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A spirit — the voice of Nancy Huston — awakens in the limbo of the world’s interconnected memory. From data centers to Internet pioneers, In Limbo asks what we are building: “a new cathedral… or the greatest cemetery in our history”. Produced by Providences with ARTE France and the National Film Board of Canada, the film also exists as an interactive version, launched by Arte and the NFB and presented at IDFA DocLab 2014.

Over photographs of the town of Libourne, Anne Brochet shares fleeting impressions, childhood memories and intimate reflections on her life — in the continuation of her book Un tour en ville (Seuil, 2009). The details of their collaborations are on the dedicated page With Anne Brochet.

What does one do with an animal’s name? Anne Brochet goes to meet Monsieur Pigeon, Madame Lerat, Isabelle Veaux — a whimsical comedy about names, lineage and inheritance, produced by Quark Productions and broadcast on Arte on June 27, 2013. Presented out of competition at the 2014 Festival International du Film d’Environnement.

The thousand days of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government (1970–1973), told by those who lived through them. Produced by ISKRA, the company founded around Chris Marker, the film was released in French theaters on October 2, 2013.

Tehran, in the aftermath of the 2009 post-election protests: a family hides the death of its youngest member from the grandmother. Shot on 35 mm at the London Film School, where Pierre-Alain Giraud shot the film and co-edited it. BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film (2012).