This Film opens a window on the Napoleon Bonaparte Campaign towards Egypt and Syria in the year 1798, and impact affected the relationship between East & West. The film while discovers some of the personal configuration of such an outstanding figure, it emerges in some traditions and life properties. Yet the film establishes Multi-Directional Cultural Dialog.
In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the globe, from the Stone Age to the present day. A walk through their great institutions to marvel at their masterpieces.
The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84) becomes fascinated by the young generation of Spanish abstract artists, so he begins to collect their works to show them to the public in Toledo. Until Gustavo Torner, a young forest engineer interested in art, proposes him to visit his city, Cuenca.
Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the “primitive” in art is problematic?
When Paul and Monet host a weekend get together at the old Broussard mansion, what begins as a fun time quickly turns deadly when an ancient family curse is awakened.
Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008, guides viewers through The Cloisters, pointing out Romanesque and Gothic architecture and artwork, beautiful tapestries, and the diverse species in the gardens. He outlines the history of the building and it's many influences and highlights significant works of art in the collection. It was produced in 1989 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Office of Film and Television.
네덜란드 역사의 어떤 점이 최근 새로운 이민자들이 당면하는 두려움의 토양으로 작용하고 있을까? 극우파 정당 '네덜란드 인민연합'을 이끌고 있는 논쟁적 정치인 콘스탄트 쿠스터스의 일상과 가족들의 모습을 통해 네덜란드 사회의 한 단면과 지난 세기 동안 어떻게 '타인'을 대해왔는지를 보여준다.
Napoleon's troops are gathering close to Waterloo. Time is running out for Bébé, a soldier who is seeking a battalion to join the Great Army. Tomorrow, the troops will launch their attack on the English. Along with his wife Ludo, in the parking lot where they have pitched their tent, they live through the last remaining hours before the fall of the Empire.
The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the still-intact museum in 1988: ancient Greco-Roman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization, as well as Buddhist sculpture that was said to have mythology--the art of Gandhara, Bamiyan, and Shotorak among them. After the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, some seventy percent of the contents of the museum was destroyed, stolen, or smuggled overseas to Japan and other countries. The movement to return these items is also touched upon. The footage in this video represents that only film documentation of the Kabul Museum ever made.
They want to overthrow democracy and kick out people who they believe do not belong to the Nordic race. The Nazi organization The Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) has in recent years become known for its extreme attitudes. Focus has been on the inside of the organization and followed key players for two years.
제레미 아이언스와 함께하는 스페인 마드리드의 프라도 미술관 탐방! 8천 점의 걸작들과 각각의 작품 뒤에 숨겨진 이야기까지. 스페인의 역사를 한눈에 볼 수 있는 위대한 미술관 프라도로 초대합니다.
A journey through four hundred paintings, all masterpieces, among the more than nine thousand treasured in the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes. The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
1810년 나폴레옹이 스페인을 점령하자 반군 세력이 형성된다. 반국 지도자 미구엘은 프랑스군에게 가족을 잃은 처녀 주안나를 구하면서 둘은 연인 사이가 된다. 스페인군이 보유한 대형포를 프랑스군에게 뺏기지 않으려고 수천 명의 반군들은 이동하려 한다. 영국 해군 장교 안소니가 이 일에 개입되면서 세 남녀는 얽히게 되는데...
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
