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Kolektywy: koniec egotripu w sztuce?

Artist Collectives - The Ego Trip is Finished!

Collettivi artistici: la fine dell'Ego?

El fin del "ego trip": ¡llegan los colectivos!

The solitary genius in art has long been venerated. But no longer. Make way for the artist collectives that are reimagining the art world and the role of the artist.  

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Artists explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence. How do complex algorithms affect our interactions? And are machines capable of creativity?

AI: Can Machines Be Creative?

Since the Taliban took over Kabul, many thousands have tried to flee the city. Amongst them are figures from the art world some of whom are now in exile while others are stuck in Afghanistan. They are asking the West not to forget them. Twist gives them a voice.

Afghan artists are asking the West not to forget them. Twist answers their call.

Artists of Afghanistan

How are artists and cultural institutions responding to the climate emergency? What are they doing to become "greener"? Twist goes to Dresden, a city which has launched its pilot project "Culture for Future" to explore ways in which culture can address sustainable issues.

How are artists and cultural institutions responding to the climate emergency?

Go Green: Culture and Climate

The body has been a central motif in art for centuries. What place does it have in the digital world? We pop to Vienna for a choreographic performance, in Munich for the exhibition of the sculptor Alexandra Bircken, and finally in Denmark for a shoot where Spencer Tunick photographs a naked crowd.

The body has been a central motif in art for centuries. What place does it have in the digital world?

The Body and Art

With Estonia celebrating 30 years of independence this year, TWIST goes to Tallinn to discover the city’s cultural scene. Featuring writer Sofi Oksanen, artists Flo Kasearu and Timo Toots, the Estonian Voices ensemble and rapper Tommy Cash

With Estonia celebrating 30 years of independence this year, TWIST goes to Tallinn to discover the city’s cultural scene.

Estonia: Young, Digital, Provocative

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This documentary tells the story of German Expressionism in the context of colonial exploitation for the first time. When German artists Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein travelled to what was then the colony of German New Guinea and the Palau Islands in 1910, they wanted to revolutionise painting through inspiration from indigenous art and peoples. But their "South Sea paradise" had already been destroyed by the European colonial masters and their art would reveal the ideals and prejudice of early twentieth century Europe.

Expressionism and Colonialism

This documentary tells the story of German Expressionist art for the first time in the context of colonial exploitation. 

The White Gaze

Gaming isn't all fun and games; there's an ideology and a world view behind each game. Trinity notes, as she plays her favourite games with political scientist Oliver Mauco, how often the protagonists are white men defending America from a foreign enemy. They then move on to Gal*Gun, and discuss the model of submissive femininity that it portrays. What if gaming was politics?

Art of Gaming

Gaming isn't all fun and games; there's an ideology and a world view behind each game

Ideology

In 1970, the festival was interrupted after the screening of the film by Michael Verhoeven, OK, a parable about the Vietnam War. 16 years later, controversy reignites over the film Stammheim. When the film received the Golden Bear, the president, Gina Lollobrigida, immediately declared: "I was against this film." In 1976, people got flustered over Realm of the Senses, by the great Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, over accusations that it was pornography. 

70 Years of the Berlinale

The Berinale has had its fair share of drama throughout the years

Scandal!

A look at the tormented life of Clara Haskil (1895-1960), and the dazzling purity and fluidity of her unique sound. Her 10 year professional career was short but disproportionately influential.

The Magic of Interpretation

A look at the tormented life of Clara Haskil (1895-1960)

Clara Haskil

An author once described this work as a portrait of a woman done by a painter who had forgotten to paint the feet, legs, thighs, stomach, hips, chest, hands, arms, shoulders, neck and head. 

Look but Don't Touch

The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet

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Faced with more frequent and violent natural disasters caused by climate change, animals and plants are adapting. Some species, such as sharks, which are able to sense the change in atmospheric pressure of a coming hurricane, move away from danger. Others learn to live with it, such as curlews, which use the hot ash from erupting volcanoes in Papua New Guinea to incubate their eggs. A surprising and inspiring documentary about nature's survivors.

How Animals and Plants Survive

Faced with more frequent and violent natural disasters caused by climate change, animals and plants are adapting. A surprising and inspiring documentary about nature's survivors.

Natural Disasters

Pippi Longstocking, the superhumanly strong redhead with pigtails and freckles, conquers the world of classical ballet. The Swedish dancer and choreographer Pär Isberg stages Astrid Lindgren’s favourite character from the Villa Villekulla for the Helsinki opera house. The ballet music is the work of Georg Riedel and Stefan Nilsson.

From the Helsinki Opera

The Swedish dancer and choreographer Pär Isberg stages Astrid Lindgren’s favourite character for the Helsinki opera house.

Pippi Longstocking

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

A special gala concert to celebrate five years of Hamburg’s fantastic new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, opened on January 11 2017. The NDR Elbphilharmonie orchestra performs works by Adams, Adès and Salonen with conductor Alan Gilbert and pianist Kiril Gerstein.

With Kirill Gerstein, Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

A special gala concert to celebrate five years of Hamburg’s fantastic new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.

5 Years of the Elbphilharmonie

Lowriding is a passion for cars where owners customise their vintage vehicles to look cool gliding along the Los Angeles boulevards. For long a male-only pursuit, more and more women are getting into it lowriding.

Geo Reportage

Lowriders of Los Angeles

Present on the coast but also inland, dunes are shaped by the wind and are in perpetual movement. These extraordinary landscapes made of infinite grains of sand are ephemeral and inhospitable. Yet the environment they offer is astonishingly diverse.

Present on the coast but also inland, dunes are in perpetual movement, creating extraordinary ephemeral landscapes.

Dunes: Europe's Moving Landscapes

A region of Europe with a shared experience of communism and USSR dominance, Eastern Europe today is characterised by nations with diverse cultural and political identities.

Mapping the World

How many Eastern Europes?

Vadum Minsyuk and Yuri Andreyev fled the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014. In search of a new beginning, they decided to start a new life in the Chernobyl region, close to the exclusion zone from the 1986 nuclear disaster. The dangers of radiation are better than the rockets of war.

Vadum Minsyuk and Yuri Andreyev fled the war in eastern Ukraine to start a new life in the Chernobyl region,  The dangers of radiation are better than the rockets of war for them.

Re: New Beginning in Chernobyl

A journey through Middle-earth, or rather New Zealand. Peter Jackson used the natural beauty of his native land to great effect in his film adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s classic trilogy. A tour through locations for the Shire, the Misty Mountains and Mordor… 

Cult Film Locations

A journey through New Zealand used to great effect in the film adaptation of Tolkien’s classic.

Looking for the Lord of the Rings

Iraq in 2022: Will the emerging nation succeed in resisting foreign influence and from Iran in particular? What does the future hold for the Kurdish autonomous region? And will the USA ever really leave?

Iraq in 2022: Will the emerging nation succeed in resisting influence from foreign powers, and from Iran in particular? 

Iraq - A Sovereign Country?

To celebrate 50 years of French radio station FIP, Sting gives a special performance in the monumental surroundings of the Pantheon in Paris.

50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

The Indian state of Sikkim has banned pesticides completely, allowing only organic farming. The results: healthy food and healthy soils.

ARTE Reportage

India: Sikkim - A Green New World

It's big business: in summer, hundreds of kilos of mushrooms are illegally picked every day in Romanian forests. They are then transported to Italy by intermediaries where they are sold at astronomical prices. Romanian authorities do nothing as the forests are looted unsustainably for their grey gold.

It's big business: in summer, hundreds of kilos of mushrooms are illegally picked every day in Romanian forests

Re: Truffle Traffick in Romania

Stuttgart Ballet performs ‘Onegin’, John Cranko’s acclaimed 1965 choreography of Alexander Pushkin’s novel. Classical ballet at its best in a version created for the cinema.

A Ballet by John Cranko

Stuttgart Ballet performs ‘Onegin’, John Cranko’s acclaimed 1965 choreography of Alexander Pushkin’s novel.

Onegin

Mohamed Ali was aware of the power of image. A genius boxer and king of communication, he surrounded himself with the best photographers of his time and attracted the interest of the press, shaping his own iconography. So how did Muhammad Ali win the fight to control his image?

Gymnastics

Mohamed Ali wasn't just a genius boxer, but a king of communication

Mohamed Ali: The Legend of a Fighter

Reinhold Messner is a mountaineering legend. From an early age he climbed the breathtaking Dolomites in his native South-Tyrol before conquering the highest peaks in the world. He shares his passion for mountaineering and his life philosophy.

Man of the Peaks

Reinhold Messner

Venezuelans have been living through a deep economic crisis for several years with food shortages coupled with hyperinflation. Press freedom is also in peril as the government cracks down on independent media. But some young journalists are going offline, giving news reports live from city buses.

Desperate to provide independent news, some young journalists are giving news bulletins offline on board city buses.

Venezuela: Desperate for News

Aquile di San Martino is the oldest mountaineering association in the Dolomites. Rocco is the oldest and most experienced active guide, and young Livio is in his last phase of mountain guide training. They are out on their last expedition before Livio is a fully-fledged 'aquile' - an eagle of the mountains. 

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Young Livio is in his last phase of mountain guide training, and has just one last expedition to complete

Mountaineering in the Dolomites

In Northern Ireland tensions are high as the realities of Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocol become apparent. ARTE meets members of the loyalist community leading up to 12 July, Orangemen’s Day.

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