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The object of my love
The object of my love
The search for stories to write a script about love. While she investigates those mythical and literary stories that left a mark on the collective imagination, she comes across, along the way, other plots of real and contemporary love affairs.
The object of my love 2014
A Minute Ago
A Minute Ago
A Minute Ago, which debuted this fall at High Art gallery in Paris, revolves around rotoscoping, the animation technique Rose calls “collaging in time and space.” Her most impressionistic work to date, the work takes its point of departure from two pieces of footage: a YouTube video of a freak summer hailstorm on a Siberian beach, and a tour given by the architect Philip Johnson of his landmark Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, just a few years before his death at age 98. “I was thinking about the relationship between shocking, catastrophic weather conditions and collage, which has a similar uncanny, suturing quality,” Rose says. Accompanied partly by a down-pitched version of Pink Floyd’s 1971 concert played “to the dead” at Pompeii, the work has an unsettling, morose quality.
A Minute Ago 2014
The Original Food Truck, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner
The Original Food Truck, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner
"The Original Food Truck," Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner tells the story of Haven Bros. Diner, the oldest operating diner on wheels. The original fast food, the first food truck owned by woman, this late night lunch cart has served patrons for over 120 years. Located in the birthplace of the American diner, Providence, RI, the documentary centers around the fact that Haven Bros. was almost lost to the modernizing of Providence. The diner was moved from its reserved parking spot next to Providence City Hall, and this was considered blasphemy to its loyal followers. In the words of lifelong Providence resident and founder of artists' collaborative AS220, Umberto Crenca, "It's not just the physical reality of it being here, but the conceptual reality of it being not here. What would be missed?" The story of Haven Brothers is the story of the American Dream, the American diet, and what it is to be a success. Written by Haven Brothers Movie
The Original Food Truck, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner 2014
The David Whiting Story
The David Whiting Story
An effort to solve two lifelong mysteries---who was David Whiting (who died mysteriously in an Arizona motel during a Hollywood film shoot) and what was the cause of his death? And what was the mythic 'Cesar Romero joke' which all the filmmaker's classmates still remember as utterly hilarious (but nobody can recall what the joke actually was)?
The David Whiting Story 2014
Las Marthas
Las Marthas
Marthas is a PBS documentary about an extraordinary rite of passage in Laredo, Texas where teenage Mexican-American girls debut in a grand Colonial Ball dressed as American revolutionaries - a tradition that goes back 114 years.
Las Marthas 2014
Double Happiness
Double Happiness
Double Happiness takes the Chinese copy of Hallstatt, a small idyllic town in Austria, as a starting point to explore China's fast urbanization. Chinese cities are built where histories and memories can be easily forgotten and thus rewritten. The film intersects the real and the fake through visual imaginary and commentary, interviews and songs.
Double Happiness 2014
Women Of Malolos
Women Of Malolos
A musical docudrama about the brave and outstanding Women of Malolos to whom Jose Rizal addressed his famous letter in Feb 22, 1898.
Women Of Malolos 2014
The Old Winter
The Old Winter
Asa Bodine returns to inherited farmland to rebuild his life 40 years after he left it during Depression-era Kentucky. Directed by John A. Coulter.
The Old Winter 2014
D-Day's Sunken Secrets
D-Day's Sunken Secrets
June 6 1944 saw the world’s biggest amphibious assault, one of the most important military campaigns in history and a pivotal moment in the Second World War. For generations, historians, archaeologists and other experts, in their attempts to reconstruct the events of the day, have scoured every battlefield – except one. Just off the coast of Normandy is a lost graveyard, where hundreds of objects lie on the sea bed.
D-Day's Sunken Secrets 2014
America's Secret D-Day Disaster
America's Secret D-Day Disaster
6 weeks before D-Day, British, American, and Canadian soldiers took part in a dangerous rehearsal for the Normandy invasion which claimed more American lives than the attack on Utah Beach. So what happened? How many Americans died? And who is to blame?
America's Secret D-Day Disaster 2014
Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini
Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini
Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through archival documents, autobiographical texts and love letters, the documentary paints a portrait of the woman who helped create the myth of the Duce.
Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini 2014
Blown Away
Blown Away
Cyclone Tracy 40 years on, exploring the myths and revealing new perspectives on one of the worst natural disasters in Australia's history.
Blown Away 2014
Brothers in Arms: The Pals Army of World War One
Brothers in Arms: The Pals Army of World War One
This film tells the epic story of the young men who joined up together, fought together and died together in World War One. It draws on a unique collection of filmed interviews with veterans in their nineties and hundreds who vividly remember how they volunteered with their friends in the first days of war to serve in Kitchener’s Army and the Pals Battalions. They relive the heroism and heartbreak of the pals in the trenches who went over the top together.
Brothers in Arms: The Pals Army of World War One 2014
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum)
There are about 140 landscapes painted by Claude Monet in Pourville during 4 long stays between 1882 and 1897. The coastline has hardly changed since then. Enriched by the historic dimension Wyborny presents a panorama of this coast by superimposing Monets paintings with the present reality of the location.
Studies on Monet (In the Imaginary Museum) 2014
The Red Tent
The Red Tent
The Red Tent is a sweeping tale that takes place during the times of the Old Testament, told through the eyes of Dinah (Rebecca Ferguson), the daughter of Leah (Minnie Driver) and Jacob (Iain Glen). Dinah happily grows up inside the red tent where the women of her tribe gather and share the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood. The film recounts the story of Rachel (Morena Baccarin), Leah, Zilpah and Bilhah, the four wives of Jacob. Dinah matures and experiences an intense love that subsequently leads to devastating loss, and the fate of her family is forever changed. The all-star cast also includes Debra Winger and Will Tudor.
The Red Tent 2014
New Worlds
New Worlds
The 1680s bring a new king, Restoration and more tyranny. In Massachusetts, a robber's son falls for an anti-monarchist. In England, young lady falls for an outlaw.
New Worlds 2014
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Peter Part 1
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David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Peter Part 1
In part one of this documentary series, television actor David Suchet goes on a compelling journey in search of Simon bar Jonah, better known as St. Peter. The one time fisherman turned leading disciple became an important historical figure in the story of Christianity. Following the Biblical account, Suchet charts the turbulent and miraculous career of St. Peter.
David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St. Peter Part 1 2014
Royal Cousins at War
Royal Cousins at War
At the time World War I broke out, the King of England, the Czar of Russia, and the Kaiser of Germany were first cousins. This two-part series looks at the role played by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England, and their relationships with each other, in the outbreak of war. Mismanaging their countries and mishandling foreign policy, they failed to adapt to the forces of nationalism and democracy, and so brought tumbling down their own ideal of a Europe governed by the descendants of Queen Victoria. While it was war that delivered the final blow, this fascinating series shows how the problems had set in much earlier.
Royal Cousins at War 2014
The Great Fire
The Great Fire
An insight into what happened on the night of 2 September 1666, the Great fire of London.
The Great Fire 2014