Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more.
A fascinating exploration of the diversity of human sensory experience, Labyrinth delves into the often complex relationship between the deaf and music. Interviewing a range of deaf people on their personal experiences, the Greek director Dimitris Papathanasis uncovers a nuanced, heterogenous understanding of music as a combination of visuals, vibrations, rhythm and movement – with as broad a range of feelings and perspectives as you’d expect from any group asked to hold forth on the topic. Closing with a performance of music for the deaf, this short documentary challenges hearing viewers to a new experience of what music can be.
Director: Dimitris Papathanasis
video
History of technology
Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy
19 minutes
video
Animals and humans
The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net
10 minutes
video
Technology and the self
Why single Chinese women are freezing their eggs in California
24 minutes
video
Beauty and aesthetics
Can you see music in this painting? How synaesthesia fuelled Kandinsky’s art
10 minutes
video
Childhood and adolescence
The police camp where tween girls enter a sisterhood of law and order
28 minutes
video
Astronomy
The remarkable innovations inspired by our need to know the night sky
5 minutes
video
Knowledge
Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow
11 minutes
video
War and peace
‘She is living on in many hearts’ – Otto Frank on the legacy of his daughter’s diary
12 minutes
video
Art
Why Diego Velázquez needed a lifetime to paint his enigmatic masterpiece
31 minutes