Richard Copans Movies

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.

“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are,...

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

I saw this happen : Raye left home. Why ? To see what was waiting for her out there. Europe ! It didn't matter where she went, the Mediterranean...

Gare du Nord in Paris is a transit station for all those coming from the suburbs, the provinces or abroad. Accompanied by Simon Mérabet, the...

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of...

Nowadays, supermarkets are being built where cinemas and churches used to be. Logical evolution as consumerism is the religion of the 20th century:...

A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend.

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

“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...

Director Richard Copans sets out to find his origins. In search of family ties, he meets a laborer, a Jewish poet's son, a violinist, a genealogist,...

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,...

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

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...

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.