This film is dedicated to the work and play of Terrence McKenna, on the fractal edge of time, 1946-2000. Terence Kemp McKenna was an American author, public speaker, metaphysician, psychonaut, philosopher, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self-described anarchist, anti-materialist, environmentalist, feminist, Platonist and skeptic. During his lifetime he was noted for his knowledge of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, mysticism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, biology, geology, physics, phenomenology, and his concept of novelty theory..
Program in which Jeroen Pauw talks to famous Dutch people who tell candidly about their lives. By agreement, the broadcasts take place after their death..
The two sides of the end of culture–in all the aspects of knowledge as well as in all the aspects of perceptible representations exist in a unified manner in what used to be art in the most general sense. In the case of knowledge, the accumulation of branches of fragmentary knowledge, which become unusable because the approval of existing conditions must finally renounce knowledge of itself, confronts the theory of praxis which alone holds the truth of them all since it alone holds the secret of their use. In the case of representations, the critical self-destruction of society’s former common language confronts its artificial recomposition in the commodity spectacle, the illusory representation of the non-lived..
The Seven Last Words of Christ was commissioned so the piece could be performed in the church of Cadiz for Good Friday. The priest quoted the words of the Christ, followed by a musical accompaniment. Haydn completes these seven movements with a final Earthquake. Jordi Savall invites us to listen to the original score in the very place where it was premiered, the church of Santa Cueva in Cadiz..
En Bulgarie, six femmes sont faites prisonnières à cause de leur engagement contre le fascisme. Elles supportent sans broncher les humiliations qu'on leur inflige en attendant leur exécution..
Also known as Hong Kong..
The Survivors of the WW2 Battle of Arnhem tell their stories of the brutal and exhausting conflict..
Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt..
An unknown man appears at a funeral. In front of the mourners, he gives a final greeting to the deceased..
The Last Word (Persian: حرف آخر) is a 2009 social drama Iranian film Written And Directed By Hossein Shahabi. This is a film about Iranian champion athletes..
The reconstruction of the stories of witnesses and participants in the execution of the royal family, the investigation of which has not yet been completed. Many of the evidence and investigation materials have been made public for the first time. It is based on the story of the people who shot the royal family, which was recorded in 1964 on the instructions of Nikita Khrushchev. These audio recordings have been kept classified for many years..
A judge is a court that has issued a death sentence to a defendant, but after issuing the sentence, he doubts his decision, and this issue causes new events..
The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death..
À la terrasse d'un café parisien, un écrivain se découvre un pouvoir inattendu..
Francesco makes an impression of a man who is in unity with himself and nature. His way of living seems unshakable. But all this can be destroyed after he discovers some girl who hanged herself on the territory of his farm..
Nikos Mamangakis speaks from his heart for the last time. Familiar and unknown, international and local, elitist and popular, this composer served many musical genres and left an emblematic legacy. Important audiovisual material comprising unique salvaged clips from his last concert and rehearsals frame 84 years of a life in music: a passionate heritage for humanity, for art and life..
Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting "Lebenszeichen"..
Inspired by the life of Bat Masterson. After a violent war has broken out between the Cowboys and Native Americans, Bat finds himself lying on the ground, badly wounded, after a heroic showdown. Shot and on the brink of death he is visited by Mobius. As Mobius consoles him they revisit Bat's choices and how they have defined his life. He'll be left to make his toughest one yet, whether to live and fight or die..
An elite group of soldiers serving during the Korean War is sent deep into enemy territory to destroy the fortress at area 598, knowing all too well that most or all of these brave men will be lost..
