Synopsis

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Of course there are always walls, streets, furniture, objects and people ... Of course we build, we break, we move, and we start again, here as everywhere ... And yet, here or elsewhere it is not the same. Here it is with us and there it is with them. Everyone does according to their culture and their past.

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Watching your living environment can also be learned. And for this education there, a kaleidoscope, it turns out to be very malicious: it cuts the most common places into slices of life, it organizes small slices of glances and it makes the strips of particular shine. By neighborhoods, by shopping malls, by factories, aboard an ocean liner, in a polar village, in a school or a hospital, in an industrial wasteland or in a tourist site, everyone thinks about their world and organizes their territory… This is how men live.

 

Kaléidoscope, views on a living environment is a 33 X 26-minute television collection whose ambition is to make us attentive to the places of our daily life. He tells their stories and their continuous transformations.

 

From episode to episode, Kaleidoscope, views of a living environment travels through Europe and the world and tells the story of the variation in our lifestyles. We go from an ocean liner to a prison, from an alternative community to a kibbutz, from the development of a brownfield site to the rehabilitation of a village, from allotment gardens to a refugee center, from a university to an oasis ... This is how Kaleidoscope, gazes on a living environment poses a camera from the far west of Europe (the Aran Islands) to the far east of Eurasia (Vladivostok).

Technical sheet

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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

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EPISODE 2

Vienna Gasometers, Austria

directed by Paul-Jean Vranken

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EPISODE 3

The liner "SS Norway", Caribbean

directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg

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EPISODE 4

Ibiza, Spain

directed by Rogier Van Eck

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EPISODE 5

Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Norway

directed by Gerry Meaudre

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EPISODE 6

Bretonneau Hospital, Paris, France

directed by Gerry Meaudre

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EPISODE 7

Emscher Park, Germany

directed by Rogier Van Eck

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EPISODE 8

Berlin, Tiergarten, Germany

directed by Marta Bergman

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EPISODE 9

Hakkas villages, China

directed by Gerry Meaudre

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EPISODE 10

La Casa de Velázquez, Spain

directed by Rogier Van Eck

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EPISODE 11

Christiania, Copenhagen

directed by Gerry Meaudre

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EPISODE 12

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

directed by Madeleine Caillard

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EPISODE 13

Overloon Prison Center, The Netherlands

directed by Rob Rombout

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EPISODE 14

Babelsberg studios, Germany

directed by Dominique Guerrier

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EPISODE 15

Karlovy Vary Thermal Baths, Czech Republic

directed by Peter Krüger

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EPISODE 16

The Americano Togni circus, Italy

directed by Gerry Meaudre

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EPISODE 17

The Workers' Gardens, Dieppe, France

directed by Peter Brosens

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EPISODE 18

The Grand Hotel Europe in Saint Petersburg, Russia

directed by Rogier Van Eck

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EPISODE 19

The center for asylum seekers in Fraipont, Belgium

directed by Dominique Guerrier

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EPISODE 20

The Indian community of Lac-Simon, Canada

directed by Alain de Halleux

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EPISODE 21

Denpasar Market, Bali, Indonesia

directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg

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EPISODE 22

Benediktbeuern Monastery, Germany

directed by Peter Krüger

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EPISODE 23

The Oasis of Ksar Ghilane, Tunisia

directed by Dominique Guerrier

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EPISODE 24

University of Krakow, Poland

directed by Rob Rombout

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EPISODE 25

Goreme cave dwellings, Turkey

directed by Peter Brosens

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EPISODE 26

The Radiant City, Marseille, France

directed by Benoît van Wambeke

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EPISODE 27

The district of "La Baraque", Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

directed by Micha Wald

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EPISODE 28

Aran Islands, Inis Meáin, Ireland

directed by Claudio Pazienza

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EPISODE 29

Brackenhurst Campus, Great Britain

directed by Anne-Levy Morelle

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EPISODE 30

The Military Academy, Portugal

directed by Dominique Guerrier

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EPISODE 31

The Kibbutz of Mishmar Ha'emek, Israel

directed by Gerry Meaudre

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EPISODE 32

The Trans-Siberian Railway, Moscow-Vladivostok, Russia

directed by Rogier Van Eck

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EPISODE 33

Bollywood, Mumbai, India

directed by Marc-Henri Wajnberg

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