"desert"
Les Pierres bleues du désert
Najib, un jeune Marocain, fasciné par la possibilité d'existence de pierres bleues dans le désert, est incompris et exclu par sa communauté. Seul le marabout du village croit en ses qualités.
Rajasthan, musiques du Désert
Le Rajasthan : une terre aride et colorée, dont l’extraordinaire vitalité des traditions tient à ce qu’elles sont liées à des modes de pensée et de vie ancestraux de communautés rurales dont la transformation s’effectue très lentement, par absorption du passé. Des musiques populaires : fondées sur l’art ..
The Desert of the Desert
'The Desert of the Desert' is a feature documentary about one of the longest-running and least- known colonial conflicts and the plight of the Sahrawi desert nomads of Western Sahara since Morocco's 1975 invasion. Shot in Jan./Feb. 2014 in the Saharawi Liberated Territories of Western Sahara, and in the Saharawi Refugee Camps in Tindouf, Algeria, t..
Noiseless, Desert Extras
The locations are often, as we know, independent of the sites where the events narrated in the films are supposed to take place. Even more so when it comes to blockbuster films, science fiction films, fantastic or mythological films or films placed in antiquity. For it is crucial to benefit from natural light, full sun, grandiose scenery (mountains..
Chutes, desert, Syn
In "Falling. Desert. Syn" there is the body of repetition—not of tautology but of smooth resurrection; a body dying and being resurrected in a dance without suffering. A body of the desert, which is not deserted, but instead possessed by a force of attraction towards the sky, a force as strong as the one towards the earth. A body for the stars, t..
Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe
The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in thi..
The Invention of the Desert
Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children. Who are we?
Nous avons déserté
By embarking on a journey to document the art of wandering, Yann-Manuel Hernandez captures the relationships between human, nature and society in a stream of captivating images. Shot out of the system during various months in Colombia, this documentary immerses us in the life of two wanderer backpackers, the DIY culture and the search for another w..
Le Désert
A mysterious work of art examines its own existence after being abandoned in the Sahara desert, revealing the great secrets of the edges of reality.
Desertification
The following group of films highlights the major environmental problems facing our planet today. In particular they focus on waste, pollution and energy use.
Happy Desert
Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.
Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man
Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man is a full-color book (which includes a DVD) based on the captivating images of Holly Kreuter, with contributions from an additional 90 Burning Man participants, offering the reader a taste of the Burning Man experience. The DVD includes an original Score by Sean Abreu, seven slideshows featu..
The Deserter
A deserting soldier is caught and sentenced to death and his only way to win his freedom back is to convince the judge that he had no other choice. His plead tells of both supernatural entities and an extreme fear of death.
Ladakh: Desert in the Skies
The mountainous desert of Ladakh is one of the most desolate places on our planet. Here freezing winds sweep down from the Himalayas and shape the life of its inhabitants.
Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs
Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of extraordinary midcentury modern homes, public buildings and commercial structures. Modern designers such as William F. Cody, Albert Frey, William Krisel, John Lautner, Richard Neutra, R.M. Schindler, Donald Wexler..
Eden, au cœur du désert rouge
Namib, an incredible spot is home to the highest sand dunes on Earth, along with 3500 species of plants of incredible diversity, all adapted to the arid climate. Elephants, antelopes, lions, giraffes and rhinoceros roam freely in the Namib with neither fence nor enclosure, as if at the dawn of time. Management of the protected areas has been entrus..
Pétra, capitale du désert
À l'aube de l'ère chrétienne, Pétra, capitale du riche royaume des Nabatéens, bordant les déserts d'Arabie, de Syrie et du Néguev, fut absorbée par l'Empire romain et, après avoir été saccagée par les Bédouins, disparut de la mémoire des hommes ; mais ses secrets sont peu à peu révélés grâce à un énorme travail de fouilles.
Simondon du désert
French philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) is perhaps most well known for his creation of a set of concepts in the 1960s that describe our modern world and that, at the time, illustrated a vision of a growing alliance between technology and nature. Throughout his life, Simondon was studied by some prominent thinkers (among them ..
La collection Cousteau N°3-1 | Les baleines du désert
C'est à Bahia de Soledad, la baie de la solitude, que les Baleines grises se réfugient pour se reproduire. Après s'être gorgées de plancton dans l'océan Arctique, elles entreprennent inlassablement ce même voyage de 6000 km vers le sud. L'équipe Cousteau est venue les observer. Elles ne sont pas agressives, parfois juste un peu effrayées p..
La collection Cousteau N°42-1 | Les diamants du désert : Afrique du Sud (1re partie)
Les déserts du Namib et du Kalahari protègent leurs derniers trésors. Sur la piste des diamants, entre villes fantômes et sentiers interdits, l'équipe observe les Lions, les Oryx et les Springboks. Loin de la culture urbaine, le peuple Himba, dévoile la richesse de ses traditions et de son savoir-faire, tandis qu'au large des côtes, des bate..
