The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.

Née en 1969 dans les forêts de Bornéo, Nénette vient d’avoir 40 ans. Ce n’est pas rien… Il est rare qu’un orang-outan atteigne cet âge-là ! Pensionnaire à la ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes - à Paris - depuis 1972, elle voit, chaque jour, des centaines de visiteurs défiler devant sa cage. Naturellement, chacun y va de son petit commentaire…

Documentary. The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic, an asylum in the truest sense of the word

When the management of the Paris Museum of Natural History decided that their vast collection of taxidermied wildlife was in need of restoration, Philibert decided that the 3-year process needed to be documented.
As the painstaking work of re-ruffling feathers and replacing tiny glass eyes and wings is thoughtfully observed, so too is the complex relationship between humans and animals, as the filmmaker grants a visceral subjectivity to these macabre and beautiful objects.