Making Sense of Sport

Volleyball

A playful film about volleyball, shot in October 1965 during a match in Montreal between the U.S. and Soviet Olympic teams.

Regards sur le sport : Edgar Morin

Sport is like a point in a hologram that contains within itself the whole of society. Yet it also possesses its own singularity, which lies in the nature of play. Edgar Morin, a sports enthusiast and particularly passionate about football, offers in this filmed interview his sociological perspective on the complexity of sport. By approaching it as a “total social phenomenon,” a concept central ...

Natation

A portrait of Canadian athletes competing at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, who devote every spare minute to training in the pool.