A man at the feet of a seated woman, who looks like a big doll, licking her whole body.
- 2020
J'ai retrouvé Christian B.
J'ai retrouvé Christian B.02020HD
- 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
Le Filmeur62005HD
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...
- 1969
L'homme qui tousse
L'homme qui tousse81969HD
Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood.
- 2017
Misterios
Misterios02017HD
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...
- 2020
Subliminal
Subliminal02020HD
4 channel video installation, sound, continuous loop Dimensions variable
- 2009
Les vies possibles de Christian Boltanski
Les vies possibles de Christian Boltanski02009HD
- 2017
Animitas blanc
Animitas blanc02017HD
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...
- 2014
Animitas Chili
Animitas Chili02014HD
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
La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski01968HD
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.
À la recherche de Christian B.01991HD
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
Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse01974HD
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
Derrière la porte01970HD
A woman crawls on the floor of an empty room.