Art, culture & music
Pierre and Les Ogres: a tribute to Pierre Perret
Militant poet and songwriter Pierre Perret celebrates a career spanning 60 years.
To celebrate the occasion, the Ogres de Barback look back over his repertoire with a plethora of politically engaged artists, including Olivia Ruiz, François Morel, Tryo, Alexis HK, Féfé, Flavia Coelho, Danyèl Waro, J...
Stories of Hip-Hop
Portraits of dancers and artists take us on a journey through the hip-hop of yesterday and today, and tell us about the evolution of an urban dance style that’s become an art in itself.
Forty years after its invention in the Bronx lowlands, hip-hop is filling theatres big and small in France. Festi...
The Catacombs, a Society Beneath the Cobblestones
Thrill-seekers, photographers, painters and historians… several hundred people descend into the 300 kilometres of tunnels formed by the catacombs of Paris on a regular basis.
With its customs, culture and means of communication – as well as the tensions between the different communities - the cat...
The Wind Laughs in the Cornfields: portrait of Maurice Joffo
Born of Jewish parents of Russian origin, Maurice Joffo, brother of the author of the bestseller "A Bag of Marbles", tells of his childhood and adolescence in occupied France, his life and his amazing journey to becoming the wealthy 87-year old man that he is today.
From his flight to the Free Zone ...
Biguine – Inheritance
Martinican musical history is largely marked by colonisation, slavery, the wars of influence between the old European colonial empires and the eruption of the Montagne Pelée in 1902.
The development of its music, like its population, has followed a historical evolution. Martinique music has its orig...
Chartres Cathedral, Back Into the Light
Between 2014 and 2016, the most spectacular and emblematic areas of Chartres Cathedral will be restored: the 35m nave with its soaring walls and the windows framed within it, reputed to be the most beautiful in Europe. It’s an exceptional opportunity to take a closer look at this jewel of Gothic art...
JACQUES GODIN, towards the light
It's a pictorial adventure: a painter at work filmed under the eye (the camera) of the filmmaker within the confines of the studio. It’s the filmmaker’s point of view in this intimate and silent space, in which only the painter speaks. Over time, between the first brush stroke on the white canvas an...
MEDIAMAN, 2 seasons for 4 hands
Mediaman, 6 meters high, sits prominently in the Montauban Hospital roundabout since 26 years.
Unfortunatly this monumental piece of work has been deteriorated due to bad weather. Something has to be done to give it a new life.
A documentary about creation and artistic collaboration.
My life as a double bass
« Forgive me if I am a bit of a show-off but I deserve it. I am 140 years old and have a successful musical career behind me. I was born in 1880 in Mirecourt, the birthplace of French stringed instrument making. And then ? Well, follow me along the roads of France and enjoy the trip that my double b...
