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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dr. David Eagleman explores memory as an important pillar of self, and reveals that rather than being a faithful record of our past, memory is fallible and often unreliable, making our life of memories more personal mythology than digital recording..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the largest gathering of humanity for religious purposes on the planet, and host Bruce Feiler is there. This is the Kumbh Mela, the great Hindu festival where pilgrims come from across India, and around the world, to bathe in the water where two sacred rivers meet. Such mass bathing in the Ganges has been...
43) Mexico City
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Artists from Mexico City exit their homes and studios to use the growing megalopolis as their canvas.. In this episode, Damian Ortega, Pedro Reyes, Minerva Cuevas, and Natalia Almada reveal how they present everyday materials as artworks, mine recognizable images for their poetic potential, and take their art to the streets.
44) Chicago
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Chicago is a city rooted in industry and towering architecture, and artists like Nick Cave, Theaster Gates, Barbara Kasten, and Chris Ware are disrupting that urban experience through experimentation.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The final episode focuses on the spiritual connection between artisans and their communities. The personal stories of gifted artisans reveal the deeply held belief that craft is about more than just the making of an object. The episode profiles Pilchuck School of Glass, Penland School of Craft, Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, potter Sarah Jaeger, jewelry maker Denise Wallace, and the team of basket maker Dona Look and master jeweler Ken Loeber..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Craft in America explores the vitality, history and significance of the craft movement in the United States and its impact on our nation's rich cultural heritage. Capturing the beauty, creativity and originality of craftsmanship, the film highlights artists and explores the inter-relationship of what they do, how they do it and why they have chosen a life of creating art..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The first episode takes a personal tour through craft's history in America. The intimate stories of some of the country's most prominent craft artisans are set against the larger historical context of craft itself. The episode includes visits to woodworker Sam Maloof, furniture maker Garry Knox Bennett, basket makers Mary Jackson and Pat Courtney Gold and metalsmith Tom Joyce..
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles, is one of three great festivals in the Jewish calendar when, in ancient times, Jews from across Israel were commanded to come to the Temple in Jerusalem on pilgrimage. But although Jewish pilgrimage lessened in importance after the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 62CE, Christian pilgrims began coming to Jerusalem and the Holy Land within centuries of Jesus’ death. During the week of Sukkot, host...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Host Bruce Feiler travels to Nigeria with a group of African American pilgrims who are attending an annual festival in honor of the Yoruba Goddess Osun as a way to reconnect with their cultural and spiritual roots. This indigenous African faith, sometimes called Orisa Devotion, was first carried to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade where it evolved and spread to become one of the ten largest religions in the world with upwards of 100...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the human brain in an epic series that reveals the ultimate story of us, why we feel and think the things we do. This ambitious project blends science with innovative visual effects and compelling personal stories, and addresses some big questions. By understanding the human brain, we can come close to understanding humanity..
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Kapsalides - a close-knit family of mum and two daughters who are proud of what they’ve achieved as a sole-parent household.. Helen was born in Australia to a Greek father and Lebanese mother. She met her Greek husband when she was 23 and had two children before she discovered from police that he was a bigamist. Although she divorced him, her daughters Julie and Simone say the family has never said a bad word about their father, who has...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Each year, millions of tourists come to Australia looking for the quintessential "Aussie experience", but are they getting anything more than koalas, boomerangs and a shrimp on the barbie? This four-part series takes an eye-opening journey behind the scenes of Australia's multi-billion dollar tourism industry.. Selling Australia reveals a world of ruthless marketing where canny entrepreneurs are determined to give visitors exactly what they want,...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In tropical far-north Queensland, Cairns is a tourist mecca. As planeload after planeload of visitors arrive, even the customs officials are getting training in hospitality and cultural sensitivity. For tourists, the town seems pretty close to paradise, but it’s not quite perfect. Cairns has no beach. No problem - Cairns City Council has decided to build one. However, as the heavy machinery moves in, some locals are up in arms. It seems that, for...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Enter the fun and mayhem of the Puckeridge family - mum, dad and five very active children aged two to ten.. Life in this household is a constant juggling act, as Sally and Dave negotiate with their kids over food, haircuts, baths and bed, and with each other over school and religion. These are familiar scenes of bills, endless washing, weekend sports, the frenetic noise of games, the strange quiet of sleep.. Dave leaves for work at six in the morning,...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Chakos family - a lively Greek-Australian household in the Sydney suburb of Sans Souci.. Energetic 60-year-old Despina is at the family’s centre. She runs a weekend plant stall with her sprightly 81-year-old mum Aphrodite and cooks fabulous Greek dishes for the extended family that gathers regularly around her table. Dinner is always an animated affair as four generations share jokes, news and opinions.. Despina lives with husband Steele...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Images of the outback and indigenous culture have been used to sell Australia for decades, yet few Australians have had significant contact with either. In this episode, two sets of tourists seek an authentic Aboriginal cultural experience: one a busload of 38 Americans on a whirlwind package tour; the other, a small group of mainly Australians heading for a remote desert community where they will take part in five days of traditional song and dance...
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