Movies: Clément Cogitore

A filmic essay/poem blending fictional images and archival footage from the Pathé and Gaumont collections from the early XXth century. Based on two figures/characters and paced by their interior monologues, Chroniques explores the mythologies of exil...

Follow in real time the peregrinations of a small pack, prisoner and resigned, recount death like a children's tale, share the twilight between tranquility and terror. Film the fence as one would a still life....

For the making of "Assange Dancing", Cogitore used an amateur video shot and published online by the DJ of a club in Reykjavik in 2011. It shows the activist and Wikileaks founder dancing on a semi-deserted dancefloor....

Tucked away in their Moscow apartment, Ely and Nina Bielutine jealously guard one of the most significant and mysterious Renaissance art collections in Russia. Surrounded by their crow and cats, under the watchful eye of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelange...