the red heritage - ARTISTS & THE SOCIALIST PAST

DE | 2019 | 4x26' | 4K | English (sub.), German, French to be bought to ARTE sales | By Claudia Kuhland, Susanna Schürmann, Cordula Echterhoff | DreamTeam Medienproduktion | Broadcasters: ARTE, MDR.

 

This series questions the communist legacy through contemporary arts in Germany, Russia, Lithuania and Bulgaria (one episode per country). The relationship of contemporary artists with the communist era highlights a true ambivalence towards the soviet past.

MOVING LIBRARIES
WHERE BOOKS MEAN THE WORLD

DE | 2019 | 5x26' | 4K | English (sub.), German (sub. or voice-over), French (sub.), for Columbia episode Spanish (sub.); for Italy episode Italian (sub.), French version with voice-over to be bought to ARTE | By Michael Bernstein & Anja Schürenberg | Bernsteinfilm | Broadcasters: ARTE, BR, RTBF 

 

Original mobile libraries are run by unusual operators by roller bee, garbage truck, in bags, by bike or ship in order to find their readers, whether they are children in the slums of Bhopal in India, homeless people in Portland, USA or simply those for whom the next book is simply too far away. We get to know the motives of these mobile librarians as they take us into the colorful everyday world of readers in India, Italy, the Caribbean, Columbia and Portland, USA.

THE ANTAGONISTS: RIVALRY IN ART

DE | 2017 | 2x52' | HD | German, French (sub.), English (sub.), Spanish | By Andreas Gräfenstein, Sylvie Kürsten & Henrike Sandner | 3B-Produktion | Broadcasters: ZDF/ARTE

 

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Most significant developments in art history often result from the fierce competition between genius masters. In this series, we discover the fruitful rivalries between renowned artists: Caravaggio versus Giovanni Baglione and Joseph Turner versus John Constable. 

 

 

 

 

Turner vs Constable
Contemporary painters William Turner and John Constable, the two greatest English landscape designers of the Romantic period, have revolutionized the look on nature.

 

Caravaggio vs Baglione
In Rome, in 1603, Caravaggio and Giovanni Baglione clashed in court, after having challenged themselves artistically: an episode that illustrates the quarrelsome atmosphere of the time.