Science
The Cep: a wonderful apparition
A film introducing us to the cep mushroom, an autumnal treasure: from the latest scientific discoveries to its social and economic implications, by way of the culinary aspect, the film leads us through a poetical investigation of the mysteries of this legendary fungus.
Eric, an erudite ...
THE MYSTERY OF AURORA BOREALIS
It tells the story of two scientists who decided to leave for the great north, to film northern lights in 3D. Jean Mouette works at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris and has been hunting the deep space for years photographing galaxies and solar eclipses in the four corners of the planet. Thier...
How I became invisible
Camera, tracking, data, homeland security, NSA… Can we really get over the technological control? How to become invisible in 2016 ?
Listened, watched, tracked, Alexandra Ranz travels the world searching for new techniques to get rid of private life intrusion, to erase her personal data from the int...
A BORDER IN THE JUNGLE
The border between French Guiana and Brazil has always been vague and poorly defined. The current maps are old and unreliable, because the region known as the "Tumuk Humuk Mountains", at the tri-point between Surinam, Brazil and French Guiana, is difficult to access.
A demarcation line was officiall...
FLUID MOODS… being bipolar
Bipolarity is a serious psychiatric disorder that affects 1% of the population. Many preconceived ideas are deeply rooted such as being a “fun” disease. 20% of bipolar subjects commit suicide; their life expectancy is 20 years inferior to a lambda subject. Not so fun!
Never voyeuristic, the viewer p...
THE OCEAN OGRE OR THE EROSION OF THE ATLANTIC COAST
Driven by stronger and more frequent storms, the Atlantic coast is inexorably retreating while the Aquitaine coastline loses ground each year. Between global warming and occasionally invasive urbanization, man has no choice but to reinvent his relationship to the ocean. Those who have chosen to live...
Homo Orcus
May 2010 : the discovery by German and French palaeontologists of a new hominid species. An investigation into the existence of this “intra-terrestrial” plunges us into a profusion of scientific, philosophical and moral questions.
The beginning of 2010 was full of surprises for those interested in...
Stars and Men
On the occasion of the World Year of Astronomy in 2009, this documentary offers to enter the wings of one of the biggest European Services of Astrophysics (the SAp) and to discover, behind research, those who are in charge of it.
For one year, we follow the everyday life of persons who live the coun...
