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Stories of extraordinary lives and extraordinary lands across the globe.

Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Lands

GEO Reportage

In 2018, contemporary circus company Recirquel embarked on a European tour with a striking show, My Land, created and performed by seven young Ukrainian performers. In a succession of tableaux imbued mixing dance, acrobatics and juggling, the artists deliver a powerful reflection on their relationship with their native land. But the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when they were on tour in France, gave their work new meaning. ARTE meets the performers of this remarkable show about one’s homeland and sense of belonging.

Ukrainian Artists on Art and War

ARTE meets the Recirquel contemporary circus company as they perform My Land, a work created and performed by seven young Ukrainians.

My Land

Elizabeth II's death is a turning point. Many Britons and people around the world are saying goodbye to her. Between mourning and new beginnings, one question is on everyone's mind: what does the end of the Elizabethan era mean for the monarchy and for the British people?

The UK in Transition

Re: A Land without a Queen

Frank Benford observed that the number one seems to pop up a lot in both in the supermarket and on tax bills. In understanding this law, it helps to simply look at the world from a different perspective.

Benford's Law

Frank Benford observed that the number one seems to pop up a lot in both in the supermarket and on tax bills

The Land of Mathematics

In My Land, the innovative Hungarian company Recirquel mixes circus and contemporary dance. Through powerful choreographic tableaux and striking acrobatics, seven artists from Ukraine evoke the intimate ties that bind them to their native land. In the present context, this piece takes on a new meaning, as acrobat Yevheniia Obolonina says: For although My Land was originally a love story, it now expresses a love of Ukraine. Premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018, this striking work has sold out in performances worldwide.

Recirquel

Through powerful choreography and striking acrobatics, seven artists from Ukraine evoke the intimate ties that bind them to their native land.

The self-proclaimed Republic of the Donbas, a Ukrainian region bordering Russia, is governed by warlords. ARTE visited this separatist region in 2015 to film this reportage.

Donbas: Land of the Separatists

Arte Reportage

Around three hundred Jamaican Rastafarians live in Shashamane in Ethiopia, in what is their promised land. A visit to this closed world where non-Rastas rarely enter.

Ethiopia: Rastafarian Promised Land

Around three hundred Jamaican Rastafarians live in Shashamane in Ethiopia, in what is their promised land.

ARTE Reportage

A focus on the world’s largest country by landmass. Russia is a major world power that excels in certain spheres but glaring inequality, major structural problems and Western sanctions mean it may struggle to keep up with other world powers.

Russia: Land of Contrasts

Mapping the World

The distribution of prime numbers is still a mystery. Riemann developed a hypothesis considered valid but still not proven. Buckle up, it's a long journey ahead...

Prime Numbers and the Rieman Hypothesis

The distribution of prime numbers is still a mystery

We have known for a long time that some equations can't be solved as the answers are numbers that don't exist. Fortunately, a slew of mathematicians have uncovered a new field of numbers that now play a vital role in modern mathematics.

A Complex Picnic

We have known for a long time that some equations can't be solved as the answers are numbers that don't exist

Polished axes from the Neolithic period were the tools used for perhaps the biggest change that man has brought about on Earth: the clearing of the land for agriculture.

Stone Age Axes - Clearing the Land

Making History

25 centuries ago, the well-ordered world of natural integers and fractions had to expand to accommodate monsters like pi and √2. It's a dizzying mathematical expedition where we will realise that real life numbers are only the tip of the iceberg.

Irrationality

25 centuries ago, the well-ordered world of natural integers and fractions had to expand to accommodate monsters like pi and √2

In October 1970 Scientific American magazine introduced a game under the heading "Mathematical Games" that quickly became a cult classic. The idea behind John Conway's “Game of Life” is cellular automaton. The game's creator hoped to help with the understanding, simulating or even recreation of life itself

The Game of Life

In October 1970 Scientific American magazine introduced a game under the heading "Mathematical Games" that quickly became a cult classic

In this episode, we look at the relationship between maths and truth. Maths is meant to be certain, either right or wrong. Turns out, it's not that simple. For Gödel's theorem has proved that there are "undecidable" theories, which one can neither prove nor disprove. 

Gödel's Theorem

Maths is meant to be certain, either right or wrong. Turns out, it's not that simple...

Two prisoners must choose between cooperation and betrayal without consulting each other. This famous prisoner's dilemma that will take us to the heart of game theory. We think mathematically about a very philosophical question: is it in our interest to collaborate with others?

The Prisoner's Dilemma

We think mathematically about a very philosophical question: is it in our interest to collaborate with others?

In this episode of our travels in the land of maths, we are heading towards Infinity. And even beyond, because infinity comes in many sizes. That may seem strange, but Georg Kantor and his set theory will help us come to terms with this maths concept of dizzying scale.

On the Road to Infinity

In this episode of our travels in the land of maths, we are heading towards Infinity

A circle is also a triangle and a triangle is a square. Sound impossible? Not in the realm of topology, which even applies to 3-dimensional spaces and anything from donuts, UFOs and potatoes. The discipline's inventor, Henri Poincaré, created one of the most difficult problems in mathematics.

To Infinity, and Beyond

A circle is also a triangle and a triangle is a square. Sound impossible? Not in the realm of topology

Speed is such a common term that it's easy to forget how much of a role maths plays in understanding it. Until three or four centuries ago, there was no speed at all. It was only since the Renaissance that the concept of movement crept into the world of mathematics, thanks to calculus and Isaac Newton.

Newton and the Infinitesimal Calculation

Speed is such a common term that it's easy to forget how much of a role maths plays in understanding it

Twenty years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan. But without them, Afghan security forces fear they'll struggle to contain the advance of the insurgents. Terror attacks are on the rise, and the group is said to already control nearly half the country. The return to power of the fundamentalists seems inevitable.

Afghanistan: The Land of the Taliban

The last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan, leading to fears of a Taliban resurgence

Photographer, Matthew Christopher loves taking pictures of abandoned spaces - but he doesn't ever trespass. He works with local communities to highlight their forgotten, endangered heritage. These forgotten buildings also represent the forgotten communities that once relied on these buildings to provide them with healthcare, shelter or jobs.

USA: Abandoned Spaces

Photographer, Matthew Christopher works with local communities to highlight their forgotten, endangered heritage

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