a.p.r.e.s editions

a.p.r.e.s editions publish art works and documentary films on DVDs and books-DVDs.
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De l\'autre côté du Grand Verre de Marcel Duchamp (box set)
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
This special boxed set, numbered 1 to 50, contains Franck Scurti's DVD Ulf Linde – Marcel Duchamp: Certifié pour copie conforme, Pascal Goblot's DVD Richard Hamilton dans le reflet de Marcel Duchamp and Pascal Goblot's book To be Broken / À refaire le Grand Verre, plus a silkscreen print on transparent film.
Pascal Goblot - To Be Broken - À refaire le Grand Verre
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Over a period of more than ten years, Pascal Goblot undertook a performance based on Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, the first stage of which involved making as exact a reproduction of The Large Glass as possible. This book is the pictorial account of that reconstitution.
Anna-Eva Bergman - L\'alchimie de la lumière (DVD)
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Simone Hoffmann's films invites us to rediscover one of the world's most important contemporary artists in the context of her retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2023.
Quand l\'art sème en forêt (DVD)
2023
French edition (English subtitles)
The fruitful meeting of the rural world and contemporary art within the framework of the collective experiment led by an art center in the forest trails.
Pascal Goblot - Sapiens ou la naissance de l\'art (DVD)
2023
French edition (English subtitles)
An investigation into the origins of artistic creation, more than 40,000 years ago (a film by Pascal Goblot, with Daniel Buren and a group of specialists in prehistoric art, philosophers, anthropologists and archaeologists, narrated by Virginie Ledoyen).
 Kimsooja - La Lanterne du Bon Dieu (DVD)
2022
French edition, English subtitles
A film by Gilles Coudert and Damien Faure about the stained glass windows made by Kimsooja for the Metz Cathedral: a dialogue between contemporary art and cultural heritage and between Eastern and Western thought.
Émile Naoumoff - Rencontre avec Émile Naoumoff - Entretien avec Nathalie Guilbaud (DVD)
2022
French edition (English subtitles)
A filmed interview with the pianist, composer and teacher Émile Naoumoff, conducted by Nathalie Guilbaud, with a booklet gathering the testimonies of some of his former students.
Pierre Pinoncelli - Pierre Pinoncelli, l\'artiste à la phalange coupée (DVD)
2022
French edition
A documentary film made over 10 years by Virgile Novarina, portraying the iconoclastic artist Pierre Pinoncelli, known since the 1960s for his shocking happenings.
Elke Mittmann - L\'architecture n\'est pas une image - Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré Tours (DVD)
2022
French edition (English subtitles)
Seven films on the architecture of the Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré in Tours and on the exhibitions that have marked its recent history.
Jean-Luc Bouvret - Mémoires de pierre - Etats-Unis / Brésil / Chine (DVD)
2022
French edition
A collection of three films on rock art, in America, Brazil, and China, proposed by Jean-Luc Bouvret.
Xavier Gayan - Roland Gori - Une époque sans esprit (DVD)
2021
French edition
currently out of stock
An intimate portrait of the psychoanalyst Roland Gori, of his thought and his fights against the commodification of health, education and culture.
Jean Dupuy - J\'idée - Variations sur Jean Dupuy (book + DVD)
2021
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD original version, English / French subtitles
A portrait of Jean Dupuy through a film by Gilles Coudert and a collection of unpublished texts.
Gilles Coudert - Quand l\'art tisse la ville (DVD)
2020
original version, English / French subtitles
Gilles Coudert's film, narrated by Charles Berling, stages a dialogue between contemporary creation and heritage on the occasion of Traversées, a cultural event organized in Poitiers, with Korean artist Kimsooja as guest of honor.
Pascal Goblot - Life as it goes - A conversation with Henri Atlan
2020
French edition (English subtitles)
A journey through the life and way of thinking of the French intellectual, medical biologist, philosopher and writer.
Gilles Coudert - Quand l\'art s\'invite au domaine - Chaumont-sur-Loire (DVD)
2020
original version, English / French subtitles
This film by Gilles Coudert, narrated by Charles Berling, depicts the dialogue between contemporary art and heritage fostered by the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre d'Arts et de Nature, which encompasses the château and its contemporary sculpture park.
Pierre Soulages - Moments d\'origine (DVD)
2019
film in French version with English subtitles
A conversation between painter Pierre Soulages and prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet about parietal art and the origins of art.
En Court - Variations sur  la Première Image (book / DVD)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD original version, English / French subtitles
Boxset containing a book and ten artist's films (Mali Arun, Ismaïl Bahri, Hicham Berrada, Antoine Danis, Maïder Fortuné, Ana Maria Gomes, Daphné Hérétakis, Joachim Olender, Clément Postec, Dania Reymond) on DVD.
Gilles Coudert - L\'Esprit Le Corbusier (DVD)
2019
original version, English / French subtitles
Told by Charles Berling, the film by Gilles Coudert juxtaposes the director's experience as an adolescent growing up in the biggest project ever built by Le Corbusier in Europe, in Firminy, France with insights from several contemporary artists including architects, a choreographer, a filmmaker, a designer and a composer. Architectural historian Jean Louis Cohen provides comment as do several inhabitants and users of Le Corbusier's complex.
Franck Scurti - Ulf Linde – Marcel Duchamp - Certifié pour copie conforme (DVD)
2019
original version, English / French subtitles
A film by artist Franck Scurti on Marcel Duchamp's masterpiece replica by Ulf Linde.
Philippe Sollers - The Conversation (DVD)
2019
film in French version with English subtitles
Jean-Paul Fargier's film about the historical encounter between the filmmaker and the writer in 1984.
Jean-Michel Othoniel - Le Trésor de la cathédrale d\'Angoulême (DVD)
2019
film in French version with English subtitles
A DVD documenting a commissioned work for which Jean-Michel Othoniel redesigned spaces housing the sacred treasures of the Angoulême Cathedral.
Jean-Luc Parant - Un film de boules (DVD)
2018
French edition
A film on poet and visual artist Jean-Luc Parant.
Jean-Luc Bouvret - La Bataille du Côa - Une leçon portugaise (DVD)
2018
French edition
This film documents the struggle for the preservation of the prehistoric rock art sites in the Côa valley in Portugal in the early 1990s.
Prototype d\'une exposition - Variations sur Jardin-Théâtre Bestiarium (book / DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD in original version with English subtitles
Box set including a book and a film on DVD dedicated to the Theatergarden Bestiarium exhibition.
Virgile Novarina - Télescope intérieur - Une œuvre spatiale d\'Eduardo Kac (DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
In February 2016, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet produced aboard the ISS an artwork by Eduardo Kac, entitled Inner Telescope. This film documents the conception and the realization of the very first artistic performance in Space.
Natacha Nisic - Rather Die Than Die (DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
In 1918, art historian and cultural theorist Aby Warburg emerged from a severe episode of psychosis. At about the same time he gave a conference on the Hopi nation's ritualistic snake dance. Focusing on his bout with mental illness, the film melds the aftermath of the Great War with his hopes for eventually recovering.
Joachim Olender - The collection that didn\'t exist (2 DVD)
2017
film in French version with English subtitles
Documentary dedicated to Herman Daled (1930-2020), one of the major collectors of Conceptual art: on a journey from Brussels to New York, the Belgian collector looks back on his past and that of an aesthetic movement that marked the second half of the twentieth century. Grand Prize at the International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal in 2016.
Robert Milin - L\'art les gens l\'artiste (book / DVD)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD in original version with English subtitles
Since 1991, Robert Milin has created artworks with guests invited to participate because of a practice they adopted in their daily life—as gardeners, cyclists, inhabitants of a village… In 2015, he decided to meet again with these people to give them the floor about this experience. The booklet features an interview with Robert & Delphine Milin and a chronology of the artist's works.
Daniel Buren - Works & Process - Volume 2 (2 DVD)
2017
French edition (English subtitles)
Second DVD in the “Works & Process” series to be dedicated to Daniel Buren's work, this new collection of films offers various documentary approaches of this major artist's work in a 3-hour program.
Virgile Novarina - Au cœur du sommeil - Avec Michel Butor, Clément Rosset, Pierre Pachet, Jean-Luc Nancy (DVD)
2016
film in French version with English subtitles
A literary and philosophic exploration of the various states of sleep. Embark upon a dreamlike path to the heart of sleep through the reading of four texts by Michel Butor, Clément Rosset, Pierre Pachet and Jean-Luc Nancy, and a series of sleepers.
Xavier Gayan - Les poètes sont encore vivants (DVD)
2016
French edition
A series of interviews with contemporary poets to understand a practice which seems today more incongruous than ever.
Liaisons urbaines - Transforming Public Spaces in African Cities
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Liaisons urbaines [Urban Connections] chronicles the development and implementation of an eponymous programme for enhancing public spaces in African cities by operations that combine urban planning and development, design, art and heritage.
Xavier Veilhan - Architectones by Xavier Veilhan (DVD)
2016
film in French version with English / French subtitles
Echoing his exhibition in the Château de Versailles, Xavier Veilhan opens the doors of seven modernist houses, from California to Europe. Through his contemporary works he creates a dialogue with the singular architecture of these places (original soundtrack by Nicolas Godin / Air).
 Kimsooja - To Breathe (book / DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.
Trait pour trait - De Jean-Baptiste Chardin à Mélissa Pinon (DVD)
2016
French version with English / Spanish subtitles
Three films on the art of copying & the works of painter Jean-Baptiste Chardin.
Gilles Clément - Le jardin en mouvement (DVD)
2016
French edition (English subtitles)
Two films to better understand the atypical path and ideas of Gilles Clément, gardener, landscape architect, author, and theoretician of gardens as places of political utopia.
Daniel Buren - D\'une arche aux autres - Travail in situ, Casablanca
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
A documentation on the development and reception of Daniel Buren's monumental in situ work in the gardens of the Sacred Heart Church of Casablanca.
Yona Friedman - Blvd Garibaldi - Variations on Yona Friedman (book / DVD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD in original version with English / french subtitles
Box set including a book and a film on DVD.
Bernard Heidsieck - Poésie action - Variations sur Bernard Heidsieck (livre / DVD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
Box set including a book and a film on DVD.
Ange Leccia - Logical Song (DVD)
2014
French version with English subtitles
A film by Gilles Coudert that takes a close look at Ange Leccia's work, interweaving the exploration of Leccia's exhibition “Logical Song” (2013) at the MAC/VAL – Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum with perspectives from a series of interviews (with 3 films by the artist).
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