Julien Devaux Trailers
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Most Popular Julien Devaux Trailers
Total trailers found: 45
Children’s Game #27: Rubi Trailer (2021)
03 January 2021
With all the charm of flick soccer, Subbuteo, pinball, and other miniature passions, this is played on a small circle of stubby broken-off sticks like a frontier fort buried in the sand, enclosing two facing, immobile teams also made of little sticks.
Children’s Game #35: Kluddermor Trailer (2022)
11 October 2022
Children getting into a frightful mess that only parents could sort out: this familiar scenario plays out subversively, for the rescuing ‘Mother’ is just a child.
Children’s Game #3: Coins Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
We see three kids from behind, standing at a set distance from a peeling, whitewashed wall. The rule is that each player throws a coin against the wall, that drops and rolls back on the pavement; the player whose coin remains the closest to the wall can keep the other players’ coins.
Children’s Game #14: Piedra, papel o tijera Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
This ancient Chinese game is played between two people, who in unison say ‘rock, paper, scissors’ before ‘throwing’ one of the three figures at each other: closed fist or flat hand or two fingers in a V shape.
Children’s Game #31: Slakken Trailer (2021)
07 January 2021
Snail racing is a game of unequal chances, especially when your snails are not trained champions, but randomly plucked off a wall; individual temperaments and moods count as in any sport.
Sandlines, the Story of History Trailer (2020)
25 January 2020
The children of a mountain village near Mosul re-enact a century of Iraqi history, from the secret Sykes-Picot agreement in 1916 to the realm of terror imposed by the Islamic State in 2016.
Children’s Game #6: Sandcastles Trailer (2009)
02 January 2009
The castle must be positioned just far enough from the sea to be completed before the tide reaches it.
Children’s Game #17: Chunggi Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
Reminiscent of male football tricks where a ball is juggled frontally off the knee or foot, Chunggi, popular among Nepalese girls, appears a lot more difficult.
Children’s Game #26: Kisolo Trailer (2021)
02 January 2021
Kisolo is one of a thousand variants of the global Ur-game, Mancala, a “sowing” game sometimes still played with seeds even when using a board.
Children’s Game #34: Appelsindans Trailer (2022)
13 April 2022
Each couple tries to save an orange from gravity. When it falls, the pair is eliminated. This exercise in collaboration involves intimacy: faces are only an orange apart.
Children’s Game #2: Ricochets Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
The bay is peaceful, framed by low hills in the distance. Three boys stand thigh-deep in the brown water, trousers rolled up.
Children’s Game #13: Piñata Trailer (2012)
02 January 2012
A piñata is a papier-mâché figure stuffed with sweets. Common at birthdays in urban patios, here we find it in a field, where a garish Superman dangles between tall poles on a rope jerked by an adult, to make hitting harder.
Children’s Game #29: La roue Trailer (2021)
05 January 2021
Over the city of Lubumbashi looms the mampala or slag heap of the Étoile du Congo cobalt mine, its lower slopes today sifted by the clandestins, lithium hunters who risk their lives to feed our global battery market.
Children’s Game #38: Ellsakat Trailer (2023)
09 May 2023
Neither indoors nor out, but on the doorstep, where you might play a quick game while waiting for someone.
Children’s Game #5: Revolver Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
The props in this game are wooden sticks or branches shaped like guns. Two kids pretend to fire at each other, making elaborate and highly varied shooting noises.
Children’s Game #16: Hopscotch Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
Outside a stark tent city, this version of the game involves a grid of squares, two across by six long, marked by lines gouged into the arid ground.
Children’s Game #32: Estrellas Trailer (2022)
11 April 2022
Why do all the bottle tops start the same way up, grouped together, if there are two teams? When is the ball launched with a plank and when by hand?
Children's Game #1: Caracoles Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
High above the city that shimmers like a distant sea, a boy kicks a plastic bottle half full of liquid up a steep shanty road of light and dark.
Children’s Game #9: Saltamontes Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
Girls and boys, together for once, hunt through lush grass and undergrowth, on the lookout for well-camouflaged grasshoppers.
Children’s Game #19: Haram Football Trailer (2017)
03 January 2017
In August 2017, during the final phase of the Fatah (Conquest) Operation, the Iraqi Army pushed Islamic State combatants back from the east bank of the Tigris River in Mosul.
Children’s Game #28: Nzango Trailer (2021)
04 January 2021
Born in the recent past in school playgrounds and now a national sport, Nzango is a female-only game. The aim is to imitate, or more mysteriously, anticipate, the leg movements of the facing player. The pace is set by both teams singing and clapping in unison, faster and faster. Local variants thrive, ignoring the official rules. This, the girls’ own invention, involves “minus” and “times” signs, the first a mirror image – A’s right leg, B’s left leg – the second a crossed diagonal. And yet all the outsider perceives is a series of lightning confrontations, as pairs, then other formations, hop and kick ecstatically, advance and retreat according to an inapprehensible logic, telepathically improvised, perhaps. What geometry rules the final blur of legs?
Children’s Game #36: Kujunkuluka Trailer (2022)
12 October 2022
Many of us played this as kids, spinning on the spot until collapsing. In a group there’s a competitive element, each tries to be the last one still upright; but it’s only, always, about inner sensation.
Children’s Game #4: Elastic Trailer (2008)
02 January 2008
Close-up on shiny boots, knotted elastic, cobbles. Within the confines of a courtyard two demure little girls are playing a game of confinement, entrapment, escape.
Children’s Game #15: Espejos Trailer (2013)
02 January 2013
Boys stampede through the shells of small geometric homes, fancy boxes falling to bits in a dry-grass wasteland like futuristic ruins.
Children’s Game #33: Schneespiele Trailer (2022)
12 April 2022
The most basic sense of fun improvises on chance gifts of the environment. Snow-fun is too immediate to need rules, either.
Children's Game #23: Step On A Crack Trailer (2020)
02 January 2020
A sprite in a blue pinafore, plimsolls, and white facemask flits through Hong Kong, enclosed in a quicksilver bubble of magic.
Children’s Game #8: Marbles Trailer (2010)
02 January 2010
This game requires considerable practice and precision, especially on the uneven terrain of an urban waste lot.
Children’s Game #18: Knucklebones Trailer (2017)
02 January 2017
Knucklebones, or jacks, has existed for more than 2000 years and was first played with the astralagus bones of a sheep.
Topographer Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
Action documented on video in which the artist explores and traces an alternative route, the shortest between the two buildings of the Biblioteca Nacional de México and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, with a straight line through the semi-wild zone of vegetation and lava that divides them.
Children’s Game #22: Jump Rope Trailer (2022)
06 April 2022
Stark though it is, the roof terrace with its low ochre-red wall and washed turquoise abstract seems the nearest thing to a garden among the forbidding cliffs of mass housing that rear up all around.
Ayotzinapa 26 Trailer (2016)
15 April 2016
26 filmmakers bring their own vision in order to find the truth about the missing students of Ayotzinapa.
Children’s Game #39: Parol Trailer (2023)
11 October 2023
First we drive past harrowing scenes of missile and bullet damage, into an area that’s still intact.
Children’s Game #37: Che Ling Trailer (2023)
08 May 2023
Che Ling means “pull bell sound”. This ancient Chinese juggling is a form of yoyo, once popular in Europe as “diabolo”.
Children’s Game #41: Chapitas Trailer (2023)
13 October 2023
Ordinary bottle tops, once flattened, threaded and tensed for spinning, become as sharp as gladiator swords.
Children’s Game #44: Uárhukua Trailer (2024)
14 April 2024
The Purépecha community has played Uárhukua for 3,500 years. The game symbolises the fight between the old sun – the night – and the young sun – the day.
Children’s Game #40: Chivichanas Trailer (2023)
12 October 2023
Cuban children have always built chivichanas for racing, using any wood to hand and ball bearings for wheels.
Children’s Game #43: Mosquito de Pachacútec Trailer (2024)
13 April 2024
The game “Mosquito of Pachacútec” refers to the historical metaphor of how the Inca Empire was challenged in its territorial conquests by a tiny adversary: the mosquito.
Children’s Game #42: Tenebom Trailer (2023)
14 October 2023
The name of the game comes from the Spanish “tenedor,” fork, but its other name, “Come fango, Eat Mud,” seems more apt as we watch a silvery fork, its tines reduced to one sharp prong, piercing the earth again and again.
Children’s Game #50: Schattenfangen Trailer (2025)
13 April 2025
In order to avoid being tagged, the shadow must run away. Only the body to which the shadow belongs can escape to protect the shadow from the catcher’s evil kick.
Children’s Game #49: Pau de Sebo Trailer (2024)
19 April 2024
A guitar, a bacalao and a teddy bear dangle at the top of a wooden pole. The mast is slickened with grease.
Children’s Game #48: A Corda Trailer (2024)
18 April 2024
Each person’s action affects everybody. This fine principle of teamwork applies even when individuals are pulling in different directions.
Children’s Game #47: Chalk Trailer (2024)
17 April 2024
Shot in black and white in homage to Helen Levitt, the pioneering photographer of children chalking the streets of Harlem in the late 1930s, this film records individual acts of creation by children from two schools local to the Barbican Centre in London, including students with physical and neurological diversities.
