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Through archival materials and testimonies, this documentary retraces the journey of Erik Satie, a composer who, by refusing to belong to any musical school, established himself as a pioneer of modernity.

Un giovane ragazzo che vive in un remoto villaggio sulle Ande sogna di diventare sciamano.

Eccentric, talented Gondry, brilliant jack-of-all-trades, convinced the creative elite of international pop music to film his music videos (Björk, the Rolling Stones) before allowing him to chart his own course to winning an Oscar.

A sleepless night with director Michel Gondry who talks about his chronic insomnia, his childhood and his inspirations.

Es war eine spektakuläre Entdeckung für die Wissenschaft: Der Papyrus, der unlängst im Depot des Louvre wiedergefunden wurde, scheint eine antike Partitur zu sein. Die Doku begibt sich auf eine Reise zu den geschichtsträchtigen Stätten von Delphi und Pompeji, um längst verloren geglaubte Klangwelten hörbar zu machen.

Let's give back to the plastic sandal the place it deserves in the humanity shoes Pantheon. If nobody has forgotten the nightmare it was wearing it every summer, who knows its true story? Who did wonder about the extraordinary destiny of this plastic bead invented by accident? Who remembers that after being created in Auvergne, it went through exile, privations and wars? Who knows that it embodied a society ideal and the promises of a better world? Who could imagine that it would be involved in one of the greatest pages of the 20th century History, until becoming the icon of an entire population? It is time to look back on the dark and glory times of the plastic sandal.

December 29th 2020 will mark the centenary of the Tours Congress during which the French socialist party (SFIO) split and gave birth to the French Communist Party. The questions asked during the Congress have had a great place in the left-wing history throughout the XXth century : in order to reform society and allow social progress, do you need to be take part of the State system (and then to govern) or do you have to fight it (and make revolution)? Does progress better operate through reformist compromise or by revolutionary violence? Is the national framework legitimate or should it be majored by internationalism? Those questions were asked in the unstable context of the post First World War era, marked by the Russian Revolution and the Spartacist uprising in Germany. Very divergent answers were given by different groups clamming to be « the only true Socialists ». The irremediable split of socialism was acted and would never end. Today, thirty years after fall of the Soviet Union, the consequences of the Tours Congress are stil present in the recomposition of the French left, at a time when the dream of an ecological revolution has replaced the dream of a proletarian revolution.

From Paris to New York via Berlin, this documentary investigates the history of the artwork Fountain and takes us on the trail of the eccentric "Dada Baroness, " Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927)

Michel Houellebecq is a writer immersed in the society of spectacle, a sociologist often solicited to make sense of our times, a cryptic prophet who warns us of dark and ominous future. The portrait he paints of contemporary France isn't flattering. He lays bare the mediocrity of his fellow citizens; denouncing sexual liberalism as "absolute violence" ; decrying the ravages of an unfair market for love ; lashing out at the emptiness of a civilization built on television and supermarkets. It is the portrait of a disaster prophet, a national image who keeps mourning our lack of collective social project as well as the impossibility to love.