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The Last Cartoon (2022)
Character: N/A
The end of the world of humanity as seen by Mandico. A time, as much future as current, where “cinema will be will be all other and nothing else”. Where, “it will be the last appointment of the flesh”, where “the energy will be cannibal and the sun will reflect to say nothing”. Pessimistic or optimistic is this cinematic pamphlet on art? In this destroy, and barbaric, jubilant and cinematic transgressive performance, it's up to you to think. Because thus spoke Bertrand Mandico...
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La déviante comédie (2024)
Character: N/A
Fictional rehearsals for the invisible show: Conann the Barbarian. While a virus ravages the earth, Octavia Foss directs the macabre musical Conann the Barbarian. During rehearsals, the actresses are infected by their characters.
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Nous les barbares (2023)
Character: Chiara
On the set of a film in the making, four actresses take turns guiding us. They unknowingly drag us into their damnation.
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Rainer's Ungodly Camera (2024)
Character: ('Rainer') / Chiara ('We Barbarians')
While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire "Barbarian Cycle" that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented in this program are: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in a Skull Valley (26min); Apocalypse After (35min); and We Barbarians (27min).
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1917 (2019)
Character: Lauri
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
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Le Vourdalak (2023)
Character: Anja
The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile forest while working as an emissary for the King of France.
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De l'or pour les chiens (2021)
Character: La retraitante
Esther, a young woman from the South of France moves to Paris at the end of the summer to look for her summer crush. She is in for an intense and romantic journey.
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Frère et Sœur (2022)
Character: La jeune conductrice
Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
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After Blue (Paradis sale) (2022)
Character: Ivresse
In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison.
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Juste ciel ! (2023)
Character: Novice Charlotte
Five nuns set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle.
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Dragon Dilatation (2024)
Character: N/A
Dragon Dilatation is the union of two filmic essays, Petrouchka and La Déviante Comédie. The first part is a rereading of Stravinsky’s ballet, while the second segment is made up of traces of an unpublished performance rehearsed at the Théâtre des Amandiers.
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La Fille d'un grand amour (2025)
Character: Cécile
Ana and Yves loved each other passionately, then parted ways. Years later, their daughter Cécile made a documentary about their meeting. They meet again. Still scarred by their past love, they set out to find a way back to each other.
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Conann (2023)
Character: Conann 15 ans
Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths and ages. From her childhood, a slave of Sanja and her barbarian horde, to her accession to the summits of cruelty at the doors of our world.
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