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Light Plate transforms the iconic, idyllic Tuscan landscape into a richly visual palette that contrasts the old with the new, and urban bustle with bucolic calm. Using hand-processed black-and-white film, the US filmmaker Josh Gibson treats the beauty of an Italian countryside and the sensuousness of the pasta-making process with a light, rhythmic touch to achieve a soothingly pleasing abstraction of nature and craft.
Director: Josh Gibson
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Nature and landscape
‘A culture is no better than its woods’ – what our trees reveal about us, by W H Auden
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Nature and landscape
California’s landscapes provide endless inspiration for a woodcut printmaker
10 minutes
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Animals and humans
Join seabirds as they migrate, encountering human communities along the way
13 minutes
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Food and drink
The passage of time is a peculiar thing in a 24-hour diner
14 minutes
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Knowledge
Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow
11 minutes
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Family life
The stream-of-consciousness thoughts and memories that emerge while cooking a meal
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Food and drink
Local tensions simmer amid a potato salad contest at the Czech-Polish border
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Knowledge
An Indigenous myth and a geological survey elicit two ways of knowing one place
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Childhood and adolescence
The unique fellowship between teens and young puffins on a remote Icelandic island
20 minutes