Art, culture & music
PORTRAIT : Frank Braley
Meeting with the pianist Frank BRALEY who looks back on his career, embellishing it with a few anecdotes: his first piano lessons with his mother, his first teachers, his entry into the Paris Conservatory at the age of 18, the international competition of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium in 1991. He then ...
PORTRAIT: François Frédéric Guy
Portrait of the pianist François-Frédéric GUY, who talks about his training and his artistic journey, the recording of a record, his meetings with conductors and composers, his relationships with the pianist Nicolas ANGELICH, of his work with young students, of his desire to concentrate his repertoi...
PORTRAIT: Sergio Tiempo
Portrait of the Venezuelan pianist Sergio TIEMPO who says he owes his vocation as a concert performer to Martha Argerich.This documentary is made up of archive images including personal archives, an interview with Sergio TIEMPO and some interpretations by the pianist, as well as extracts from concer...
Secret stories of primitive arts
The scientists of the Louvre’s laboratory examine closely the pieces exposed in the Quai Branly Museum, which opened its doors on June 23rd, 2006. At the feet of the Louvre’s Museum is a magic and secret place, at the intersection of art and science : the research and restoration’s center of french ...
Georges Ricard Cordingley’s journey
A Lifesaving boat in the fog. Newfoundland, end of the 18th century.
In this boat, survivors for a ship wreck. Among them, one man different from the others. This man is a painter. His name is Georges Ricard Cordingley.
This half dead man starving and suffering from the cold weather was a few ...
The Ballet d’Europe
The BALLET D’EUROPE, conducted by Jean-Charles Gil, is a professional dance compagny of 14 young dancers from 20 to 35 years old coming from all over the world.
Putting together nationalities to perform unusual contemporary choregraphic creations is the cultural and human challenge illustrated in...
The Most Beautiful Horses in the World, as seen by Yann Arthus Bertrand
A meeting with the internationally acclaimed photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand, during the compilation of his book “Chevaux”.
Although best known for his aerial photography, Yann Arthus-Bertrand has always had a passion for animals, from the big cats of Africa down to man’s most faithful friends, do...