Catalogue des films de « Mark Kidel »

À Taïwan, la passion pour la musique classique prend de multiples formes : un enseignement de haut niveau, de nombreux orchestres philharmoniques, des interprètes virtuoses, des collections d’instruments uniques au monde, un public fervent....

The writer Martin Amis is known for acerbic and penetrating novels that dissect the contemporary world. In this image-rich film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Kidel, Amis explores his sense of what it is to be English. Amis...

Fabienne Verdier (born in 1962) does not adhere to trends in contemporary art. After studying at the École des Beaux-arts in Toulouse, she spent 10 years in China under epic conditions and was introduced to Chinese calligraphy and painting. Her...

John Adams is generally believed to be America’s greatest living composer. He is the most American of composers, reflecting the country’s diverse cultures as well as its rich and complex musical history. This portrait of the artist by Mark...

La famille Wallfisch, ce sont trois générations d'artistes qui consacrent leur vie à la musique et qui, d'une certaine manière, lui doivent leur vie. La "matriarche" a 83 ans : violoncelliste, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch compte parmi les dernières...

Léon Fleisher is one of the greatest pianists of our time. For a major part of his life he was unable to use his right hand, and the tragic circumstances in which this injury cut short a brilliant career and led to his rebirth as one of the...

Santa Fé, Los Angeles, Venise, Vienne... Pendant plus de deux ans, la caméra de Mark Kidel a suivi et filmé Peter Sellars, l’"enfant terrible" et surdoué de la mise en scène d’opéra. De sa fascination dès l’adolescence pour les...

This film tells the heroic story of a distinguished British viola-player, Rosemary Nalden, who founded a music school in the black township of Soweto, enabling kids to transcend the constraints of their environment, and find hope through creative...

The Henri Oguike Dance Company is one of the most exciting and widely-acclaimed contemporary dance companies in the UK. Henri Oguike’s choreography has been praised for its combination of artistic originality, musical sophistication, and...

The 50th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising of autumn 1956 had been celebrated in autumn 2006. The Hungarian revolution, although it failed and was savagely repressed by the Soviets, marked a crucial moment in the history of the Soviet...