En 1912, dans le cadre d’une Loi visant à contrôler le commerce ambulant, la République Française imposait le port d’un Carnet Anthropométrique d’identité à une catégorie administrative créée à l’occasion,…
Téhéran, juin 2013. Les Iraniens s’apprêtent à élire le nouveau président de la République islamique. Massés devant leur télévision, ils commentent la campagne présidentielle diffusée par les chaînes nationales…
D’une chanson contestataire, emblème des grands combats sociaux qu’a connu le pays occitan dans les années 60 et 70, puis symbole d’une recherche d’identité régionale et musicale dans les années 80 et 90, la chanson occitane est devenue citoyenne.…
In the coca heartland of Bolivia, slavery and liberation are still matters of living memory. In this twenty-minute film, we visit the town of Tocaña, where African descendents worked as slaves until 1952, and local people still perform dances rooted in their African cultural heritage. The film…
"Streams of Gold" tells the story of a filmmaker's journey to uncover his family’s past in the gold mines of southern Ecuador. This one-hour documentary traces the history of an American company's presence in an Andean mining town called Portovelo from the 1890's to World…
On a Tightrope tells the story of four Uighur orphans in Xinjiang, China, dreaming of becoming professional tightrope walkers - an ancient Uighur tradition. A story about the oppression of the Uighur minority in China. On a Tightrope premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Our visit with Thomas Chimes (born 1921), one of Philadelphia 's most important contemporary artists, begins at the Philadelphia Museum whose collection inspired him as a school boy to become an artist. Here he was drawn to Thomas Eakins, a fellow Philadelphian, and to Duchamp and Van Gogh. Anne…
When photography was in its infancy, the American West was still a frontier; and, for a period of about fifty years, the two interacted in a complex and fascinating way. Dramatic subject matter in the West became accessible to photographers just when the newly-discovered wet-plate process enabled them…
"TO': Day of Days", the epic Oxbow trip to Tahiti where Laird broke the sound barrier of what was possible with tow surfing. The day-by-day, blow for blow account of this history making surfing trip and what has become known as 'the Millennium Wave'. (2000 / 28 minutes).
Through a first-person account and recoursing to archive material, the documentary traces the life of Roberto Delle Fave, known as the “Red Devil”, an infamous mercenary of the Balkan war in Bosnia and Croatia between 1992 and 1995. Professional mercenary once, poor and socially marginalized…
At mid-career, Meier guides the viewer on a retrospective of his white buildings, from private houses of the 1960s to the Frankfurt and Atlanta Museums of the 1980s--all variations on his trademark spatial and planar treatment. His influences from Corbusier, Wright, Mies, and Baroque Germany are shown.…
Ryan and Sam Weber are extremely talented, hard-working, storied musicians, who struggle to define success - a confusing and elusive concept for any artist. Their journey to this point has provided them with countless opportunities to learn more about themselves and what really matters in life. Their…
