Chloé Galibert-Laîné

Forensickness

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

A film about Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives (2018), a detective comedy appropriating for its own purposes the principle of its model: inquiring about the inquirer.

Watching the Pain of Others

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Penny Lane

In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.

Bottled Songs 1-4

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee

Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.

Reading Binging Benning

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee

How much can you see of a movie you can't see? A speculative video essay on the film READERS by James Benning.

L'oeil était dans la tombe et regardait Daney

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

Through a series of text, clips, and sounds popping up on a simulated computer screen, French researcher and filmmaker Chloé Galibert-Laîné investigates the noise that terrified Daney, as well as those that have scared her; the result proving its success by, spooking us in turn.

Bottled Songs: The Observer

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

A researcher finds a phone video showing hundreds of ISIS captives running through a desert. She is puzzled that the video is posted on YouTube by Les Observateurs, a French state-funded news channel as a work of “citizen journalism”. While the video has been removed from many other channels, the French news channel’s legitimacy allows the video to remain online and spread terror over several years. Further investigation uncovers multiple variants of the footage on countless other sites, leading her to despair.

The Burrow

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

Odile lives alone. Afraid that someone might enter her flat when she’s not at home, she enters a video surveillance online community, in the hope that users will keep an eye on her apartment and inform her in case of unexpected intrusion. And the intrusion happens: dark smudges appear on the walls. Furious, she decides to leave the community. While she tries to fight against infiltrations, she realizes that she is still on watch…

Dupieux / Haneke - an essay on metacinema

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

What do the numerous similarities between the films of Michael Haneke and Quentin Dupieux reveal about their respective filmmaking strategies?

Bottled Songs 1 & 2

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee

Two researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the media’s role in spreading this message. Exchanging video letters recorded from their computer desktops, the researchers share their thoughts and fears as they each dissect pieces of media produced by ISIS in 2014 that are still available online today.

The Identity Thief

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

This video is an introduction to Rogério Sganzerla's The Bandit of the Red Light. It was inspired by a chapter of an unpublished master thesis about Brazilian Marginal cinema that can be read here (in French).

Bottled Songs 3 & 4

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee

This video presents Chapters 3 and 4 from the series. « The Spokesman » (aka « A Guide to be driven ») investigates the online traces of John Cantlie, a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State's propaganda videos. « My Crush was a Superstar » tracks a French ISIS fighter, Abu Abdallah Guitone, through a trail of messages, videos and postings to uncover his existence in both social media and reality. This leads to an uncomfortable first-person exploration of the gender dynamics behind ISIS recruitment strategies.

Planning Unexpected Encounters: the Making of Route One USA by Robert Kramer

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

A poetic journey through the collages of paper maps made by Robert Kramer during the preparation of the shooting of Route One USA, to which are superimposed excerpts from his diary, and scenes from the finished film. How do you prepare a shoot when your desire is simply to leave, camera in hand, on the roads, and document unexpected encounters?

Re-enacting the Future

Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee

A video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee. Commissioned by Dana Linssen and Jan Pieter Ekker for Critics Choice V: Absence, 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Special thanks to Bero Beyer. Dedicated to the film I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS by Radu Jude.

Why Framing Matters in Movies

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

Produced as part of an end-of-the-year series of videos looking back at films released in 2015, this video essay asks: when does the act of framing an image become a political gesture?

Peeping Ruth

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

This video essay explores the gender dynamics behind the acts of looking and being-looked-at in Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947).

Bottled Songs: My Crush Was a Superstar

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

"This video was produced as part of an ongoing collaborative project on terrorist media. The project aims to explore the contents and contexts for production of terrorist media and to question how these images migrate from social media to news broadcasts, from phones to computers, from the Middle East to other regions of the globe. This specific video explores the online presence of the French-Moroccan jihadist known as Abu Abdallah Guitone who died in Syria in 2014."