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ED Distribution is a distribution company in France involved in independent cinema, releasing movies by Guy Maddin, Bill Plympton, the Brothers Quay, Alex van Warmerdam...
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www.eddistribution.com
Adresse/contact :
ED DISTRIBUTION
238, rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine
75012 Paris
France
+33 (0)1 43 48 61 49
eddist@club-internet.fr
Where to find our DVD ?
> France
PARIS
- L'Atelier d'à côté
- Bimbo tower
- Blaq out
- Comme un roman bookshop
- Le Flâneur des 2 rives
- La Friche
- Genre Urbain
- Heeza
- Hors-circuits
- Moniteur bookshop
- Moniteur d'Uzès bookshop
- Palais de Tokyo bookshop
- Parallèles
- Le Pied de biche
- Potemkine
- Quilombo
- Le Souffle continu
- Videosphère
PROVINCES
- Biarritz : Le Festin nu bookshop
- Bordeaux : La Machine à lire / Mollat beaux arts bookshop / Total heaven
- Caen : videoclub Lux
- Dijon : Ciel rouge
- Florac : La 4ème dimension
- Lille : L'Hybride
- Limoges : Point show
- Lyon : Grand Guignol
- Marseille : L'Odeur du temps bookshop
- Montpellier : Sauramps bookshop
- Nantes : Vent d'ouest bookshop in Lieu unique
- Nice : The End
- Perigny : L'Ange bleu
- Rennes : Alphagraph / Videorama
- Saint-Denis : Folie d'encre
- Toulon : Contrebande bookshop
- Toulouse : Terra nova
- Vincennes : Millepages
> Foreign countries
BELGIUM
- Brussels : La Microboutique du cinéma Le Nova
SWITZERLAND
- Geneva : Aker DVD / La Librairie du cinéma
GOODBYE, MISTER CHRISTIE
Phil Mulloy
UK, 2010
animation
The return of the Christie family, whose absurd and hilarious tribulations were revealed in the series The Christies. Their very busy daily life is perturbed by the arrival of Ramon, a French sailor with an irresistible charm. With the help of a little romantic melody, he enchants every member of the family and seduces them into sleeping with him. When Ramon and Mr. Christie meet, we discover that we are actually watching a documentary about the family, and that Mr. Christie has just dropped his pants live on television. But this gesture only increases their spectatorship and makes the family even more famous. The story gets more and more twisted and can only come to a radical conclusion.
Suppléments :
- Interview of Phil Mulloy
- 2 short films by Phil Mulloy
- Extract from the 2nd episode of the Christies trilogy: DEAD BUT NOT BURIED
PUTTY HILL
Matt Porterfield
USA, 2010
drama
Cory dies of a heroin overdose in an abandoned house in Baltimore. On the eve of his funeral, family and friends gather to commemorate his life. Their shared memories paint a portrait of a community hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty, city living, and a generational divide, united in their pursuit of a new American Dream.
Suppléments :
Documentary about the film.
CABEZA DE VACA
Nicolas Echevarria
Mexico, 1990
adventure
Captured by the indians, Cabeza de Vaca ends up as a shaman's slave; with the passing of time he learns his freedom.
Cabeza de Vaca tells the story of this conqueror engulfed by the reality and fiction of the New World in a challenging and hallucinating odyssey.
Nicolas Echevarria was born in August 8th, 1947, in Nayarit, Mexico.
He studied architecture and music in Mexico City; later on he traveled to New York where he incursioned in the Cinematographic field. Nicolas Echevarria has always demonstrated a profound interest in the religious and magic world of the Mexicans indians, that is reflected on his films.
He has also reived national and international recognitions for his magnificent work as documentarist.
In Cabeza de Vaca, Echevarria excells his past films, showing the Indians World on the screen contemplate from a point of view that retains all its splendor.
WINNIPEG MON AMOUR
My Winnipeg
Guy Maddin
Canada, 2007
documentary
Winding its way though the birthplace of personal mythologies, attempting to understand the nature of memory. Equal parts mystical rumination and personal history, city chronicle and deranged post-Freudian proletarian fantasy, My Winnipeg blends local myth with childhood trauma. All narrated by Maddin’s usual entertaining and inspired energy.
Suppléments :
- 36 page color booklet (talk between Guy Maddin and Michael Ondaatje)
- Winnipeg Map drawn by Marcel Dzama,
- Two short films (NUDE CABOOSE and SPANKY)
- Travelogue on Winnipeg from the 50's (THIS WORLD OF OURS)
English dialogues with French remotable subtitles.
Beware : many intertitles in the film and they are in french only.
DES IDIOTS ET DES ANGES
IDIOTS AND ANGELS
Bill Plympton
USA, 2008
animation
Angel, a selfish and morally bankrupt man, wakes up one morning with wings on his back. Despite numerous attempts to hide his new appendages, Anegl is exposed to his community. After much ridicule, he desperatly tries to rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune. Is Angel’s misguided soul capable of being rescued ?
Suppléments :
-Storyboard of the movie
- Gallery of the exhibition « Bill Plympton, an idiot among angels »
- The various making stages of a scene
INSTITUT BENJAMENTA OU CE REVE QUE L’ON APPELLE LA VIE HUMAINE
INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA OR THIS DREAM PEOPLE CALL HUMAN LIFE
Timothy and Stephen Quay
UK, 1995
oniric tale
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa : absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school’s operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of a breakdown. There’s a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, che becomes catatonic. Things get worse ; Johannes notes that all this has happend since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect ?
Suppléments :
- Movie trailer
- EURIDYCE SHE, SO BELOVED and SONGS FOR DEAD CHILDREN : two short films by the Quay brothers
- INSIDE THE INSTITUTE : documentary
- ON THE SET OF INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA : making-of
COFFRET JOS STELLING : L’AIGUILLEUR, L’ILLUSIONNISTE
DE WISSELWACHTER, DE ILLUSIONIST
Jos Stelling
Netherlands, 1986 and 1983
cynical comedy
Angel, a selfish and morally bankrupt man, wakes up one morning with wings on his back. Despite numerous attempts to hide his new appendages, Anegl is exposed to his community. After much ridicule, he desperatly tries to rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune. Is Angel’s misguided soul capable of being rescued ?
Suppléments :
- Interview of Jos Stelling by Yves Montmayeur
- Movie scenes from ABEL and LES HABITANTS by Alex van Warmerdam
- Biographies of Jos Stelling, Freek de Jonge and Jim van der Woude
COFFRET DAVID WILLIAMS
David Williams
USA, 1982-1987, 1993, 1997
docu fiction
A very unique American film director, David Williams, is the author of two full-length features as well as numerous short films. These films received extensive festival exposure, including winning prizes at Sundance and Berlin. His movies are highly personal works, entirely written, directed, edited and produced by him. This fascinating combination of experimental, documentary, and narrative produces work of poetical lyricism and originality.
Suppléments :
Booklet english/french.
KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON
AJ Schnack
USA, 2006
documentary
KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON is a rock and roll film like no other - an intimate and moving portrait of the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain told entirely in his own voice - without celebrity sound bytes, news clips, sensational tabloid
angles or attempts to mimic a grunge aesthetic.
Suppléments :
- Color booklet
- Scenes with commentaries of the director AJ Schnack
PAYSAGES MANUFACTURÉS
Jennifer Baichwal
Canada, 2006
documentary
Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams- Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through
China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.
Suppléments :
- Deleted scenes with or without commentaries of Jennifer Baichwal
- Picture Gallery of Burtynsky’s photos
- Trailer
- Booklet in colour with 60 pages with Edward Burtynsky’s photos commented by himself
COFFRET ANDREW KÖTTING
Andrew Kötting
UK, 1984/2007, 2001, 1996
unclassable
Andrew Kötting is one of the UK's most intriguing artists, and perhaps the only contemporary film maker who could be said to have taken the spirit of visionary curiosity and hybrid creativity exemplified by the late Derek Jarman, he is also a great collaborator, building a community of shared interest around his various projects, while anchoring his prolific production in an ongoing report on the lives of those closest to him.
COFFRET ALEX VAN WARMERDAM
Alex Van Warmerdam
Netherlands, 1987, 1992
dramatic comedy
A universe between absurd and realism, both funny and frightening, reminding Buster Keaton and Lewis Carrol