Where Do You Stand?

12 movies

"Where Do You Stand?" is a collection initiated by the Centre Pompidou, who commissions each guest filmmaker to make a free-form film in which he or she responds to this question, which is at once retrospective, introspective, and future-oriented, with its desires, projects. Arte France Cinéma is associated with the production of several films in this collection.

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Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello?

2014

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An autobiographical essay film structured as a letter to the director’s young daughter, "Où en êtes-vous, Bertrand Bonello?" weaves clips from Bonello’s films, excerpts from his scripts, pop songs, and snippets of original footage into a lyrical, reflexive cinematic self-portrait. "Où en êtes-vous?" is a collection initiated by Centre Pompidou, who asked directors to make retrospective and introspective films.

Where Are You, Bertrand Bonello?

2014

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Where are you, Tariq Teguia?

2015

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Where are you, Tariq Teguia? is part of the series of short films commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, which asks invited filmmakers to create a free-form film to answer this question about the future, its desires, its projects! Where are you now, Tariq Teguia? is less a self-portrait - from Thessaloniki to Algiers, Lisbon or Beirut - than an attempt to escape it.

Where are you, Tariq Teguia?

2015

Où en êtes-vous, Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi?

2015

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In this short film, screened and commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi revisit regions at war or in crisis through archive images of the 20th century.

Où en êtes-vous, Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi?

2015

Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?

2016

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An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub.

Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?

2016

Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues?

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2016

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João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.

Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues?

2016

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Where Do You Stand Today, Christian Petzold?

2017

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"Où en êtes-vous ?" (Where do you stand today?) is a project initiated by the Centre Pompidou, which commissions its guest filmmakers to make a free-form film in response to a question simultaneously retrospective, introspective and focused on their future ideas and projects. Here Christian Petzold is joined by Christoph Hochhäusler as they analyze a sequence from Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956) through a series of photograms. With this tribute to Harun Farocki, who died in 2014, Christian Petzold endeavors to revive and perpetuate the spirit, taste and methods of his former teacher and friend.

Where Do You Stand Today, Christian Petzold?

2017

The Moon

2018

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In the form of a fiction, Naomi Kawase delivers a self-portrait which is also a re-crossing of her earlier films. The old city of Nara, the first capital of Japan where Naomi Kawase is from and where she still lives, opens up a reverie where past, present and future meet. In its winding streets mingle the "Haré" of days of celebration and ceremony and the "Ké" of everyday life.

The Moon

2018

Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?

2019

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In Rio de Janeiro, people from the Mangueira neighbourhood follow the television broadcast on a big screen as the juries vote on each samba school. In 2019, Mangueira took to the Sambadrome a strong, bold samba of resistance to what’s taking place in Brazil right now. The film witnesses the tension while waiting for the final score, and the great joy of people from every generation when Mangueira wins and becomes champion of the 2019 Carnival.

Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?

2019

Another Day at the Office

5.0

2019

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A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist.

Another Day at the Office

2019

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Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)

2020

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Video #2 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina. Bertrand Bonello reworks the last minutes of his 2016 film Nocturama, which documents the logistical operations and the organization of terrorist attacks in Paris by a group of teenagers. Starting with "Où en êtes-vous?", a video commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in 2014 and conceived as a letter to his then 11-year-old daughter, the director makes a new work altering the final sequence of Nocturama and completely modifying the textual component and the soundtrack in this video essay as a second letter written for his now 17-year-old daughter.

Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)

2020

Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?

2022

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"For reasons of health, Lee Kang-sheng and I moved to the mountains. We don't have any neighbors. Our house is part of a row of dilapidated houses. I love these abandoned houses. I often walk around in them casually. I think they are beautiful. I said to Lee Kang-sheng: we don't have to go elsewhere to make films anymore. I'll make all my remaining films right here. I got some old chairs and some of my paintings and arranged them in these abandoned houses. And thus, this film was made." Tsai Ming-liang

Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?

2022

Where Are You, Jafar Panahi?

2026

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Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian director Majid Barzegar take a 20-minute drive to Kiarostami’s grave, during which time “the two friends speak appropriately of cinema, but also censorship and festivals, police power and ideology.”

Where Are You, Jafar Panahi?

2026