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This ultimate interview is the opportunity to finally understand Bruno Latour, "one of the most internationally famous, but also misunderstood French sociologist and philosopher" according to the New York Times. 

Bruno Latour had never given long interviews. At the end of October 2021, he asked Nicolas Truong, a senior reporter for Le Monde and a specialist in intellectual life, to revisit his fifty years of research. Spread out over four mornings, these interviews were intended to complete in another form, audiovisual this time, the whole of his singular and striking work. With great finesse and not without humor, Bruno Latour takes up and elaborates on the most important elements of his thought on camera.
 
“The most famous and misunderstood of French philosophers” – according to the New York Times – has been one of the most influential thinkers in the world since the 1990s. Bruno Latour has substantially influenced our time through a dozen fundamental works, translated into more than twenty languages, distinguished by the most prestigious prizes.

A unique film on Isaac Asimov, the godfather of science fiction, featuring his deepfake giving its vision of our future: robots, overpopulation, technology invading our houses...

The film presents the theories of a man who, back then, saw what science is bringing to us today.
With over 500 publications to his name, from the 50’s to the 80’s, he had anticipated computers and electronic gadgets invading the household, autonomous vehicles and humans' withdrawal from nature. Science fiction and anticipation stories have never been as popular as they are today. It inspires literature, drama series, films, even politics and the military. As the world we live in faces an unprecedented technological acceleration, we are more concerned than ever about our future.
 

Étoile de LaScam, 2023
Brooklyn SciFI Film Festival 2022 - Best documentary 
Sibersalz Science & Media Festival 2023 - Best Science Documentary

Consecrated “king of horror” of modern literature, he distinguished himself in other genres such as fantasy, science fiction or detective stories. Several of his works have been adapted for cinema such as Shining by Stanley Kubrick, Dead Zone by David Cronenberg or Misery by Rob Reiner. 

What is Stephen King afraid of? "Well of everything !" says the prolix American novelist. Born in 1947 in Maine, where he still lives, he has established himself since the mid-1970s as the king of fantasy and horror, selling more than 350 million copies of his bestsellers around the world in half a century. Revitalizing the genre by playing on child terrors, his stories, rooted in today's rural America, have inspired a host of accomplished filmmakers, from Brian De Palma (Carrie) to Stanley Kubrick ( The Shining) to John Carpenter (Christine), David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone), George A. Romero (The Dark Half), or Rob Reiner (Misery).
 
Influenced in his youth by the works of Richard Matheson and the classics of fantasy (those of H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker), marked as much by the arrest of a serial killer in the 1950s as by the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, this cantor of popular literature sheds light on the genesis of some of his greatest bookstore bestsellers and their adaptation, for television or cinema, through interviews gathered by Julien Dupuy in an enlightening documentary portrait. Between two film extracts, Stephen King confides in it his childhood memories - the figure of the father, who abandoned him and his mother when he was 2 years old -, his impecunious youth in a small town in Maine, his work methods, but also his struggle against his inner demons (alcohol addiction in especially), his defiance of machines, whose revolt he staged in Maximum Overdrive, his only film as a director, or his philanthropic support for libraries to enable the greatest number of people to have access to books.
 
Long despised by literary critics, it has since won several prestigious awards such as the National Book Award.

A portrait of Ernest Hemingway in love makes us delve into the intimacy of a man infinitely more complex than the image he liked to give. We will discover the author's relationship with each of his 4 wives, which will enable us to re-read his work with a different perspective.

Each of them corresponds to a time and a place during the author's life, allowing us to move from the bohemian Paris of the 1920s to the Florida of the 1930s, then back to Europe during World War II before discovering the Cuba of the 1950s; our story ends in Idaho, America, where Ernest Hemingway chose to kill himself at the age of 61.

The imaginary worlds of fantasy irrigate literature, cinema, video and role-playing games. Illustrator John Howe, the concept artist of The Lord of the Rings series, takes us on a wonderful four-part journey to discover the artists who have crafted fantasy.

Over the past twenty years, our views on Fantasy have shifted tremendously. Long reduced to repetitive adventures in comic books or movies with kitschy settings and poor scenarios, Fantasy now faces higher expectations from readers and critics alike, who demand complex heroes, strong female characters, original universes, in tune with more modern issues.
From its distant origins in myths and legends to its emergence into popular culture in the second half of the 20th century, fantasy has gradually taken shape over a history spanning more than a century. From the romantic Germany of the Brothers Grimm to the Texas plains where Robert E. Howard gave birth to the character of Conan, from the socialist utopias of William Morris to the tortured and eccentric mind of HP Lovecraft, John Howe’s travels will be interspersed with animated sequences breathing life into the stories that laid the foundations of the genre. To understand what makes these works so relevant and prevalent today, John Howe will be assisted by renowned experts such as S. T. Joshi, author of a 1200-page biography of Lovecraft, and Patrice Louinet, editor and translator of Robert E. Howard.
 

Yasmina Khadra's story is anything but ordinary-it is an epic tale. This best-selling author, whose early novels are set during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, is not, as one would imagine, a woman.

His real name is Mohammed Moulessehoul, a former Algerian army officer who fought against the rise of Islamist extremism that plunged his country into a bloodbath. He spent his sleepless nights writing novels that were published under a pseudonym composed of his wife's first two names. Structured as a road movie between Algeria and France, this documentary takes us on a journey through the work of Yasmina Khadra, the author's complex personality and his life, which is inextricably tied to the history of Algeria since its independence.

The Brothers Grimm are probably the most famous collectors of stories. And these fairy tales have their roots in the German and French storytelling tradition. The collection first appeared in 1812 and met with a wide audience interested in enchanted. It is not yet fantasy - it lacks personal invention ...

Fantasy is everywhere: in cinema, in literature as well as in videos and role-playing games. But what are the origins of these stories? Who are their pioneers? And what does it say about our society when fantasy series like "Game of Thrones" or "Lord of the Rings" become so successful? Illustrator John Howe is one of the masters of the fantasy genre. The documentary series takes him on a journey back in time to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm to the novels of Robert E. Howard. In four episodes, John Howe meets famous people who explain to the viewer the more than hundred-year history of fantasy novels.

This time, illustrator John Howe goes to London to follow in the footsteps of William Morris, who is considered the first fantasy author. His novels had a decisive influence on the works of Tolkien and CS Lewis, the author of Narnia. In the 1860s, Morris began work on a more comprehensive poetic oeuvre...

In the 1860s, William Morris began a more complete poetic work, published in four volumes as The Earthly Paradise, which revisited classical and Northern Irish mythological stories.

A proponent of the notion of cosmic horror, according to which human beings are insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was almost unknown during his lifetime, but he has since become a cult author. American illustrator Mike Mignola (creator of the character Hellboy) talks about his discovery of Lovecraft and the challenge his creatures represent for an illustrator.

H. P. Lovecraft truly became a cult author with his fantasy novel The Call of Cthulhu (1926), in which an infamous creature is said to lurk at the bottom of the ocean while his followers secretly prepare his return to earth.

Archetypal fantasy hero, Conan the Barbarian tries to survive in a world where violence and sex are the law. John Howe continues his American journey in Cross Plain, Texas, the village where his creator, Robert E. Howard, lived. There he discovers a muscular hero far more complex than he thought.

The illustrator also meets the artist Barry Windsor-Smith. Who, claiming to be Howard, was the first to transpose Conan into comics for Marvel.

Sartre and Camus, the two most world-famous, 20th century, French writers, form a legendary and inseparable couple. The two extraordinary thinkers propelled the figure of the politically engaged writer into the limelight. 

Between 1943 and 1951, Sartre and Camus were friends. In 1952, they publically tore each other apart, with violence, panache and in bad faith, largely on account of the cold war. There were many reasons for their rupture, including literary, philosophical, political and personal ones, as well as divergent deep beliefs, jealousy and resentment. There constitute all the ingredients of an intellectual and fictional drama. The relationship the two iconoclastic thinkers shared was simple yet tormented, and mundane yet out-of-the-ordinary.
 
Their conflict marked generations of intellectuals, who had to choose whether they sided with Sartre or Camus. This film features a multitude of personal accounts, and a previously unaired recording of Sartre talking about Camus. It is centred round many previously unseen archive images, and contains original graphics.

Albert Camus is today's most widely read 20th century French writer. For the celebration in 2013 of the centenary of his birth, this documentary goes in search of his impassioned readers.

Camus' admirers form a vast "community" that extends far beyond borders. A cheerful and improbable community made up of people, unknowingly, from different walks of life, including singers (The Cure, Patti Smith...), a Breton priest, an American abolitionist, a Chicago attorney, a Japanese calligrapher and a dancer from Yaoundé.