Movies: Philippe Cote

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground....

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Lanzarote, a volcanic island of the Canary Islands was shaped in the eighteenth century by a series of eruptions. It preserves its memory through semi-desert mineral landscapes. In 2015, I traveled this territory in search of the cataclysm. In this d...

"At the beginning, they were those words that you wrote to me in order to generate images. I would make them from far away, alone in Seville in Andalousia. Then, after a first silent version, first editing...The film would encounter its final from as...

Nocturnal dreamlike wandering, filmed in several cities of Southern Europe: Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. Starting from a visual motif, the film gradually develops a more metaphorical tone. The title is a tribute to the film by Clemens Klopfens...

Each year, the Tamil community from South India and Sri Lanka met to celebrate the God Ganesh. The film is a description of gestures, dancing bodies, attendance recorded during this festival, crossing reminiscences of my stays in India....

Ordinary scenes: a market in South Laos ... Agencements of raw snapshots...

In this film, shots from two voyages unfold in parallel. First, 8mm images made at the beginning of the seventies by an unknown traveler: this 20-minute film was found at a flea market. A handwritten text described an itinerary, while the boxes indic...

'The angle of the world allows us to see the real as an outer and inner presence at the same time, an opaque otherness, yet capable of becoming an intimate space. These incommensurable lengths and distances of an interior that opens up: The mysteriou...

Resulting from performance projections of films painted directly on film. The film literally confronts pure abstraction and the unrolling of the film loaded with materials....

The human face, from original black to full light. Haptic cinema, the camera prolongs the body looking for these moments of confusion where other opportunities emerge. Shot in Super 8, the film has been upgraded in a self made fashion by re-filming ...

... I head to Thailand and then to northern Lao (Luang Prabang then hopefully further north), then certainly to Cambodia. At the source of this journey, there is a longing for a renewal of my cinema, for the search of new lights, of new areas, of new...

At the origin of these departures, is the research of lights, spaces, instants to renew my cinema, to be closer to the poetic documentary: being there and watching, recording length, not trying to force things to come......

Liquefied pictures morph into substances of airborne [volatile] lights. The eye does not have hold anymore on forms with a now unsteady outline. By successive births, these throw themselves little by little in different conditions of color until they...

Short film by Philippe Cote....

This film describes different forms and manifestations of water. The experience of the filmmaker's body immersed in water, sunken into the liquid element, represents the main theme of this poetic essay on the imagination of this element....

"This is a rarely seen cameraless film, made using the pinhole technique by applying light directly on the unexposed emulsion. Cote explores celluloid with color filters and different intensities of light as if expressing his most intimate and vital ...

Ghosts of matter, luminous traces, original worlds, made of internal sedimentations, surface, merge, vanish....

Between shadow and light / Fairytale around the abysses and its people / Back to the cinema....

The tale of an encounter......