Philippe Ciompi Movies

  • 2019
    Look Then Below

    Look Then Below

    Look Then Below

    02019HD

    Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a...

    Look Then Below
  • 2023
    The Wonder Way

    The Wonder Way

    The Wonder Way

    02023HD

    From her grandmother’s garden to California via the Mojave Desert and the cosmos, Emmanuelle Antille takes us on a journey to...

    The Wonder Way
  • 2013
    Late at Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness

    Late at Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness

    Late at Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness

    02013HD

    ‘You have no choice about being here, you’ll have no choice about when you leave’ proclaims a woman in Xiaolu Guo’s latest...

    Late at Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness
  • 2004
    The Importance of Being Elegant

    The Importance of Being Elegant

    The Importance of Being Elegant

    02004HD

    Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant...

    The Importance of Being Elegant
  • 2021
    Red Ants Bite

    Red Ants Bite

    Red Ants Bite

    02021HD

    In Georgia, two stranded Nigerians, Obinna and Afame, navigate the sleeping city of Tbilisi after a long night out. However, as day breaks the true...

    Red Ants Bite
  • 2008
    We Went To Wonderland

    We Went To Wonderland

    We Went To Wonderland

    02008HD

    Two old Chinese communists visit run down England. The man who lost his voice scribbles his comments: "Water is so good in the West." "Flowers are...

    We Went To Wonderland
  • 2018
    Trees Down Here

    Trees Down Here

    Trees Down Here

    5.72018HD

    In this short film of Cowan Court, which was completed by 6a architects in late 2016, Rivers has turned his camera onto the interactions between...

    Trees Down Here
  • 2017
    Silica

    Silica

    Silica

    5.72017HD

    An unseen location scout explores an opal-mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semideserted region...

    Silica
  • 2016
    Kawasaki Keirin

    Kawasaki Keirin

    Kawasaki Keirin

    02016HD

    In the industrial city of Kawasaki, on the corner of the street where my grandparents used to live, bettors of keirin — a cycling race...

    Kawasaki Keirin
  • 2022
    Osmosis

    Osmosis

    Osmosis

    02022HD

    A sensory exploration of the forest and the tensions that inhabit it, Osmosis interweaves images of pure chlorophyll and the dense blackness of burnt...

    Osmosis
  • 2019
    The Jarariju Sisters

    The Jarariju Sisters

    The Jarariju Sisters

    7.52019HD

    Viviana and Yandris weave red and yellow yarn into bags. In the distance we hear the hammering of machines, the wail of sirens and the thunder of...

    The Jarariju Sisters
  • 2021
    Sol de Campinas

    Sol de Campinas

    Sol de Campinas

    02021HD

    Sol de Campinas traces the work of archaeologists who, for the past ten years, have been excavating a ring of mounds surrounding a central plaza...

    Sol de Campinas
  • 2009
    Once Upon a Time Proletarian

    Once Upon a Time Proletarian

    Once Upon a Time Proletarian

    02009HD

    Film shows the present state of China through twelve platforms, an old farmer, a middle aged waitress, a car washer, a weapons dealer, fish store...

    Once Upon a Time Proletarian
  • 2015
    Electrical Gaza

    Electrical Gaza

    Electrical Gaza

    02015HD

    In Electrical Gaza, Nashashibi combines her footage of Gaza, and the fixer, drivers and translator who accompanied her there, with animated scenes....

    Electrical Gaza
  • 2014
    Gospel of Anasyrma

    Gospel of Anasyrma

    Gospel of Anasyrma

    02014HD

    Gabriel, a young Georgian man, has a love relationship with a transgender woman Amaia, who lives in the Tbilisi suburbs. Embedded in the reality of...

    Gospel of Anasyrma
  • 2022
    The Porters

    The Porters

    The Porters

    02022HD

    Some kids in Brussels play a game based upon objects that were brought back from the Congo and which were used during the Hutereau expedition.

    The Porters
  • 2018
    Lantsky Papa's Stolen Ox

    Lantsky Papa's Stolen Ox

    Lantsky Papa's Stolen Ox

    02018HD

    1945. Four thieves, a stolen ox, a dragon lying under a sofa, a jealous brother and a Soviet inspector murdered in a mill: here are some of the...

    Lantsky Papa's Stolen Ox
  • 2016
    To Bow Down

    To Bow Down

    To Bow Down

    02016HD

    Chaima, a 25-year-old woman of Maghreb origin, lives with her parents in a popular neighbourhood on the outskirts of Geneva. It's her day off, she...

    To Bow Down
  • 2014
    Abandoned Goods

    Abandoned Goods

    Abandoned Goods

    02014HD

    Abandoned Goods is an essay film exploring the journey of one of Britain’s major collections of Asylum Art containing about 5,500 objects...

    Abandoned Goods
  • 2019
    Silent Storm

    Silent Storm

    Silent Storm

    02019HD

    From the coast of the Atlantic to that of the Mediterranean, the director meets women whose faces recount ruined hopes. Grief finds an element of...

    Silent Storm