The Cultural History of Museums

The Cultural History of Museums 2022

4.00

From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums that analyzes the social and political changes that have taken place over the centuries.

2022

Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual

Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual 2020

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Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a music-induced trance and dance on bonfires in a display of religious passion.

2020

Battlefield Gender

Battlefield Gender 2019

7.00

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artistic depiction of violence throughout history and the ways in which that depiction has been gendered.

2019

Wenn die Liebe fremdgeht

Wenn die Liebe fremdgeht 2021

4.00

Infidelity is a taboo as old as the hills. This documentary explores its philosophical and psychological aspects by questioning libertines, victims of infidelity, psychologists and couple therapists.

2021

Special Action 1005

Special Action 1005 2022

8.00

No one really knows the exact details of Special Action 1005. How many people were killed by the Nazis in the rear of the Eastern Front between 1942 and 1944? There were at least tens of thousands. This is the story of how the criminals covered up the traces of their clumsy and savage crimes.

2022

DJ Punk: The Photographer Daniel Josefsohn

DJ Punk: The Photographer Daniel Josefsohn 2018

6.00

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark in advertising with his irreverent aesthetic and punk sensibility. It was his spontaneous, imperfect images shot for an MTV campaign in 1994 that first made him famous.

2018