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Film & Video
The video "Waggle Dance" has emerged within the project "Beehive. Tradition and Contemporary Art" of the Gallery of Matica srpska in 2016. The Gallery has invited contemporary artists to interpret its symbol – the beehive. Igor Antić is one of the artists who interpreted the symbol through the medium of video. Scientist Karl von Frisch discovered in 1919 that bees possess a specific communication system based on movement, visual benchmarks, smell and sound. He called it the "Waggle Dance". Years later, a German-Danish team of researchers was able to construct a micro-robot that faithfully reproduces bee vibration and movement, which is also able to create new, quirky bee dances. Thus, …
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Film & Video
The submitted project ‘From Marsh to Modern Living’ is one of the key exhibits of the recently opened Museum Hoge Woerd. It offers a stunning experience of the ‘biography’ of the Leidsche Rijn area, a recent town development of the City of Utrecht. The 360° panoramic movie starts about 3,000 years ago, when prehistoric farmer-gathererss deposited a red deer antler in a riverbed. Time accelerates and then pauses again as the visitor witnesses an Iron Age midwinter fest, and the emergence of the Roman frontier along the river Rhine. Dramatic changes of scenery occur as we witness the main periods of human occupation: prosperous farmers in the Early Middle Ages, the construction of castles in …
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Film & Video
By the late First Century BC, the end of peninsular wars and the Roman administrative organization made Conimbriga the center of a vast territory, which encompassed the area between the rivers Mondego and Arunca in Portugal. This centrality attracts people with new lifestyles and knowledge that boost an unprecedented progress. The new roman order provided a broad network of opportunities and successes for the local people, allowing the natives success, wealth and power.
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Film & Video
Museums are the reflection of life. They do not only inform their visitors with various visual and sensual objects but they also provide their visitors the opportunity to experience different cultures, time and locations. When people visit museums they find the chance to experience a different time, a different way of life, different practices and to better understand their own life. Reviving Museums is a short movie that both promotes the museums of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality at one hand and at the other hand tells us how powerful museums are in reviving experiences of others. In the movie the museums revive and provide a great time to the visitors as they experience different …
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Film & Video
Sarah Bernhardt was the single most influential figure in Mucha’s life as an artist. Narrated by an interview with Tamsin Omond, Alphonse Mucha’s great-grand-daughter, this dynamic short film explores Mucha’s relationship with Bernhardt and the influence that she had upon his life as an artist.
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Film & Video
Although many of us will not know Mucha by name, we are familiar with his images - generations of people are familiar with his distinctive imagery through years of exposure in popular culture. Narrated by interviews with Tomoko Sato (Mucha Foundation curator), contemporary tattoo artist Aimee Cornwell and curator Pippa Stephenson – this beautiful film explores and examines the enduring appeal and pervasiveness of Alphonse Mucha’s art and imagery.
