James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
本片是一部通过对哲学家陈嘉映教授的重要思想交流和日常精神活动的记录,专注探讨当代精神生活纪录片。片中呈现了陈嘉映教授与当代富有独立精神的思想者、学术同仁、朋友、学生等以各种形式展开的交流故事,从当下与未来,人生与事业,世界与个体,观念与常识等命题出发,探讨在深陷现代性困境的当代社会和我们的生活中,人的“精神性努力”的价值及其可能,鼓励着我们不懈的认识自我,“人是通过意义来保护自己的生存”。
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...
丝棉缠绵,正蓬鬆扩张的,不只是棉花,还有整个中国。 硬铁路串起软棉花生产线,从边城棉田到城市加工厂,一粒新疆的棉花种子如何成为美国时尚舞台上正伸缩跃蹬的牛仔裤?纪录片视线紧贴产业链,第一线直击,由棉花的种植、採摘、纺织、製衣,而至销售出口,目睹中国棉花产业之全貌,直探棉花覆盖下各式产业相关人士生活,无论棉农、纺织女工、中盘商、大宗出口。棉花活儿从来不简单,指上柔软蓬鬆,日子要怎麽硬挺才能过去,一团棉花揉出千百种生活型态,耗时八年,银幕上呈现今日中国棉花史,也是一页农工生活史。 「在中国,与棉花这条生产链相关的人数以千万计,我们解读棉花,也想从中解读『中国製造』之于中国普通人的意义。」──周浩
In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as 'the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece.' With exclusive access to these original recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness.
攀登家于1000英尺陡峭悬崖的真实体验,为求于悬崖壁上寻找未被发现的动物物种。
1975 年,美国面临社会和政治动荡,电影制作人却将混乱转化为艺术。本纪录片对那个动荡时代如何催生出《出租车司机》《飞越疯人院》和《电视台风云》等经典影片进行了探寻。
在過去工商社會發展的年代,農村子弟紛紛以離農為目標。而在宜蘭縣深溝村則有一位陳阿公,鼓勵所有後輩甚至自己的孫子來投入農業,為臺灣的產業均衡、糧食安全盡一份心力。透過無私地分享,以及在社區大學教學,陳阿公也成為大家的老師,教導大家農村的智慧、喚回大家對土地的熱愛。
2020年,一群名为“短鼻家族”的野生亚洲象群离开了老家云南西双版纳,踏上漫长的北迁旅途。它们穿越人类城市,到达有纪录以来亚洲象在我国最北之地,向生存极限发起挑战。 他们为什么出走?这个种群最终命运如何? 腾讯可持续社会价值事业部(SSV)与中国外文出版发行事业局解读中国工作室合作,联合拍摄COP15主题纪录片《与象同行》,通过从未公开的罕见野生亚洲象社会行为镜头,深度还原了“短鼻家族”北迁南返的前因后果。