Christian Boltanski Movies

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death. Made of moments of life,...

A young woman threatened with expropriation decides to shut herself in her apartment with her two children, until death ensues. Boltanski, following...

A crowd, seen from the back, slowly disappears. Boltanski created this work for the exhibition "Faire son temps" (Life in the making) at Centre...

Boltanski created "Animitas" in the Atacama Desert, a location steeped in history. The title of the work comes from the name given by Chileans to the...

Sitting on the floor in a narrow room, a man coughing and spitting blood.

A man at the feet of a seated woman, who looks like a big doll, licking her whole body.

4 channel video installation, sound, continuous loop Dimensions variable

Initially created in the form of an installation in the Atacama Desert in Chile, Animitas pays homage to memorial altars. Filmed in a single static...

On his search to find an answer to the question of destiny, Boltanski travelled to the north of Patagonia, where whales gather at certain periods of...

Trimmed photographs taken from different sources such as postcards, newspapers, police registries, and family photo albums, creating a vast art...

Entre-temps (Between-times) combines photos of Boltanski at different ages. Originally projected in a loop on a plastic curtain for its first...

A camera surveys an abandoned apartment, while the voiceover describes it inhabited.

Christian Boltanski is one of the greatest contemporary French artists, known the world over. The narrator, who once knew Boltanski, attempts to...

This performance was recorded in the presence of an audience. In his act, Boltanski deals with various incidents from his childhood. All the sketches...

A woman crawls on the floor of an empty room.