Cédric, Clément, et Elise sont des jeunes percussionnistes. Ils finissent leur parcours de musicien au sein du département des percussions de l'Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg-HEAR. Une année pour se préparer à prendre son envol vers une future carrière de soliste…
Humans have always used body and performance enhancements, but should we be better than we are? Society seems generally pleased with restoring human functions but uncomfortable and even opposed to enhancement of human capabilities. But have humans always been cyborgs? This short documentary explores…
The Final Gift follows Therese Bartholomew's pursuit to find meaning in her life after her brother’s murder. Her vision for the film grew out of her desire to meet and understand the killer. In December 2010, that meeting occurred and was filmed in a South Carolina prison. The meeting was…
An in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Alcino Silva, Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Psychiatry and Psychology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Director of the Integrated Center for Learning and Memory at UCLA. Alcino Silva runs a learning and memory lab at UCLA that…
A comprehensive conversation between Howard Burton and Stephen Scherer, the GlaxoSmithKline Research Chair in Genome Sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. Stephen Scherer discusses his lifelong passion for science that culminated in his groundbreaking discovery of copy-number…
A comprehensive conversation between Howard Burton and Stephen Scherer, the GlaxoSmithKline Research Chair in Genome Sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. Stephen Scherer discusses his lifelong passion for science that culminated in his groundbreaking discovery of copy-number…
Are we born with an innate sense of “the good”? Do we learn from others what is “wrong”? Does religion determine, or is it a result of, morality? An in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and primatologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, who is renowned for his work…
An in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Matthew Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley. This extensive conversation gives a clear and compelling picture of our recent understanding of sleep's essential…
A fun festival in New England Ma. Get to watch and in a way experience the scenery of musical performances and dances.
The South face of the Marmolada marked the life and mountaineering evolution of Rolando Larcher: the Trentino climber legend arrived for the first time at the summit of the South at the age of 19, in 1985. Since then he continued to open up new routes around the world. The last route on this face, the…
Fisch follows Italian climber Federica Mingolla up the famous rock climb via del Pesce, a.k.a the Fish route in English or Weg durch den Fisch in German. First ascended in 1981 up the South Face of Marmolada in the Italian Dolomites by the “Czechoslovakians” Igor Koller and 17 year old Jindrich…
In this two-part conversation Philip Zimbardo, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, relates his intriguing life history and the survival techniques that he developed from the particular dynamics of his upbringing in the Bronx to his quarantine experiences, his experiences with South Bronx…
