Frederick Olmsted’s nineteenth-century New York Central Park serves as James Garland’s studio: Summers, the park is where the artist works and sleeps. For his sustenance, James barters away the paintings. In colder months, carrying his art materials and scant belongings on his back, James…
The miracle of fertility has always remained a miracle. The filmmaker followed the trail of the unconventional Dutch-Japanese pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama who made a multi-media artwork on this theme. She created a cathedral-like space out of thousands of white dresses in which visitors, as in a ritual,…
In 1915 the biggest killer of young Australian males was Gallipoli. Today the biggest killer of young men aged 18-25 years is the road. Tasmania lays claim to Australia’s highest rate of road fatality. Young men are dying in high speed, single vehicle crashes, on lonely rural roads. DRIVE is…
Shekinah takes us into the rarefied world of young Hasidic women. Although they have rules for almost everything, their lives are filled with passion. With unprecedented access, Shekinah captures the intimate detail of their lives, breaking long-standing stereotypes and revealing secrets of which even…
Pulp Fiction profiles a fantastic avenue of escapism for people of the 20s, 30s, and 40s, who wanted to escape the mundane routine of their daily life in the grips of the depression between the two World Wars, by buying cheap fiction magazines. These writers of the golden age of fiction writing shaped…
On June 18th, 1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. Her accomplishments came to symbolize women’s achievements in an all male-dominated fields and overnight she became one of the most famous women in American History. The film is the story of Sally Ride a woman space…
Features the crew of HEART Films exploring the backcountry on snowboards, skis and sleds to bring you powder filled adventures. Captioned for the global audience. Check out more at: www.heartfilms.com ■ Starring Takafumi Konishi, Futa Adachi, Yuta Watanabe, Tomohide Inoue, Kazuumi Fujita, Yu…
Sitting on top of the earth is one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet. There are no trees just nine months of winter per year and temperatures that can fall to -70 degrees. Up on the roof of the world, isolated, desolate and constantly swept by Arctic winds there are a few men who have…
Consisting of anything animal, vegetable or mineral but with a decidedly outdoorsy slant, the comic strip TUNDRA takes an offbeat view of the woodsy side of life. Found in nearly 500 newspapers around the world, TUNDRA springs forth from the mind of Alaskan cartoonist Chad Carpenter. This film offers…
Combining history, remarkable diving sequences and the US navy salvage operation, this documentary brings to light a top secret WWII weapon and a forgotten event that led to the liberation of Italy.
Documentaire de Nicolas Jouvin © La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse (1995) A la belle époque, il y en avait peut être 1 000 à travers le monde. Et 100, rien qu'en Mauritanie. Une véritable armée à la hauteur de la tâche : nourrir le peuple d'Union…
Directed by Sophia Turkiewicz, produced by Rod Freedman. Abandoned in an Adelaide orphanage at the age of seven, Sophia feels betrayed by her mother, Helen. In early adulthood, Sophia still feels angry and resentful. Her mother is now married with two more children. Sophia rejects her new family and…
