Famed French artist, photographer, writer and actor Hervé Guibert riveting self-portrayal of his last months and journies living with AIDS. Hervé is seen here in this film with his Panasonic video camera documenting his life. The scenes are shot from June 1990 through March 1991 in Paris France and a respite on the island of Elba.  The film was first shown on TF1 (French Television 1) on January 20th, 1992, shortly after his death on December 27th, 1991.  The film portrays a very personal look into the human condition.

Modesty and Shame

A Swiss woman has a pen pal in a death row of a prison in Texas. She builds up a long and intense relationship to him and so, intensively and personally committed, she brings in some humanity in this machinery of prison. In this way she tries to fight against death penalty.

Schreiben gegen den Tod

"Homosexuality, this painful problem "... It was thirty years ago, the title of a program of Ménie Grégoire! But what has happened since the seventies, when France was transformed and the gay movement emerged? For gays and lesbians, thirty years of fights, hopes and despairs, thirty years of parties, sufferings and mournings, victories and emancipation. Thirty revolutionary years, pink and black, on which Yves Jeuland has examined, in an approach that is at once documentary, historian and ethnographer. First part: "Red years" (1971/1979) "Pink years" (1979/1984) Second part "Black years" (1983/1991) "Rainbow years" (1992/2002)