Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho is a journey into the heart of an artist's lifelong struggle - designed to illuminate and satiate existing fans while serving as a perfect starting point for the uninitiated. Featuring interviews with Basho's former students, contemporaries and few close friends (including Pete Townshend, William Ackerman, Henry Kaiser and Country Joe McDonald), the documentary integrates new information and anecdotes on Basho with previously uncovered archive material and photography of the natural phenomena and landscapes that informed his work..
Shot in the mountains of Austria, Apicula Enigma (translated as the ‘bee’s riddle’) follows the journey of a bee colony. Hugonnier eschews conventions associated with nature documentaries – there is no narrative, staged content or scripted voiceover – instead the film shows the sequence of events as they happened on set. The artist deliberately exposes the process of production, revealing the camera, sound recording equipment, even the film crew. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from historical and literary accounts to recent studies of bee behaviour, Hugonnier considers how the colony and its activity mirrors the world as a whole. Central to this is the idea of the beehive as a camera obscura, a compelling metaphor which is alluded to throughout the course of the film..
A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter..
A series of anecdotes exposed from the point of view of a Samaritan woman who tries to fix the problems of the neighbors..
Do you see dead people? You just might after watching this fascinating documentary, which prowls around a haunted house on the island of Rhodes, Greece, in search of the ghost of one Amelia Fox. But what the filmmakers uncover is more than a restless spirit; they reveal a tragic love affair that ended in a woman's untimely death. Capturing spine-tingling sounds and unexplainable images, it's a ghost hunt you won't soon forget..
After conducting for 65 years, Bernard Haitink has retired at the age of 90. The musicians he has worked with are puzzled by the secrets of his technique. He himself says his job is to embrace the orchestra without suffocating them..
A missing message from rogue mathematician Alan Turing surfaces as part of the celebrations for his 100th birthday. In code, it provides the key to a century old puzzle that, if solved, will bestow academic immortality...and crash the world into chaos..
Shirley Horrocks’ doco sheds new light on the life and art of Tom Kreisler, a 20th-century New Zealand painter with scant interest in landscape but a strong affinity with Mexican traditions and the wit and verve of Pop Art..
Depressive artist Charlie Ali, 24, contemplates her mother's death after ten years. As an Arab-German American, we see what life is like through the eyes of Charlie living in a post 9/11 NYC. She meets choreographer/dancer Lucia "Lux" Bernal during her latest exhibition's opening night in LA... Lux just so happens to be the girl of Charlie's dreams!.
The Enigma of the Swastika - What are the origins of this dreaded symbol of National Socialism? How did the Swastika evolve from a Buddhist sign of good fortune to the Nazi emblem which would strike terror into the hearts of millions? Research traces the history of the Swastika through a network of shadowy occultist groups to the secretive Thule Society and Hitler's infant Nazi Party. The Eagle and the Swastika - Four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, Adolf Hitler declared war on America. This was the only declaration of war he ever issued.
After being sent to a Brazilian camp, a teenagers group are threatened and persecuted by someone mysterious..
Historian Christopher Clark re-examines the life and achievements of one of Germany's most colourful and controversial leaders, a philosopher and cultured 'Prince of the Enlightenment' whose reputation would later suffer by association with Hitler's Nazi regime..
This biography of Sviatoslav Richter, the great Russian pianist who dedicated his life to music and had little regard for fame in the West, shines a light on his formative years and places him against the setting of a chaotic USSR culture..
New media personality, Ramona Richardson, investigates the disappearances of content creators Lila, Sergio and Adam, who traveled to Cleburne, TX, one-year ago never to return. While filming an episode for their channel, Haunted Homeland, the trio unwittingly becomes the latest victims of a sinister cabal that practices ritual sacrificing..
Une compilation de vidéoclips publiés par Enigma entre 1990 et 2000..
