In an abandoned theater, French actress Marina Vlady recites from Borges' "The Immortal"... Japanese research scientist Shin Kubota sings praises to the "immortal jellyfish"... Milan Duomo workers subject the cathedral's exquisite statues to perpetual regeneration... Swiss musician/inventors Felix Rohner and Sabina Schrer persistently refine their percussion instrument, the Ha...
How does a child become an actor And how does the acting profession influence his or her relationship to the world In Ursula Meier’s documentary teenage Kacey Mottet Klein answers these very questions. Following the road from the playground to the film set, the film presents a study of how mind and body mature before the camera lens.
The Winter Olympics of 1928 in St. Moritz were the first professionally recorded on film. Fanck created a new type of Olympic chronicle: now it was a regular news coverage intended for full-fledged evening screenings at theatres. Although he had only tow cameras he managed to shoot 30000 meters of film which he used to create a poetic spectacle filled with free play of fantasy ...