已故知名电影配乐师约翰·约翰逊执导、蒂尔达·斯文顿旁白的纪录片《Last and First Men》入围今年#柏林电影节#特别展映单元。
影片聚焦铁托时期南斯拉夫多留下的巨大建筑“Spomeniks”，体现了独特而复杂的美学和文化涵义。约翰逊和摄影师Sturla Brandt Grøvlen一起去到当地，在拂晓或黄昏时间，以天空为背景、黑白画面拍摄展现建筑的样子。
一生中，你的最终目标是什么？千万分之一的人回答说：“觉悟”。而其他人，则答以成功、财富、权力等。影片《万物一体》（UNITY）通过对生命的各种诠释，献给所有追求更深刻的生存意义、谋求与他人和谐相处之道的人们。想象一下这样一个世界，它不依存于对立面（我们/他们、富贵/贫穷、黑/白、同性恋/异性恋、人类/动物），而是以追求完整存在。《万物一体》（UNITY）呈现的是我们完全平等的世界观，即使我们不尽相同：人类、动物、树木。
《万物一体》（UNITY）是由导演尚恩•莫森（Nation Earth创立者）在过去五年间编写和拍摄的一部影片，它将于2012年公映。影片包括以下六个部分：肉体、精神、内心、灵魂、伴以序幕及尾声。
影片集中于探讨人性的冷漠与共鸣倾向。尚恩形容道，《万物一体》是一部有关对立物的影片，或者也可以说，“为什么尽管我们都有着宗教信仰（世界上88%的地区存在宗教信仰）、自助书籍、十二步治疗方案甚至哲学及科技，却还觉察出彼此间的对立。”
《万物一体》所呈现的将是日常生活画面的错综拼接，喜忧参半。影片充满了喜悦、惊奇、悲伤和成熟。与尚恩的上一部影片《地球公民》（Earthlings）相同，这部影片再一次通过糅合前所未有的美景与令人心碎的悲剧，试图将观众引往新奇和有趣的场景。尽管是一部警示纪录片，但影片也希望比之先前，将恩惠、哲理及意识传播给更多人。
对于影片《地球公民》，上网搜索便知，它凭借其最富想象力的描述和纪录片从未有过的殊荣，尤其是所述主题之难度，一跃成为纪录片史上的焦点之一。尽管2005年首次发行时，该片完全不被发行商看好，但它对其后探讨相同主题的纪录片有着无可置疑的影响，这其中就包括三部由HBO发行的影片：2006年的《虐狗丑闻》（DEALING DOGS ,2006）、2007年的《我是动物》（I AM AN ANIMAL ,2007）、2009年的《工业农场大屠杀》（DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM ,2009），以及两部获得2010年奥斯卡金像奖提名的影片：《食品公司》（FOOD INC.）、荣获最佳纪录片奖的《海豚湾》（THE COVE）。
《万物一体》继续着《地球公民》未完的路，它探索了人类彼此之间的二元关系，而非人与动物的关系。因此，我们希望借这部影片展现冷漠与共鸣之间的主要差别，让观影者明白：我们，不论是人类、动物或者树木，均源自共同的根，那就是——地球。
A witty, exhilarating and mind-expanding exploration of the word of our times - data - with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four's previous gleefully nerdy, award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats, Tails you Win - The Science of Chance and The Joy of Logic, this new high-tech romp reveals exactly what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry also tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.
For Hannah Fry, the joy of data is all about spotting patterns. She's Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at UCL as well as being the presenter of the BBC series Trainspotting Live and City in the Sky, and she sees data as the essential bridge between two universes - the tangible, noisy, messy world that we see and experience, and the clean, ordered, elegant world of maths, where everything can be captured beautifully with equations.
Along the way the film reveals the connection between Scrabble scores and online movie streaming, explains why a herd of Wiltshire dairy cows are wearing pedometers, and uncovers the remarkable network map of Wikipedia. What's the mystery link between 'marmalade' and 'One Direction'?
The Joy of Data also hails the giant contribution of Claude Shannon, the American mathematician and electrical engineer who, in an attempt to solve the problem of noisy telephone lines, devised a way to digitise all information. It was Shannon, father of the 'bit', who singlehandedly launched the 'information age'. Meanwhile, the green lawns of Britain's National Physical Laboratory host a race between its young apprentices in order to demonstrate how and why data moves quickly and successfully around modern data networks. It's all thanks to the brilliant technique first invented there in the 1960s by Welshman Donald Davies - packet switching - without which there would be no internet as we know it.
But what of the future, big data and artificial intelligence? Should we be worried by the pace of change, and what our own data could and should be used for? Ultimately, Fry concludes, data has empowered all of us. We must have machines at our side if we're to find patterns in the modern-day data deluge. But, Fry believes, regardless of AI and machine learning, it will always take us to find the meaning in them.
In a shelter, staff and volunteers work together to welcome animals in need. The mental states of the animals and human beings are profoundly connected, and the aggressive dogs or nervous cats are often hiding a painful past. This observational documentary tenderly recounts the commitment of a passionate team.
Aïlo: an odyssey in Lapland tells the fight for the survival of a small wild reindeer, frail and vulnerable to the challenges that punctuate his first year. qiwan.cc Its awakening to the wild world is a real tale in the heart of the grandiose landscapes of Lapland.
