Richard Copans Movies

On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003,...

Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka’s...

One hundred and twenty years of film history in a warehouse in Paris. In the reserves of the French Cinematheque, where thousands of cameras and...

An amateur choir in the 13th arrondissement in Paris. Once a week, 30 children, 20 teenagers and 50 adults meet to rehearse and sing together under...

Hervé Le Roux discovered a short film about a strike in a battery factory. Now he's looking for one of the workers seen in this film: a young...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the...

Film director Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

“I talk about my 20 years of work with the filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in 1999. It is an account of the gestures and practices of this...