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A portrait of Germany.

Cathédrale de Chartres - L'exploit architectural

Pursuing Beauty: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck

PURSUING BEAUTY: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck tells the story of a 19th century romantic who used 20th century materials to create buildings that speak across time. The body of work that Maybeck created is remarka

TR in a rowboat on Oyster Bay, Archie assists with boat to shore, 1914

On Oyster Bay, Theodore Roosevelt rows alone away from shore. In the second sequence, his son Archie and an unidentified boy beach the boat as Theodore Roosevelt looks on.

The Face – Storefront for Art & Architecture

Sasha Pirker THE FACE – STOREFRONT FOR ART & ARCHITECTURE (2011, 4 min, digital)

The Ice Archipelago

The film tells about the amazing archipelago of Spitsbergen, which is completely covered with glaciers, and about the unique flora and fauna of the islands. It is located at 78 degrees north latitude. The film also tells

Hawaï, l'archipel le mieux gardé d'Amérique

Kingdom of Archers

Kingdom of Archers explores the way a unique cultural tradition in the tiny mountain kingdom of Bhutan is rapidly evolving - for better or for worse.

La Vérité sur Freud, des archives Freud à #MeToo

Archana

Archana is a 1966 Indian Malayalam film, directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan and produced by T. E. Vasudevan. The film stars Madhu, Sharada, K. P. Ummer and Adoor Bhasi.

Luis Barragán, Architect

Luis Barragán (1902- 1988) is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary architects and one of the principal figures of twentieth-century international architecture. Since 1980, when he was granted the Pritzker Pr

Japanese Archipelago: Horror Ghost Zone

The first film in the 'Japanese Archipelago' series. This is a video that shows images of places with explanations of ghost zones such as Maruyama-cho, which is called the birthplace of the famous candy store ghost, and

Adventures in Architecture

British architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the world's most unusual and interesting buildings, structures and sites, believing that architecture and a culture's aspirations and beliefs are intertwined. Amon

Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed)

Jill Godmilow's six-hour archive of The Mabou Mines ensemble's controversial 1990, gender-reversed production of William Shakespeare's King Lear documents the first two-week workshop on the play at the Theatrical Outfit

Tawny Pipit: Archive of Disappearance

Exploring the dual extinctions of ecosystems and inherited relations to them: Northern Italian, Spanish, and French bird song imitators, or Chioccolatori, adapt their centuries old tradition to produce an archive of crit

The Power of the Archive

Filmed in Genoa, Paris, London, New York and Athens, The Power of the Archive recounts the creation, organisation, function and planning approach of the archive of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. A place of experiment

My Visual Archive

My Visual Archive contains footage of war films and Chinese model operas, produced by the prolific August First Film Studio during the Cultural Revolution. Chinese propaganda films focused mostly on the courage of the Pe

Ana Cosmic Archivist

Archive

It’s all natural phenomena. There’s no doubt about that. The tide turns in cycles. Water rots wood. Meteors may fall anytime, anywhere. It’s just rock burning in the atmosphere. Fishes die if they stay out of the water f

Childhood of an Archipelago

A film about the remote islands of Penghu archipelago, Taiwan, from the point of view of the children in the remaining elementary schools, between 8 and 11 years old. With the participation of the schools in the islands: