Known For
Complete Filmography

Party of Fools
2024
Writer, Director
Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of ...

American Journal
2023
Director
A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie from th...

Degas and I
2019
Director
Between dance and drawings, Arnaud des Pallières relates different moments of Degas’s life and unveils some of his darker sides.

Orphan
2017
Director, Screenplay, Editor
A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually,...

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013
Screenplay, Director, Editor
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him u...

Dust of America
2011
Editor, Director, Writer
A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its inhabitants, as they are exposed in their silent but...

Diane Wellington
2010
Director, Writer
Diane Wellington disappeared in South Dakota in 1938 at the age of 15. She has just be found.

Parc
2009
Director, Editor, Writer
Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by hi...

Le Narrateur
2005
as le narrateur

Le Narrateur
2005
Director

Adieu
2004
Director, Writer, Editor
Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him ...
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000
Director, Editor
The life and work of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made me...

Disneyland - My Good Old Native Country
2000
Writer, Director
Disneyland reviewed by a true poet of cinema, Arnaud Pallières. A disturbing journey into the simulacrum.

Drancy Future
1997
Director, Writer
Director Arnaud de Pallières presents an experimental three-part film designed to stimulate the intellect and inspire reflection on the past. The firs...

avant après
1995
Director, Editor

Les Choses rouges
1994
Director, Writer
Schoolchildren tell stories in class. A worker goes home after his work day. A scholar explains ideas about colours and objects in ancient Greek phi...

What is the Act of Creation?
1987
Director
A conference given by Gilles Deleuze on the act of creation, taped on video.