Kaleidoscope, looking at life frames
documentary – lifestyle – environment – art – culture - society – history – nature – work – everyday life
Kaleidoscope is a 26-minute documentary collection, which heightens our awareness of our daily environments. It tells the stories of these places and the continuous changes that they are undergoing.
In each episode, Kaleidoscope chooses an enclosed, 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 as well as historical traces which keep on reappearing....
« Looking at our surroundings – that has to be learnt. A kaleidoscope, can be very mischievous in educating us : it cuts the most ordinary of places into slices of life, it reveals these slivers at a glimpse and makes individuals shine. In neighbourhoods, shopping malls, factories, on board a cruiseliner, in an artic village or a hospital, on an industrial wasteland or at a tourist site, everyone thinks about his world and organises his terrain… We all do our own thing in accordance with our cultures and pasts. That is how man lives ».
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Concept: Marc-Henri Wajnberg and Rogier Van Eck
Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg, Paul-Jean Vranken, Gerry Meaudre, Rogier Van Eck, Marta Bergman, Madeleine Caillard, Rob Rombout, Dominique Guerrier, Peter Krüger, Peter Brosens, Alain de Halleux, Benoît van Wambeke, Micha Wald, Claudio Pazienza , Anne Levy-Morelle
Duration: 33x 26 minutes
Year: 2002-2006
A Wajnbrosse production
In co-production with Panic Productions and ARTE France
With the support of the French Community of Belgium, the National Lottery, the CNC and MEDIA
EPISODE 1
The Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels, Belgium
directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg
EPISODE 2
Vienna Gasometers, Austria
directed by Paul-Jean Vranken
EPISODE 3
The liner "SS Norway", Caribbean
directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg
EPISODE 4
Ibiza, Spain
directed by Rogier Van Eck
EPISODE 5
Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Norway
directed by Gerry Meaudre
EPISODE 6
Bretonneau Hospital, Paris, France
directed by Gerry Meaudre
EPISODE 7
Emscher Park, Germany
directed by Rogier Van Eck
EPISODE 8
Berlin, Tiergarten, Germany
directed by Marta Bergman
EPISODE 9
Hakkas villages, China
directed by Gerry Meaudre
EPISODE 10
La Casa de Velázquez, Spain
directed by Rogier Van Eck
EPISODE 11
Christiania, Copenhagen
directed by Gerry Meaudre
EPISODE 12
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
directed by Madeleine Caillard
EPISODE 13
Overloon Prison Center, The Netherlands
directed by Rob Rombout
EPISODE 14
Babelsberg studios, Germany
directed by Dominique Guerrier
EPISODE 15
Karlovy Vary Thermal Baths, Czech Republic
directed by Peter Krüger
EPISODE 16
The Americano Togni circus, Italy
directed by Gerry Meaudre
EPISODE 17
The Workers' Gardens, Dieppe, France
directed by Peter Brosens
EPISODE 18
The Grand Hotel Europe in Saint Petersburg, Russia
directed by Rogier Van Eck
EPISODE 19
The center for asylum seekers in Fraipont, Belgium
directed by Dominique Guerrier
EPISODE 20
The Indian community of Lac-Simon, Canada
directed by Alain de Halleux
EPISODE 21
Denpasar Market, Bali, Indonesia
directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg
EPISODE 22
Benediktbeuern Monastery, Germany
directed by Peter Krüger
EPISODE 23
The Oasis of Ksar Ghilane, Tunisia
directed by Dominique Guerrier
EPISODE 24
University of Krakow, Poland
directed by Rob Rombout
EPISODE 25
Goreme cave dwellings, Turkey
directed by Peter Brosens
EPISODE 26
The Radiant City, Marseille, France
directed by Benoît van Wambeke
EPISODE 27
The district of "La Baraque", Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
directed by Micha Wald
EPISODE 28
Aran Islands, Inis Meáin, Ireland
directed by Claudio Pazienza
EPISODE 29
Brackenhurst Campus, Great Britain
directed by Anne-Levy Morelle
EPISODE 30
The Military Academy, Portugal
directed by Dominique Guerrier
EPISODE 31
The Kibbutz of Mishmar Ha'emek, Israel
directed by Gerry Meaudre
EPISODE 32
The Trans-Siberian Railway, Moscow-Vladivostok, Russia
directed by Rogier Van Eck
EPISODE 33
Bollywood, Mumbai, India
directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg
