La Chambre

The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely unlocking the door. This encounter between a symbol of typical Swiss mentality with a penchant for order and the tenants who have been housed here by the city’s social services department is not something to be taken for granted. Although the laundry room is normally located in the cellar, the tenants in this building share a tiny laundry room off the entrance hall because the cellar is reserved for prostitution. To maintain order and cleanliness, the landlord hires Claudina, a new “laundry woman”.

Bleached S8 film shot by myself and recovered with new's paper prints and pulp.

The incessant verbal duel and the bothering caused by an old patient in a hospital with his roommate, a good fellow believing himself suffering from a serious illness.

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

In the bedroom

They can't explain what happened. All they can say: in a timeless space filled with white light, their deeply disturbing encounters with the paranormal irrevocably changed how they perceive our reality.

France, 1910. While her mother seems to be suffering from an illness she wishes to hide, the young Cassandra feels a growing presence in the family home ... But what shadow is hidden in the silence of the dark room?

This plodding piece of cinematic ambiguity finds a married couple engaged in boring conversation in a window as scenery changes behind them. When they manage to talk about love, some of the tedium is lifted in the wake of their amorous verbiage. This black and white effort from Jean Pierre Lefebvre depends on symbolic impressionism rather than plot.

After a painful break-up, Lisa returns to her family farm to help her father, who is nearing retirement. One night, she meets Élise, an actress living in a large house next door. The two develop a friendship, and Lisa helps Élise learn lines for a play based on the story of Joan of Arc. But Lisa, both fascinated and troubled by the actress, becomes increasingly haunted by visions.

Everyday, the main character, who is confined in a dark room, sees sunlight coming through the window: he flees from the closed place to an infinite one.

A man checks into room 32 at a hotel. He takes a writing desk from against the wall, and leaves. A woman comes to the hotel and takes room 31, right next to him.

Sabri left to combat in Syria, leaving his family alone in the face of such sudden and unbearable absence. Saliha, his mother, decided not to keep silent. Her story intertwines that of other parents who unite and fight against the youth indoctrination by the jihadist networks.

Damian is 20 years old. We meet him a few months before he leaves the juvenile prison in Celje (in Slovenia), where he has been detained since he was sixteen. From his cell he dreams of the room at home, the room that once used to be his father’s and which awaits him when he returns to his grandparents’ house. When he finally arrives in this house, his desire to start a new life and to renew the relationship with his family and the society is put to trial.

Louise enjoys a private moment to open her treasure box in the room she shares with her little sister. She does not know that she has been hiding under her bed to spy on her. The film deals with sensuality through a both charming and erotic experience of an involuntary interaction between two sisters.

A young boy’s understanding of his parents’ decision to sell their old family house will confront him with his family’s roots, and blur the border between past and present.