Art, culture & music
Goudji, Sacred Art !
Goudji, the goldsmith dearly beloved by bishops and Academicians, is known in artistic circles as a creator who defies classification: gold working would seem to be a forgotten art, but yet, impressed by his talents, numerous museum curators have opened their doors to him. Goudji is the first artist...
HAYASTAN, THE IMAGINARY COUNTRY
In April 2010, I followed the Armenian national rugby team on a trip to Yerevan. The team is mainly composed of players from the French Armenian Diaspora. Between the historical imagery passed on by their grandparents and the reality of Armenia today, there has been 70 years of Communism...
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Memoriae or the story of a creation
Documentary based on the chamber opera "Memoriae, voice of childhood, voice of exile", written and directed by Orianne Moretti.
An original documentary in the form of a making-of, combining interviews, rehearsal sessions and on-stage extracts, retracing the history of this show.
Michel Onfray, a philosophical life
These intimates documentaries have been put together from more thirty hours of previously unseen, unedited interviews, and a large amount of personal archive material, also never previously seen: family photos and films; rare and profound moments generously shared with us in his village, Argentan, i...
Quatuor Ebène : Debussy, Fauré, Ravel – string quartets (Artistic Confessions)
Rehearsal and recording of works by Debussy, Fauré and Ravel with the Quatuor Ebène under the artistic direction of Etienne COLLARD. The Ebène quartet composed of Mathieu HERZOG, violist, Pierre COLOMBET, first violin, Gabriel LE MAGADURE, second violin and Raphaël MERLIN, cellist, met in a rural se...
Gérard Caussé : Bach suites (Artistic confessions)
Meeting with the French violist Gérard CAUSSE on the occasion of the release of his album "Bach 6 Suites de danses": extracts from suites by Jean Sébastien BACH and interview with Gérard CAUSSE about Bach and his artistic collaboration with Laurent TERZIEFF .Interview Gérard Caussé Excerpts Bach 6 D...
IN THE CLICK OF A SHUTTER
In this film we follow the photographer Malik Nejmi on a journey through the world of horse-race betting. A world with its own symbols, gestures and rituals; a world in which passion, energy and hope are concentrated in a fraction of a second, but also in seemingly endless waiting.
It’s also a road-...
Nathalie Dessay, Ludovic Tezier : BRAHMS REQUIEM (Artistic Confessions)
On the occasion of the recording of a disc, Natalie DESSAY and Ludovic TEZIER, with the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choirs, under the direction of Paavo JARVI, perform "A German Requiem" by Brahms.The recording is interspersed with the interview in English with French subtitle...
Philippe Jaroussky : Fauré requiem (Artistic Confessions)
It is with the Paris Orchestra conducted by Paavo JARVI that counter tenor Philippe JAROUSSKY records Réquiem, Pie Jesu by Gabriel Fauré. The German baritone Matthias GOERNE performs Réquiem, Libera me by the same composer. Alternating interviews with Philippe JAROUSSKY, Paavo JARVI and producer Phi...
Pietragalla, Between Heaven and Earth
Portrait of the French dancer and choreographer Marie-Claude Pietragalla.
Discipline, rigour, will and commitment are all adjectives that define the temperament of Marie-Claude Pietragalla, who was named principal dancer of the Ballet de l’Opera National Opera de Paris in 1990.
At 35, she decided t...