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Chronicle of a year in the Belleville park in Paris, where the art of a gardener/philosopher invites the diverse population of this neighborhood to reclaim public space. An opportunity, perhaps, to collectively reinvent a more harmonious way of living together...
I have always wanted to explore inaccessible and dangerous places. As a child, I dreamed of going to space. I often heard that it was a man's job, that I shouldn't dream. I refused this determinism, became an aerospace engineer, built rockets, applied to be an astronaut, started training, and was rejected.
Symbol of species extinction, the dinosaur abruptly gave way to less powerful animals that were better adapted to a new ecosystem.
The transformation of the ocean depths through the journey and perspective of a little clownfish…
More than three thousand insects appear in this film in a single sequence…
A dive into matter through real images from electron microscopy.
In a world governed and timed by light, an ordinary man devises a plan that could change the normal course of events.
The true story of the universe, the world, and mankind. How, why, and where are we going?
Scientists filmed the growth of silver crystals under a microscope. They have the unique characteristic of resembling Christmas trees.
Video creation workshop designed and led by filmmaker Boris NICOT as part of the Cinésciences workshops offered by the Polly Maggoo association, in collaboration with 10th-grade students from Périer High School (Marseille) and archaeologists from the Camille Jullian Mediterranean Archaeology Center in Aix-en-Provence (MMSH).
Discovering the National Library, a true vault and museum of words where readings, precious and rare works, knowledge, catalogs, and book collections form a "memory of the world."
The film starts with the Origins and then travels through the world of trees and the trees of the world.
A documentary and musical essay based on a diary found by chance: the year 1968 of an old bachelor, living in Montreuil, working at the National Geographic Institute. Between television and muffled echoes of a revolt, a reflection on order and disorder.
The Shadoks, to perfect their education, turn to mathematics with Professor Shadoko, who speaks in a purely Shadokian logic!
Since Democritus, the knowledge of the ultimate constituents of matter has always been at the heart of philosophers' and scientists' concerns. From Fermilab in the United States to CERN in Geneva, passing through the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, the director conducts an investigation into the origins and stakes of this research.
A film made as part of the Cinésciences workshops offered by the Polly Maggoo association in collaboration with St Vincent de Paul High School (Marseille). It was created by the 3rd-year professional discovery students, guided by filmmaker Pilar Arcila and in collaboration with physicist Ricardo Lima.
This film highlights the imbalance of things through an accumulation of catastrophes, captured in a chain reaction. Objects slide, roll, fall, or catch fire over a distance of approximately forty meters in an industrial hall.
The film takes place on a November day in 1986, when Opalka painted the number 4,000,000 on one of his canvases. It offers an insight into the world of a contemporary artist whose work is a symbolic representation of time.
With mysterious gestures, a woman records the temperature and wind speed under extreme conditions. Day after day, influenced by the weather and the seasons, this magnificent scenery reveals itself in new ways. A contemplative film that invites us, not without humor, into a true visual and auditory experience.
For those who have always wanted to know everything about black holes but never dared to ask...
How do scientists imagine reality from elements that seem minute and unreadable? The archaeozoologist: their specialty is studying animal remains to understand their relationship with humans!
In 1965, famed animator Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation/Visual Arts studio adapted "The Dot and the Line" intoa 10-minute animated short film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, narrated by Robert Morley. "The Dot and the Line" won the1965 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Five years later, Jones turned another Juster book into an animatedfeature film, "The Phantom Tollbooth".
This is the anguished tale of a sensible straight line who falls in love with a dot. The dot, however, finding the line stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle. Though dejected, the line was notwithout determination, and, after much concentration, managed to bend himself, giving rise to shapes so complex hehad to letter his sides and angles to keep his place. Before long he was able to express himself in any shape hewished, from helices to spider webs to Paul Klee's little jester. Overwhelmed by the line's geometric contortionisticprowess, the dot realized that what she had seen in the squiggle to be freedom and joy was nothing more than chaosand sloth.Thence, the line and the dot lived "if not happily ever after, at least reasonably so." The story ends with apunning moral: "To the vector belong the spoils."