Human beings are the kings of all animals, at least if you ask us humans. Our vanity is given something to mirror itself in, but does not escape without a scratch or two in this documentary, which observes a taxidermist, a deer farmer and a museum curator at work. Three jobs that have one thing in common: turning animals into aesthetic objects, alive as well as dead. When the work is done properly, it is impossible to tell the difference. Dead pets are mummified. At the zoological museum, the animals' glassy eyes stare back at us from the showcases. Even a plastic alligator has its natural place in the human master plan.
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. ...
Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in ce...
Some of them move. Others make noise. One weighs in at 700 pounds. Collectively, they represent the ...
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely ...
As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...
Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008, guides viewers...
"The Last Dragon" is a nature mockumentary about a British scientific team that attempts to understa...
Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim...
Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli ...
The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.
In this follow-up to his 2003 film, Totem: the Return of the G'psgolox Pole, filmmaker Gil Cardinal ...
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their ...
This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a me...
Follows a trail of over 10 museums and 150 artworks amongst the most well-known in the world. It is ...
From the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence to Dorothy's ruby slippers, t...
A mechanic discovers the fossil of a huge carnivorous dinosaur, unleashing a war between scientists,...
Research and dissemination documentary-film about contemporary art in which more than 30 staff membe...
The grand opening dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Histo...
Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey ...