Cinema

Cinema is present every day at the Centre Pompidou throughout the year in rooms, the museum and exhibitions, from single screenings to retrospectives, from exhibition-installations to festivals.

The complete retrospective of Frederick Wiseman's work continues, this time all over Paris: twenty films to be discovered at the Forum des images or the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, as well as special screenings in other partner venues. Exceptionally, two screenings will be held at the Centre Pompidou.

Frederick Wiseman (born in 1930 in Boston, USA) started writing human-centred comedies in 1967, with a predilection for sites and behind-the-scenes material where ordinary lives are lived out. His works emerge from an immense curiosity, admirable obstinacy and empathetic humanism combined with an outsider’s perspective and biting irony. They do not aim to claim expertise in social science or present us with a carbon copy of reality but, on the contrary, their objective is to transpose reality into theatricality, fiction and the quixotic, with characters often caught in performative situations and dimensions. 
This unique fresco is composed of 46 films to date, including 33 that have been recently restored, for a total of over 115 hours. The second part of this retrospective confirms that our humanities are a receptacle for the diversity of experiences and situations, combined with a moral principle: the demand for equality.

Screenings and booking on Bpi website

The works belonging to the museum's collection can be consulted: 

• on a rotational basis in the museum's rooms;
• in the "Museum Cinema" projection room on level 4.

Thanks to a regularly renewed themed programme, the space for "Collections of film, video, sound and digital works" on level 4 of the Museum also highlights a selection of works and documents from the Museum collection. Recent acquisitions, critical interpretations and current events invite us to renew our perception of the analog and digital cultures of image and sound.