Spirituality
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Speakn' Trane
Duration: 38 minutes
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_Speakn’ Trane_ is a visual conversation that considers one of the great masterpieces of music through the eyes of its creator. Mirroring the dialogue at its core, it mixes 16mm film and digital images, performance and nature footage to illustrate the revolutionary themes and ideas that would combine to craft the album _A Love Supreme_: the generative practice of meditation, the creative potent...
Mountain Flesh
Duration: 36 minutes
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In a Swiss mountain village, hikers head out, a fountain splashes reassuringly and a churchwarden prepares a mass. There’s something going on here, but what is it? Men with high-tech measuring instruments pepper the landscape, and local people study their surroundings intensely. An ecological dystopia about a community living under constant threat.
Manakamana
Duration: 1h58
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Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, _Manakamana_ is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity.
Brass Unbound
Wind instruments set off from Europe on a victorious pilgrimage to all corners of the globe accompanied by representatives of the army, commerce and the church. They gradually conquered the most distant lands and captivated exotic nations. Based on a scientific study, the film uses musical instruments to capture the fusion of primitive and received cultures.
Impetus
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A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and reactivation. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before o...
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
Ch'ul be, Sacred Path
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_Ch'ul be_ delves into the Tzotzil sacred path, exploring ancient collective commitments that sustain the cycle of life in the community. In San Andrés Larráinzar, everyone is responsible for the collective well-being, but few are chosen to follow the path of serving the gods. _Ch'ul be_ is the path of Martha and Diego, and of Román and his son Tino. It is a journey from the everyday to the div...
Fausto
On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literatu...
Kwaku Ananse
Drawing upon the rich mythology of Ghana, this magical short film combines semi-autobiographical elements from Owusu's life with local folklore to tell the story of a young American woman who returns to West Africa for her father's funeral.
Séance
To what extent does a creator’s spirit linger in the objects of their creation? The _Casa-Museo_ of Turin-born architect and designer Carlo Mollino—at once a total artwork, a living space, and the backdrop for his erotic photographs—seems like the perfect place to explore this question. The camera searches for spiritual traces, while a woman with mediumistic abilities intercepts signals from be...
Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Duration: 1h14In the 1960s, an anthropologist thinks he has discovered the existence of a vampire woman in a Kashub community in Wilno, Ontario. Kinga Michalska returns to the village still recovering from the trauma of this coverage, using a skilful blend of archival footage and performance to question the relationship between lived reality and scientific "truth".
For You, Lord, For You
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
The Lord's Ride
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For the Yenish, respect for one’s elders and religious fervour flirt indifferently with vandalism. Fred Dorkel is one of them: feared and respected by his community, he earns his living by stealing cars. One night, his life is turned upside down: an angel appears to him. For Fred, this is the sign of a second chance that he has to take. He decides to settle down, but this choice creates a clash...
Spirit Emulsion
A woman's connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Meanwhile, amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, an ancestral act of sovereignty extends into the future. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion evokes a language for Taíno filmmaking in relationship to the earth and co...
Lake of Fire
The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful saviour - otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. The collage documentary _Lake of Fire_ shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuel the climate change related "hell on earth" in a dangerous way.
Le jeu des miroirs de Kali
A work of electroacoustic music by composer Félix-Antoine Morin created from recordings made in North India in 2013.
On Zenith’s Edge
Natyvel comes from a people in Gabon - the Fangs - where the dead never leave the living. But since becoming Christians, they can no longer hear them. Lost between what she knows and what she sees, the director leads a spiritual quest that reveals the history of a traditional religion that has not been passed on.
Cielo
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The Atacama Desert in Chile is known as the refuge of astronomers: the sky observed there at night is breathtaking. This sky feeds the research of the scientists who work in the observatories; it also feeds, for generations, the imagination and the legends of the local communities. For the deep mysteries that the universe presents to us are what science and belief have in common. A true love po...
Lourdes
The rock of the Lourdes grotto has been caressed by tens of millions of people who have left the imprint of their dreams, their expectations, their hopes and sorrows. At Lourdes, all frailties and all forms of poverty converge. The shrine is a refuge for pilgrims who expose themselves, both literally – in the pools where they immerse themselves undressed – and figuratively – in this direct, alm...
Rapa Nui
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Sound immersion on Easter Island, now officially named "Rapa Nui", after the native Polynesian people who settled there. It is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world, lost thousands of kilometers between Tahiti and the Chilean coast. A volcanic land beaten by the winds and waves of the Pacific Ocean, it is home to many myths and is populated by stone giants: the moai. A few ste...
Speakn' Trane
Duration: 38 minutes
Subscription access
_Speakn’ Trane_ is a visual conversation that considers one of the great masterpieces of music through the eyes of its creator. Mirroring the dialogue at its core, it mixes 16mm film and digital images, performance and nature footage to illustrate the revolutionary themes and ideas that would combine to craft the album _A Love Supreme_: the generative practice of meditation, the creative potent...
Mountain Flesh
Duration: 36 minutes
Subscription access
In a Swiss mountain village, hikers head out, a fountain splashes reassuringly and a churchwarden prepares a mass. There’s something going on here, but what is it? Men with high-tech measuring instruments pepper the landscape, and local people study their surroundings intensely. An ecological dystopia about a community living under constant threat.
Manakamana
Duration: 1h58
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Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, _Manakamana_ is an acute ethnographic investigation into culture, religion, technology and modernity.
Brass Unbound
Wind instruments set off from Europe on a victorious pilgrimage to all corners of the globe accompanied by representatives of the army, commerce and the church. They gradually conquered the most distant lands and captivated exotic nations. Based on a scientific study, the film uses musical instruments to capture the fusion of primitive and received cultures.
Impetus
Subscription access
A filmmaker in the midst of a shoot in New York begins to question the origin of impulse. When her lead actor leaves the production, she must rely on ingenuity to see the project through. Moving between fiction and documentary, New York and Montreal, *Impetus* is a reflection on creation and reactivation. Blending poetic essay and autofiction, it is also a film about a film being built before o...
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
Ch'ul be, Sacred Path
Subscription access
_Ch'ul be_ delves into the Tzotzil sacred path, exploring ancient collective commitments that sustain the cycle of life in the community. In San Andrés Larráinzar, everyone is responsible for the collective well-being, but few are chosen to follow the path of serving the gods. _Ch'ul be_ is the path of Martha and Diego, and of Román and his son Tino. It is a journey from the everyday to the div...
Fausto
On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literatu...
Kwaku Ananse
Drawing upon the rich mythology of Ghana, this magical short film combines semi-autobiographical elements from Owusu's life with local folklore to tell the story of a young American woman who returns to West Africa for her father's funeral.
Séance
To what extent does a creator’s spirit linger in the objects of their creation? The _Casa-Museo_ of Turin-born architect and designer Carlo Mollino—at once a total artwork, a living space, and the backdrop for his erotic photographs—seems like the perfect place to explore this question. The camera searches for spiritual traces, while a woman with mediumistic abilities intercepts signals from be...
Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Duration: 1h14In the 1960s, an anthropologist thinks he has discovered the existence of a vampire woman in a Kashub community in Wilno, Ontario. Kinga Michalska returns to the village still recovering from the trauma of this coverage, using a skilful blend of archival footage and performance to question the relationship between lived reality and scientific "truth".
For You, Lord, For You
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
The Lord's Ride
Subscription access
For the Yenish, respect for one’s elders and religious fervour flirt indifferently with vandalism. Fred Dorkel is one of them: feared and respected by his community, he earns his living by stealing cars. One night, his life is turned upside down: an angel appears to him. For Fred, this is the sign of a second chance that he has to take. He decides to settle down, but this choice creates a clash...
Spirit Emulsion
A woman's connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Meanwhile, amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, an ancestral act of sovereignty extends into the future. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion evokes a language for Taíno filmmaking in relationship to the earth and co...
Lake of Fire
The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful saviour - otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. The collage documentary _Lake of Fire_ shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuel the climate change related "hell on earth" in a dangerous way.
Le jeu des miroirs de Kali
A work of electroacoustic music by composer Félix-Antoine Morin created from recordings made in North India in 2013.
On Zenith’s Edge
Natyvel comes from a people in Gabon - the Fangs - where the dead never leave the living. But since becoming Christians, they can no longer hear them. Lost between what she knows and what she sees, the director leads a spiritual quest that reveals the history of a traditional religion that has not been passed on.
Cielo
Subscription access
The Atacama Desert in Chile is known as the refuge of astronomers: the sky observed there at night is breathtaking. This sky feeds the research of the scientists who work in the observatories; it also feeds, for generations, the imagination and the legends of the local communities. For the deep mysteries that the universe presents to us are what science and belief have in common. A true love po...
Lourdes
The rock of the Lourdes grotto has been caressed by tens of millions of people who have left the imprint of their dreams, their expectations, their hopes and sorrows. At Lourdes, all frailties and all forms of poverty converge. The shrine is a refuge for pilgrims who expose themselves, both literally – in the pools where they immerse themselves undressed – and figuratively – in this direct, alm...
Rapa Nui
Subscription access
Sound immersion on Easter Island, now officially named "Rapa Nui", after the native Polynesian people who settled there. It is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world, lost thousands of kilometers between Tahiti and the Chilean coast. A volcanic land beaten by the winds and waves of the Pacific Ocean, it is home to many myths and is populated by stone giants: the moai. A few ste...
