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Pasta-making stunningly distills the connection between nature and craft
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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Rituals and celebrations
A whale hunt is an act of prayer for an Inuit community north of the Arctic Circle
8 minutes
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Music
The peculiar beauty of a song caught between composition and improvisation
3 minutes
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Rituals and celebrations
A beginner’s guide to a joyful Persian tradition of spring renewal and rebirth
3 minutes
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Love and friendship
Love looks a bit different for a chain-smoking couple in a small apartment
11 minutes
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Biography and memoir
Passed over as the first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight carved out an impressive second act
13 minutes
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Engineering
A close-up look at electronic paper reveals its exquisite patterns – and limitations
9 minutes
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Architecture
West Africa was once an architectural laboratory. Is it time for a revival?
12 minutes
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Biography and memoir
The unique life philosophy of Abdi, born in Somalia, living in the Netherlands
29 minutes
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Art
‘If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution?’ One artist’s imaginative activism
17 minutes