Antonin Artaud Movies

A BLACK AND WHITE FILM. A FLASH OF SOME COLOR. IMAGE IS IMAGINATION.

While researching their subject’s life for their feature My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud, co-directors/writers Gerard Mordillat and...

An eight part ciné-novel (episodic film) set during the French Revolution, telling the story of the Dauphin's childhood in Versailles, his...

Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord....

Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become...

The filmed archival of the Bengali theatre “Vincent-er Mrityu” by the theatre group Arghya inspired by Antonin Artaud's "Van Gogh: the...

A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.

Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a...

This two part video showcases practical approaches to working with Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty.

A short silent documentary on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed film, "La Fin du Monde".

Play by Antonin Artaud adapted for the stage and directed by Billy White.

This is the story of two sisters: one of them is a semi-whore with her pimp, the other one tries to walk the line, in spite of her sisters’...

A seance in which Antonin Artaud can be seen as a swirling depiction of a theater of freedom in the rubble of the hateful counter between actor and...

This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras...

In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show,...

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully...

Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five...