The Return of Tragedy

The Return of Tragedy 2020

4.70

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.

2020

Alexx196 & the Pink Sand Beach

Alexx196 & the Pink Sand Beach 2023

5.00

Alex and Sacha are shaken up by the closure of the online video game on which they met. As Alex and his mother go on holiday to the south of France where Sacha lives, the two teenagers will attempt to meet up and finish the game together.

2023

I Saw the Face of the Devil

I Saw the Face of the Devil 2023

5.80

In a small town in northern Poland, 18-year-old Majka is convinced that she is possessed. She decides to rely on the skills of a local priest to expel the demon, which doesn’t stop her from jokingly referencing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist with her best friend.

2023

Nothing Will Be the Same Again

Nothing Will Be the Same Again 2022

1

Fragmented memories of a voyeur in 3 chapters: "I grew up" but I’m still falling. "The stalker" who loses his footing. "Memory" and regression.

2022

L'émission a déjà commencé

L'émission a déjà commencé 2023

1

Histoires courtes, the France 2 program, gives carte blanche to Bertrand Mandico who brings together three of his short films here: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in Skull Valley, Nous les barbares and The Last Cartoon.

2023

Exalted Mars

Exalted Mars 2022

4.30

A man is dreaming of a city. Unless the city is dreaming of him.

2022

Dragon Dilatation

Dragon Dilatation 2024

1

Dragon Dilatation is the union of two filmic essays, Petrouchka and La Déviante Comédie. The first part is a rereading of Stravinsky’s ballet, while the second segment is made up of traces of an unpublished performance rehearsed at the Théâtre des Amandiers.

2024

Anapidae (Call Me)

Anapidae (Call Me) 2024

1

At Naarièges cemetery, Mino guards the gates, takes care of the dead, and also the mourners. Next to him: a ghost, a widow and a huge spider. They are busy, panicking, blossoming, lovesick.

2024

The Last Cartoon

The Last Cartoon 2022

7.20

The end of the world of humanity as seen by Mandico. A time, as much future as current, where “cinema will be will be all other and nothing else”. Where, “it will be the last appointment of the flesh”, where “the energy will be cannibal and the sun will reflect to say nothing”. Pessimistic or optimistic is this cinematic pamphlet on art? In this destroy, and barbaric, jubilant and cinematic transgressive performance, it's up to you to think. Because thus spoke Bertrand Mandico...

2022

Dead Flash

Dead Flash 2021

1.00

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and her photographer. Together, they will play martyr and demiurge. They will attempt to achieve grace in a world of moving surfaces.

2021

New Gods

New Gods 2020

1

User LonerWolf58 is part of the incel community. They consider themselves as involuntary celibate. His videos have been reported for violent and terrorist content. I have to make him disappear from the net.

2020

Insieme Insieme

Insieme Insieme 2022

1

An unusual bandit trio spends autumn in a village by Lake Maggiore. In their holiday apartment they create a parallel world, which little reflects their surroundings. As the pressures of the outside world begin to weigh in on them, they kidnap a tourist in order to give their lives a purpose.

2022