Art, culture & music
The Beat of the Gamba: Africa in the Heart of Brazilian Amazonia
Gamba is a fusion of African music brought to Amazonia by the slaves with Indian songs and missionary hymns. In the 19th century, slaves fleeing the plantations and the hardships of captivity took refuge in the forest. They lived there with the Indians, who taught them to survive in the hostile envi...
The Marriage of Figaro, Diary of a Creation
In June 2012, a new version of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro opened at the Opéra de Bordeaux, directed by Laurent Laffargue. The filmmakers followed the director and his team throughout the nine months it took to produce the opera. From the first preparatory meetings to the night of the dress rehe...
TO BLO DAYI, journey to the roots of Capoeira
The roots of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, can be traced back to the fighting techniques and dances brought to Brazil by African slaves.
A group of French and Brazilian capoeiristas decide to go to the Capoeira Rencontres Internationales in Benin, the birthplace of a “game” synonymous to...
VLADIMIR VELICKOVIC, into the dark
Vladimir Velickovic is a Serbian painter. He has been living and working in Paris since 1965. Never leaving his studio, day after day, we see him working on huge paintings and large-scale drawings. While he is painting, Velickovic talks about himself and his work. He is a man who thinks out loud abo...
A barrel of laughs, 25 years of Tambours du Bronx
Evoking the Tambours' carreer this documentary takes us on a journey inside one of the most special bands in today's musical landscape. What started as a small band in a small industrial town of France has turned into an international phenomenon and their concerts have become major events in interna...
Alice Coote, Nathalie Dessay, Orfeon Donotiarra : MAHLER Symphony # 2 “Resurrection” (Artistic Confessions)
Artistic confessions on an absolute masterpiece of the post-Romantic repertoire that WARNER recorded for the first time: Mahler's titanic Symphony No. 2, a true orchestral vessel requiring at least 150 musicians and choristers as well as 2 singers. It was Paavo Jarvi, future conductor of the Paris O...
Auctioneers!
Two million objects, from the most ordinary to the most precious, change hands every year in the 400 auction rooms in France.
This is the story of life in the provincial auction house in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher, owned by Philippe Rouillac and his son Aymeric.
Every year, they hold an auction at the C...
Brigitte Engerer
Documentary tribute to the pianist Brigitte ENGERER, who disappeared on June 23, 2012. Far from a traditional biography, the film focuses on the most moving moments of the musician’s life: her childhood and life in Russia, her musical friends, her Pianoscope festival and her last concert in the comp...
Laurent Vicomte, Solitary crossing
Laurent Vicomte is considered to be the slowest author in the entire history of comic strips.
For almost 12 years, hundreds of thousands of readers have been awaiting his next album, the sequel to the mythical first volume of Sasmira published in 1997.
Behind this editorial silence lies a complex ...
Gautier Capuçon : Tchaïkovski Prokoviev (Artistic Confessions)
The French cellist Gautier CAPUÇON and the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater of Saint Petersburg under the direction of Valéry GUERGUIEV perform works by Prokofiev (Sinfonia Concertante) and Tchaikovsky (Rococo Variations).Interviews: Gautier CapuçonExcerpts Piotr Llitch Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variati...
