Professor Alice Roberts explores the UK's past, focusing on six key eras by exploring the stories of towns which best illustrate each.
"I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one's own curiosity and intuition." (Michael Glawogger) More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
由“棱镜门”事件,斯诺登让全世界认识到:数据就是21世纪的石油,掌控数据就能拥有财富和权利。在大数据时代,我们在互联网上的每一次点击,支付和下载都在透露我们的信息。但由谁来掌控这些数据?这些数据又对我们的社会意味着什么?《民主:沉醉在数据中》将镜头对准了欧盟的立法进程,深入欧盟内部,记录了欧盟委员会委员维维亚娜·雷丁和年轻的绿党议员让·菲利普·阿尔布莱希特在两年半的时间中,为制定欧盟首部数据法案做出的努力。本片以数据法案为切入点,真实而又感性地展现了欧盟复杂的权力架构和民主议程。(豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组)
腔棘鱼又称“空棘鱼”,英文名(coelacanth),由于脊柱中空而得名。由于科学家在白垩纪之后的地层中找不到它的踪影,因此认为这个登陆英雄已经告别了世间,全部灭绝了。在1938年,接近圣诞佳节的某一天,在非洲南部的科摩罗群岛附近,南非的博物馆员玛罗丽·考特内-拉蒂莫在巡视渔民捕的鱼时发现的,而受到全世界的瞩目。此鱼被推测是在约3.5亿年前出现,6500万年前即已绝灭的总鳍类(有穗边鳍的同类)中的一种腔棘鱼。总鳍鱼类不但能呼吸空气,而且能使用鳍来当作脚走路,这是鱼类向两栖类进化的重要证据。在距今4亿年前的泥盆纪时代,腔棘鱼的祖先凭借强壮的鳍,爬上了陆地。经过一段时间的挣扎,其中的一支越来越适应陆地生活,成为真正的四足动物;而另一支在陆地上屡受挫折,又重新返回大海,并在海洋中寻找到一个安静的角落,与陆地彻底告别了。本片记录了海洋生物学家罗伦巴勒斯塔和团...
The Cayman Islands. It is a Caribbean paradise of sun, sea and cocktails, but there is something else going on. Big money, big corporations... and seemingly no one paying a penny of tax. Now Jacques Peretti travels to Cayman in search of the truth about this controversial British tax haven, and uncovers some shocking revelations for what this sun-drenched island means for everyone back in Britain. Jacques meets the politicians, playboys and ex-pats on the islands in a bid to unravel the truth about a place with the population of Bognor Regis... but a trillion pounds in the bank!
讲述三个美国少女克洛伊、萨迪、莉莉都是从中国领养的,她们在23andMe(一家上市个人基因组和生物技术公司)发现彼此是有血缘关系的亲戚。三人在线上会议激励年轻女性面对关于她们错位历史的迫切问题,第一次见面后,她们开启了千载难逢中国之旅,寻找答案。
Following the steps of an English botanist, in the landscapes of the Normandy coast, people and cameras look at flowers. This is an essay on attention and friendship, a cinematic herbarium.
《上访》是中国新锐导演赵亮拍摄的一组纪录片,于2009年5月30日上映。赵亮自1996年开始拍摄这部纪录片,因对上访人的状态感兴趣而拍摄,其后坚持了12年,直到北京奥运会后才完成拍摄。国际版(在戛纳电影节上播放的版本),片长124分钟。