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Ernst Beyeler had been dealing in art since 1947. Over the years he assembled an impressive collection, shown to the public at the Fondation Beyeler. Beyeler lets us in on the twists and turns of dealing with works by some of the greatest figures in modern art, and shows us pictures in his collectio...

French artist Daniel Buren is the creator of hundreds of installations that have marked the landscape of contemporary art. He has now conceived a unique work to occupy, for an entire month’s time, the central empty space of the Guggenheim Museum. But no matter how spectacular it may be, this work – ...

Joachim Kühn is a renowned contemporary jazz pianist. Following him throughout the recording of his latest album “Universal Time” in New York and Avignon, the director’s long friendship with this very private artist enables her to portray a free man, who lives and breathes by his music....

The film shot in the financial place of The City, focuses on several Londoners from various social classes during the 2008 economic crisis. From a high-end hedge fund manager to a spiritually oriented street sweeper seeking peace, Isaacs fluidly balances sensitive portraits of people striving to fin...

In June 1946 Michel Sima, sculptor and photographer, met with Picasso in Antibes. On Picasso’s request, Sima photographed his work in progress in the workshop he’d found for him at Grimaldi Palace, on a daily basis. The work of both these artists, the human experience and their friendship eventuall...

In 1906 Dr Morgenthaler, a psychiatrist at Bern Psychiatric Hospital, started to collect and photograph the drawings, paintings and various objects designed by his patients. This collection of works by schizophrenic artists would later prove to be a crucial link in the chain, which has inspired mode...

ROJEK encounters members of the Islamic State, women and men detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) throug...

In the south of France, the Chauvet Cave contains the earliest known and best preserved figurative cave paintings in the world. To preserve the cave, a reproduction opened to the public was built near the original one. How did this realization come about? Technicians, scenographers, architects, scul...

A portrait of major contemporary artist Miquel Barceló through his process of creation, always on the spot, outside the workshop and for an ephemeral life....

The paintings and drawings of the Chauvet cave – made thirty six thousand years ago and discovered twenty years ago in the south of France – are the oldest human artistic expression to date. Their strength and modernity changed radically all the ideas we had on prehistorical art. The creation of an ...