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GOLD MEN, RESISTANT FOR EARTH
The Gold Man Prize is known as the “Nobel Prize” for environmentalists. Every year since 1990, this famous North American award recognizes people who go through extraordinary struggles to preserve our planet.
Sébastien Viaud is a French teacher and a photographer. He went for a trip around the worl...
Marcus Miller: « Tutu revisited »
According to Marcus Miller, it’s Miles who guided him towards developing his own personal style. After playing in the Miles Band in the 1980s, Miller was given the opportunity to write and produce an album for his childhood hero. The result was the innovative album "Tutu".
"This musical project is o...
ROUGE CIEL
The Japanese Kunizo Matsumoto cannot read nor write, yet he has invented a form of writing that is both beautiful and enigmatic.
The American George Widener, who is capable of memorizing events of the last 1,500 years, can also predict the future, which he inscribes in his “magic squares”, on a pape...
The World and Us – 15 year-olds
Who are they and what are their dreams ? From privileged backgrounds or apprentices, student fishermen and farmers, these 15-year-olds invite us to share their daily lives, their joys and their sorrows. Parents, love, sexuality, studies, work, politics… Teenagers full of life, astonishingly mature a...
Dust and illusions, a short history of Burning Man
For the last twenty years a totally unique event has taken place in Nevada, in the middle of the vast Black Rock desert, on the site of an ancient dried up lake surrounded by arid mountains: Burning Man. In 2008, it attracted 40,000 visitors. Many were there for the first time, but most of them had ...
The PUPPINI SISTERS
The Puppini Sisters are a British female pop/jazz trio specialising in a capella singing and inspired by the close harmony techniques widely used in the 1940’s. Their style combines glamour, kitsch and burlesque.
They met in a London school of music and take to their very 40’s and 50’s world big ...
YAMANA, BACK TO PATAGONIA
Where does our need for elsewhere, traveling and adventure come from? What are we expecting from these definitive or momentary exiles ending up sometimes in unfulfilled expectations? Where do they lead us?
Almost ten years after his first trip in Patagonia, Fabrice Marquat, “motorbike-film maker”, ...
LARGO
The documentary “Largo” proposes to go through Largo Winch's creation, a successful French-Belgian comic strip series.
Through the past 15 years, the main character, Largo Winch, a young billionaire wearing jeans who live amazing adventures, allowed the comic books series to become a best seller : u...
Musical portrait : Jean-Christophe Spinosi and the Matheus Ensemble
Both violinist and conductor, Corsican musician Jean-Christophe SPINOSI has been combining his two passions since 1991, when the Matheus quartet was created. The group quickly opened up to other instruments to venture into the most diverse repertoires and Spinosi then devoted himself full time to th...
OLIVIER MANOURY QUARTET LIVE AT NEW MORNING, Paris
French musician and bandoneonist Olivier Manoury, has always been drawn to trying new things and works with a wide variety of musicians.
This time, he’s appearing with a fully electric quartet: bandoneón, bass, piano, electric piano (Fender-Rhodes) and drums. Influenced by tango, funk, Piazzolla ...