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Sciapode
Sciapode is a French film production and distribution company headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2003, the company specializes in producing European feature films, both fictional and documentary, blending different genres and art forms. History Emilie Blézat founded Sciapode in 2003 to produce films by "strong and ambitious filmmakers."Sciapode official website Retrieved: 18 March 2013. Her first production, '' Blush'', a 2005 choreographic film directed by , met with public and critical acclaim. Encouraged by this experience, she produced films such as |
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
''Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow'' is a 2010 Sophie Fiennes documentary about the German industrial artist Anselm Kiefer's creation of a 40 hectare work in progress at an abandoned factory complex outside Barjac, France. Kiefer moved to the South of France from Germany in 1993 and began creating his art installation, "La Ribaute" on 35 acres of land belonging to an old silk factory. The film begins with a lengthy silence to show the tunnels and spaces the artist created before showing the artist and his process in creating the installation and a large landscape painting. The film opened at Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The ci ... in 2010 as a special screening. References External links * * 2010 documentary films 2010 films French documentary films 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Imbach
Thomas Imbach (born 1962) is an independent filmmaker based in Zürich, Switzerland. With his production company Bachim Films, Imbach produced his own work until 2007. He then founded Okofilm Productions together with director/producer Andrea Staka. All of his films have been released theatrically and Imbach has won numerous awards for his work, both in Switzerland and abroad. With ''Well Done'' (1994) and ''Ghetto'' (1997) Imbach established his trademark audio-visual style, which is based on a combination of cinema- verité camera-work and fast-paced editing. His fiction features ''Happiness is a Warm Gun'' (nominated for the Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival), as well as ''Lenz'' (2006), '' I Was a Swiss Banker'' (2007) and the fictive autobiography Day is Done (2011) all premiered at the Berlinale. His latest feature film Mary Queen of Scots celebrated its premiere in Locarno and at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. His latest docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoire Terminus
''Victoire Terminus'' is a French 2008 documentary film about women's boxing in Kinshasa. Synopsis Summer 2006, Kinshasa. Martini, Jeannette, Hélène and Rosette spend everyday sparring with Coach Judex in the old Tata Rafael stadium; the same one where Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American former professional boxer, entrepreneur, minister and author. In boxing, he was nicknamed "Big George" and competed between 1967 and 1997. He is a two-time world heavyweight champio ... in 1974 during one of the most legendary matches in boxing. At dawn, thousands of people from the ghetto come to train and political parties rally. While others fight for the Presidency of Congo, Judex struggles to organise a woman's boxing tournament with very little money... Kinshasa sings, Kinshasa starves and Judex's girls try to survive, they're realistic but still full of hope. A film about women in a country where men have gone craz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monopod (creature)
Monopods (also called sciapods, skiapods, skiapodes) were mythological dwarf-like creatures with a single, large foot extending from a leg centred in the middle of their bodies. The names ''monopod'' and ''skiapod'' (σκιάποδες) are both Greek, respectively meaning "one-foot" and "shadow-foot". Ancient Greek and Roman literature Monopods appear in Aristophanes' play '' The Birds'', first performed in 414 BC. They are described by Pliny the Elder in his '' Natural History'', where he reports travelers' stories from encounters or sightings of Monopods in India. Pliny remarks that they are first mentioned by Ctesias in his book '' Indika'' (India), a record of the view of Persians of India which only remains in fragments. Pliny describes Monopods like this: Philostratus mentions Skiapodes in his ''Life of Apollonius of Tyana'', which was cited by Eusebius in his ''Treatise Against Hierocles''. Apollonius of Tyana believes the Skiapodes live in India and Ethiopia, and as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayn Traub
WAYN (an acronym for ''Where Are You Now?'') is a social travel network. Its stated goal is to ''help discover where to go and meet like-minded people.'' WAYN was founded in 2002. WAYN has been known to send spam emails to all contacts of its users Others have raised concerns that they misuse users data to make money. Other sources of income include showing advertising for places a person is visiting. Like other social networking services, WAYN enables its users to create a profile and upload photos. Users can search for other users and link them to their profiles as friends. In 2015 it claims to have over 20 million users. In late 2016, the website was bought by Lastminute.com for 1.2 million which allows the project to continue but was insufficient to pay off debts. Before the sale the site had been losing money and traffic. As of 22 January 2021, it is no longer a social network website, it now operates merely as a gateway for Lastminute.com to sell its products. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amin (film)
''Amin'' is a 2018 French drama film directed by Philippe Faucon. It was selected to screen in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Moustapha Mbengue : Amin Sow * Emmanuelle Devos : Gabrielle * Mareme N'Diaye : Aïcha * Noureddine Benallouche : Abdelaziz * Moustapha Naham : Ousmane * Jalal Quarriwa : Sabri * Émilie Gavois-Kahn : The director * Ouidad Elma : Selima * Fantine Harduin : Célia * Loubna Abidar Loubna Abidar (born 20 September 1985) is a Moroccan actress. Career Abidar was born in Marrakesh. She made her film debut in '' Much Loved'', which was directed by Nabil Ayouch. The film was banned in Morocco due to its graphic sex scenes. In ... : The waitress References External links * 2018 films 2018 drama films French drama films 2010s French-language films 2010s French films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Queen Of Scots (2013 Film)
''Mary Queen of Scots'' is a 2013 Swiss period drama directed by Thomas Imbach. It is his first film in the English and French languages, starring the bilingual French actress Camille Rutherford. The film portrays the inner life of Mary, the Queen of Scotland. The film is based on the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig's 1935 biography, ''Mary Stuart'', a long-term bestseller in Germany and France but out of print in the UK and the US for decades until 2010. The film was first screened at the 2013 International Film Festival Locarno and was later shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Mary, Queen of Scots, awaits her execution by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Mary composes a letter to Elizabeth, to whom she feels a close kinship as her cousin and a fellow female monarch. Through flashback, Mary narrates to Elizabeth the events of her life, starting from her birth in Scotland to the French Mary of Guise, who sends her to France as a child for her p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galloping Mind
The canter and gallop are variations on the fastest gait that can be performed by a horse or other equine. The canter is a controlled three-beat gait, while the gallop is a faster, four-beat variation of the same gait. It is a natural gait possessed by all horses, faster than most horses' trot, or ambling gaits. The gallop is the fastest gait of the horse, averaging about . The speed of the canter varies between depending on the length of the horse's stride. A variation of the canter, seen in western riding, is called a lope, and is generally quite slow, no more than . Etymology Since the earliest dictionaries there has been a commonly agreed suggestion that the origin of the word "canter" comes from the English city of Canterbury, a place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages, as referred to in ''The Canterbury Tales'', where the comfortable speed for a pilgrim travelling some distance on horseback was above that of a trot but below that of a gallop. However a lack of com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Fiennes
Sophia Victoria Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 12 February 1967), better known as Sophie Fiennes, is an English film director and producer. She is the sister of actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes, director Martha Fiennes and composer Magnus Fiennes. Career Fiennes managed the UK based dance company ''The Michael Clark Company'' from 1992 to 1994 and began making her own films in 1998. With Peter Greenaway she worked on films and TV projects including '' Drowning by Numbers'', '' The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' and ''Prospero's Books''. Films ''Show and Tell'' Made for ZDF/Arte is about Les Ballets C. de la B.'s dance performance VSPRS. A the dimensions of ecstasy and trauma that form the core of the performance are captured, whilst interviews with Platel and the dancers themselves are also included. ''The Pervert's Guide to Cinema'' Fiennes' documentary '' The Pervert's Guide to Cinema'', is written and presented by the philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
