Spirituality
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Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Duration: 1h14Subscription access
In 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...
The Master and Divino
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Two filmmakers portray life in the mission of Sangradouro : Aldabert Heide, an eccentric German missionary who began filming with his Super 8 camera in 1957, and Divino Tserewahu, a young Xavánte director. From complicity to competition, from irony to emotion, they bring their archives to life, revealing the underside of the catechization of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
Camp on the Wind's Road
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After the death of her father, twenty-five-year-old Belekmaa settles down with the shepherds on her father’s remote farm. She assumes his position and hopes to see him again, if only in her dreams, before the day comes, when according to the Tuvan tradition, the spirit of the deceased would be fed for the last time and then ultimately bid farewell.
Les Fils
The ambition of the ''Sons'' (Les Fils),a new kind of religious outfit, was to get out of the presbyteries to meet the "small people", and even to work in factories alongside a poor and neglected population. In opposition to the clerical power, they took over an underprivileged neighborhood with a remarkable proximity and gave a voice to its inhabitants. They also found themselves at the heart ...
Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Vampires, It's Nothing to Laugh At
Duration: 1h14Subscription access
In 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...
The Master and Divino
Subscription access
Two filmmakers portray life in the mission of Sangradouro : Aldabert Heide, an eccentric German missionary who began filming with his Super 8 camera in 1957, and Divino Tserewahu, a young Xavánte director. From complicity to competition, from irony to emotion, they bring their archives to life, revealing the underside of the catechization of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
Camp on the Wind's Road
Subscription access
After the death of her father, twenty-five-year-old Belekmaa settles down with the shepherds on her father’s remote farm. She assumes his position and hopes to see him again, if only in her dreams, before the day comes, when according to the Tuvan tradition, the spirit of the deceased would be fed for the last time and then ultimately bid farewell.
Les Fils
The ambition of the ''Sons'' (Les Fils),a new kind of religious outfit, was to get out of the presbyteries to meet the "small people", and even to work in factories alongside a poor and neglected population. In opposition to the clerical power, they took over an underprivileged neighborhood with a remarkable proximity and gave a voice to its inhabitants. They also found themselves at the heart ...
