Movies: Sophie Roger

Following the steps of an English botanist, in the landscapes of the Normandy coast, people and cameras look at flowers. This is an essay on attention and friendship, a cinematic herbarium....

A love journey along a side path. From her cabin to the ‘garden of little brambles’, the director engages in dialogue with the beings she encounters. Women, animals, flowers, trees, and books joyfully coexist in this quest....

Filmmaker Pierre Creton, one of the FIDmarseille festival's most loyal supporters, offers us 6 ads, a teaser imagined in the form of a micro-series, especially for FID. Drawing on this mysterious and bewitching work, designer Manon Bruet has imagined...

“Sophie was doing a series of portraits of friends reading. I suggested to her, along with our common friend Sophie Marie Le Pallec, that we make an adaptation of Mercier and Camier set in the coach on the Fécamp/Le Havre line that passed in front of...

Through her window, Sophie films her neighbours tending a community vegetable garden as seasons pass by. At the same time, she reads passages from Tristes tropiques and regularly abandons her observation post to enter the frame, meet her neighbours,...

The island in question will be imaginary, following on from that envisaged by Gilles Deleuze in his eponymous text, as a utopia and a space for possible beginnings. It will also have its Friday and be inspired by Joyce’s Ulysses. We will pick flower...

From her window, Sophie Roger looks at the landscape of her film Les Jardiniers du Petit Paris. She is addressing Pierre Creton and questioning their common territory. Between her cat and the tree in the distance, she humorously depicts a friendship ...

In each of her films (including many of those that have been shared here at FIDMarseille, over the years), it seems as though Sophie Roger has given herself a rule that is unsettling for anyone else: nothing guarantees that the secrets hidden in each...

A short film by Sophie Roger...