Kaleidoscope
Looking at life frames
A
television collection of 33 x 26 minutes
developed by Rogier van Eck & Marc-Henri Wajnberg
33
x 26 MIN
BETA DIGITAL (16/9 & 4/3)
Original
version available
with French or English commentary
documentary – lifestyle – environment –
art – culture
– society – history –nature
– work – everyday life
«Of
course there will always be walls, streets, furniture, things and people…
Of course we build, we break, we move and we start again, here just as
everywhere else… Yet however, here or elsewhere, it is not the same.
Here it’s our place and there it’s their place.
All of us do our own thing according to our culture and our past.To look
at one’s surroundings – that has to be learnt too.
For this lesson here, a kaleidoscope, can be very mischievous : it cuts
the most ordinary places into slices of life,
it reveals these glimpsed slivers and that makes the individuals shine.
Neighbourhoods, shopping malls, factories, on board a liner, in a polar
village or in a hospital,
on an industrial wasteland or at a tourist site everyone thinks about
his world and organises his space. That is how man lives.»
SYNOPSIS
Kaleidoscope is a 26-minute collection, which aims to make us aware
of our daily environments. It tells their stories and their continual
changes.
In each episode, Kaleidoscope chooses an unusual site, public or private,
in Europe or elsewhere and describes it in a succession of fragmented
glances: the people who live and work there, their activities, their current
projects, historical traces which keep reappearing...
Encounters and conversations with the actors and the observers of this
locale punctuate this approach.
To “illustrate” each site, the collection:
1• tells its story,
2• meets the inhabitants,
3• meets an artist or a craftsman who lives there and shows his works.
These three chapters help to draw a living and yet multi faceted portrait
of each location and its inhabitants. It is precisely this which the plural
of the title underlines : looking at life frames.
Our guide is a cheerful, playful little man, set into the image, “Mr.
Kaleidoscope”, who introduces and who marks (opens and closes) each
subject.
From episode to episode, Kaleidoscope takes us travelling across the world
and recounts the variations in our lifestyles. Thus, we will move from
a liner to a factory, from a gentrified neighbourhood to a school, to
the development of industrial wasteland to the rehabilitation of a village.
To date, 33 episodes of 26 minutes have been produced and have been broadcasted
by ARTE (France and Germany), ARTV, MULTICANAL, RTBF as well as by the
Chinese, Israelian and Bosnian television channels.
The 33 episodes in
the Kaleidoscope collection are the following:
1. « Galeries Royales
Saint-Hubert, Brussels, Belgium » Directed by Marc-Henri
Wajnberg
2. « The Cruiseliner
'SS Norway', USA & Caribbean » Directed by Marc-Henri
Wajnberg
3. « Ibiza island, Spain
» Directed by Rogier van Eck
4.
« Emscher Park, Ruhr, Germany » Directed by Rogier
van Eck
5. « Longyearbyen, Spitzberg,
Norway » Directed by Gerry Meaudre
6. « Bretonneau
Hospital , Paris,
France » Directed by Gerry Meaudre
7.
« The Gasometers of Vienna, Austria » Directed by
Paul-Jean Vranken
8.
« Tiergarten, Berlin,
Germany»
Directed by Marta
Bergman
9.
« The
Hakka Farms, Fujian,
China » Directed
by Gerry Meaudre
10. « Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, Spain »
Directed by Rogier van Eck
11. « Christiania,
Copenhagen,
Danemark » Directed
by Gerry Meaudre
12.
« Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dolomites, Italy » Directed
by Madeleine Caillard
13.
« The penitentiary centre in Overloon, Netherlands »
directed by Rob Rombout
14. « Babelsberg
Studios, Germany » Directed by Manu Riche
& Dominique Guerrier
15. « The
thermal baths of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic »
Directed by Peter Krüger
16. « Americano
Togni Circus, Italy » Directed by Gerry
Meaudre
17. « The
allotments at Rouxmesnil, Dieppe, France »
Directed by Peter Brosens
18. «
“Grand Hotel Europe”, St. Petersburg, Russia »
Directed by Rogier van Eck
19. « “Le
Merisier” refugee centre, Fraipont, Belgium »
Directed by Dominique Guerrier
20. « The
Indian community of Lake-Simon, Canada »
Directed by Alain de Halleux
21. « Denpasar
Market, Bali, Indonesia » Directed by
Marc-Henri Wajnberg
22. « The
Monastery of Benediktbeuern, Germany »
Directed by Peter Krüger
23. « The
Oasis of Ksar Ghilane, Tunisia » Directed
by Dominique Guerrier
24. « The Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland
» Directed by Rob Rombout
25. « The
cave-dwellers of Gšreme, Turkey » Directed
by Peter Brosens
26. «
The "Cité Radieuse" of Le Corbusier, Marseille, France
» Directed by Benoît van Wambeke
27. « La
Baraque neighbourhood, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium »
Directed by Micha Wald
28. «
Inishmaan island, Aran, Irlande » Directed
by Marie Mandy
29. « The
college of Brackenhurst (NTU), United Kingdom »
Directed by Anne Levy Morelle
30. « The
Military Academy of Lisboa, Portugal »
Directed by Dominique Guerrier
31. « The
Kibbutz of Mishmar-Haemek, Israel » Directed
by Gerry Meaudre
32. « Transsiberian,
Moscow-Vladivostok, Russia » Directed
by Rogier van Eck
33. « Bollywood-Bombay,
Mumbai, India » Directed by Marc-Henri
Wajnberg
INTERNATIONAL
DISTRIBUTION
Wajnbrosse
Productions
Video cassette available on request : Contact
us
PRODUCTION
ARTE France
Panic Productions
Wajnbrosse Productions
With
the support of:
Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) ,
Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique
et des Télédistributeurs Wallons
Programme MEDIA de l'Union Européenne
PROCIREP
