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Het Nieuwe Rijksmuseum, delen 3 & 4

2013

Het Nieuwe Rijksmuseum, delen 3 & 4

2013
Heart vs Mind: What Makes Us Human?

2012

Heart vs Mind: What Makes Us Human?

2012
David Malone asks if we are right to see the heart as merely a brilliant pump or whether it should be allowed to reclaim something of its old place at the centre of our humanity. The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body.
Siberian Tiger Quest

2012

Siberian Tiger Quest

2012
Embark with conservation ecologist Chris Morgan on a great challenge: to find and film the Siberian tiger.
Silence

2012

Silence

2012
Claire Denis visits Bergman's home, browses his collection, and discusses his impact on her work. Part of Trespassing Bergman.
The Nature of Cities

2014

The Nature of Cities

2014
The Nature of Cities explores both the nature in our own backyards - San Diego and Austin - and the possibilities in projects of cities of the future in Malmo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Freiburg, Amsterdam and Paris.
Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

2013

Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

2013
A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change.
Inside Obama's Presidency

2013

Inside Obama's Presidency

2013
The first four years of Barack Obama's presidency include battles with Republicans over health care, the economy, and the expansion of targeted killings of enemies.
Hockney at the Tate

1988

Hockney at the Tate

1988
To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an exclusive private view of the exhibition and they were filmed discussing pictures from all stages of Hockney's remarkable career.
Cody High: A Life Remodeled Project

2014

Cody High: A Life Remodeled Project

2014
Cody High: A Life Remodeled Project focuses on the efforts of the impoverished Cody Rouge community pulling together to provide safe pathways for children by removing blight and abandoned homes in Detroit. In 2014, with the partnership of Life-Remodeled, a Detroit-focused non-profit organization, the Cody-Rouge Community rose up alongside over 10,000 volunteers in order to remodel three schools, tear down three burned-out houses, remodel 25 homes of students and their families, board up 254 vacant houses, and remove blight/create beauty on 303 blocks. Cody High: A Life Remodeled project skillfully portrays the powerful stories of community members directly involved, and how their lives are being shaped as beacons of hope within the great City of Detroit.
Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis

1993

Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis

1993
A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas and western modernism to achieve intercultural architecture
Warriors of Joy: A Native American Celebration in Louisiana

2014

Warriors of Joy: A Native American Celebration in Louisiana

2014
Every Year in New Orleans, Louisiana the Mardi Gras Indian tribes gather on the Sunday closest to St. Joseph’s Day to celebrate their pride and joy. Influenced by his father Les Blank, son Harrod Blank joins the parade with his camera. This is a tribute piece to “Always for Pleasure”.
He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan

2013

He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan

2013
Annie Goldson and Kay Ellmers’ doco, expanded from the film they made for Maori Television, takes a timely look at New Zealand’s military and media, notably journalist Jon Stephenson, in Afghanistan.
The Pedophile Hunters

2014

The Pedophile Hunters

2014
With unprecedented access to one of the most controversial agencies within America's Department of Homeland Security, this film follows US agents in Cambodia as they track down American pedophile sex tourists. Working with local activists and police, the American agents use forensics and surveillance techniques to collect damning evidence of sexual predators preying on young children.
Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

2014

Nathaniel Dorsky: An Interview

2014
In his contribution to the On Art and Artists interview series, Nathaniel Dorsky (b.1943) begins by discussing his childhood love of the John Ford film Stagecoach and its influence upon his decision to make films while attending Antioch College. Describing the affinity he developed for work operating at the intersection of film materiality and personal language, Dorsky explains how he developed his philosophy of the “devotional film” and the “microcosmic viewer.” Dorsky likens his practice to Buddhist sculpture, referring to himself as a “Japanese poet continuing aspects of the ethos of the Marxist revolution.” In the interview, the artist describes his use of the screen as an “altarpiece for the image” and emphasizes his use of editing to create works which “harmoniously coalesce.” Interview conducted by Jeffrey Skoller in May 2000, edited in 2014.
The Second Day

2011

The Second Day

2011
On September 11, 2001, 4 year-old Brook Peters was attending his second day of kindergarten a few blocks from the World Trade Center in New York City when two planes struck the Twin Towers. Completed when he was 14, The Second Day provides a unique and hopeful perspective on 9/11 through the eyes of young people and educators who lived through it.
Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard

2012

Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard

2012
Survivors of Hiroshima discuss their lives amid the rubble after they are reunited with pictures they drew as children in 1947.
Who Cares

2012

Who Cares

2012
Documentary following the stories of Courtney and Shelly, two former Edmontonian prostitutes.
The Chairman and the Lions

2012

The Chairman and the Lions

2012
As recently as forty years ago, most sections of the Maasai were semi-nomadic and relatively independent of the nation-state. However, political, social and economic changes in East Africa have forced many herders to adopt a sedentary lifestyle. The Chairman and the Lions introduces Frank Kaipai Ikoyo, a charismatic Ilparakuyo Maasai who, at thirty-three, is the leader of a Tanzanian village called Lesoit. Ikoyo was elected to his post at the age of twenty-six in part because he had completed primary school. That someone so young would be accorded such authority would have been without precedent not long ago. Yet this ethnography of Ikoyo's duties as village chairman shows how literacy and insight into the workings of the nation-state are essential for Maasai to combat the many lions, both real and figurative, that beset them: land grabbers, "bush" lawyers, unemployment, out-migration and poverty.
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2008

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2008
Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility throughout a variety of landscapes. After its role in the last century's call to a radical new architecture and urban life, glass architecture is today more ubiquitous than ever.
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2010

Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2010
"Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering" presents a series of detailed lectures during which the past, present and future of metal is discussed. Speakers such as José Rafael Moneo, Mabel Wilson and Steven Holl bring forth examples of the material's merit and methodical use over the past two centuries. The engineerical history addressed during the conference highlights the developmental and aesthetical reliance designers have consistently felt towards metal as a material. Citing its form, structure and construction, the lecturers analyze the material's anatomy, tracking its adaptation and growth within the architectural world.