Dans les années 1950 l'artiste ivoirien, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré invente une écriture à partir de sa langue, le bété. Pour créer son alphabet, il tire de la langue bété 400 mots monosyllabiques et les représente sous…
Partant d'une phrase de Sigmund Freud définissant le deuil et d'une réflexion de Hannah Arendt sur le comportement des intellectuels allemands en 1933, Nurith Aviv laisse parler ses amis, en Allemagne, de ce qui, à leur sens, est irrémédiablement perdu. En…
A documentary revisiting the global television phenomenon LOST. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, as well as members of the loyal fan base who still celebrate the show twenty years after it originally aired.
Eine Filmreihe mit Kurzspielfilmen und Interviewfilmen Unter Cybergrooming versteht man das gezielte Ansprechen von Minderjährigen im Internet für sexuelle Kontakte. Täter:innen bauen anonym oder mit falscher Identität im Netz ein Vertrauens- und Ab-hängigkeitsverhältnis…
After decades of working in relative obscurity, author and memoirist Violette Leduc exploded onto the French literary scene in 1964 with the publication of her taboo-breaking memoir The Bastard. Engaging frankly with her experience as an illegitimate child, homosexuality, and abortion, Leduc challenged…
"Since their explosive breakout album in 2000, At the Drive-In— and then as their next incarnation, The Mars Volta— have fearlessly redefined the progressive rock genre. Fronted by Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, two outsiders from El Paso, their unique style…
Looks at reactions to Britain's nuclear defence, under mounting fears for world peace. The lack of protection for the public has provoked various responses, which are set up against each other in the film/ This justaposition of differing arguments givens an impression of the atmosphere surrounding…
"Sailing the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, Timothy ""Speed"" Levitch waxes philosophical as the city's most eccentric tour guide. Speed's bombastic and psychedelic poetry is captured in the documentary THE CRUISE, the groundbreaking debut feature film…
This 1976 film demonstrates the techniques used on how both the helper and the disabled person can manoeuvre with mutual comfort and dignity. It begins with the first principles of movement of the human body and shows the most basic handling techniques. Special attention is given to everyday tasks such…
Mongane Wally Serote is a black South African poet who was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1944 and was educated in Lesotho, South Africa and USA. Now in exile, he is head of the cultural department of the African National Congress. In this interview he talks to Ralph Mzamo, himself is a South African…
Richard St.Barbe Baker was still campaigning when he died at the age of 92. - "We have to plant forest trees for our lives". He brings world attention to the alarming rate at which the world's deserts are expanding, because of tree felling and overgrazing. Includes footage from his 1952…
