Gombessa Expedition 4 Laurent Ballesta went to observe a gathering of thousands of groupers during the full moon of June 2014 (Le mystère...
700 Sharks
Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects of hunting and fishing. But signs in ice’s...
Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor
In 1972, the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali celebrated the funeral of Anaï Dolo, head of the Bongo Masks Society, who died at the age of...
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
Ces microbes qui nous gouvernent
Close and daily, sometimes comical but often tragic, sleepiness takes an important place in our lives. Suddenly falling asleep, sometimes with their...
Somnolence
Pythéas, l'astronome voyageur
A seven-day initiation ceremony is documented in which two women undergo ritual healing following a diagnosis of spirit possession, presented without...
Horendi
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Mémoires enfouies
Éthiopie, le mystère des mégalithes
The discovery of an ancient music score in the Louvre sets researchers on a mission to recreate the music as it was originally heard by the Greeks...
Discovering the Music of Antiquity
In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic...
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
When a huge meteorite crashed into the earth 66 million years ago and caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs, some of the planet’s tiniest...
The Mysteries of the Giants
In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then translates for her a conversation she has with a...
Germaine et ses copains
Le phare d'Alexandrie : Les derniers secrets
Dark matter fills the cosmos, and yet its identity is still unknown. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest find out what it...
The Mystery of Dark Matter
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard,...
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls...
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of...
Germaine chez elle
Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of...
Chambord: The Castle, the King and the Architect