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This medium contains footage from a two-day workshop including methods, ideas and games which help students overcome their inhibitions, improve their communication and build trust. Some of the world's leading theatre practitioners speak about their work and give helpful and practical examples.
Footage from around the world shows the different ecosystems of the Canadian tundra, the tropical rainforests of the Amazon and Borneo, and the savannahs and deserts of Africa. The four main features are explained as well as the influences of latitude, precipitation, altitude, and proximity to the coast.
We have updated one of our most popular titles: Shot over three decades, the video footage documents the effects of rapid erosion on the Holderness coast. Various projects and debates to make the coast more sustainable are presented. We also interviewed local residents about the severe flooding of 2013.
Niemand geht davon aus, dass ein Schulkind sterben könnte. Dieser Film lässt Eltern, Schüler und Lehrer zu Wort kommen, die mit einer solchen traumatischen Situation umgehen mussten. Ein Schulseelsorger, zwei Psychologen und eine Fachberaterin für Psychotraumatologie gehen auf die Erzählungen ein.
Jerzy Grotowski was one of the most famous theatre practitioners of the last century. The medium traces both his life and his enormous influence on contemporary theatre. It shows how Grotowski's visionary ideas have been and can be used to create successful and powerful performances.
It is hard to create an outstanding application for a drama school. This medium contains interviews with experts from famous drama schools in which they give tips about how to avoid pitfalls and how to maximize the chances of success in auditions. It also shows how a future student can pick fitting courses.
This medium provides guidance for theatre companies who would like to work with Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. Besides performance footage of professional companies, it includes practical exercises from leading Artaud practitioners and a comprehensive overview from Artaud's biographer Stephen Barber.
How can a group of students create a piece of drama? This medium includes interviews, ideas, rehearsal footage and clips of the performance outcome. It is shown how well-known creative devisers generate text and movement and how they define and structure their material in the conceptual process.
The medium contains methods and ideas for adding physical action to performance. It combines live footage, interviews and insights into workshops and give an overview over the history of physical action. Students benefit from the exercises which are vividly explained by professionals.
The understanding of waves helped to develop the plate tectonic theory and made the study of earthquakes easier for seismic survey teams. This medium shows the strong connection between these topics and explains the key terminology of wavelength, amplitude, period and frequency using exciting footage.
People in the graphic products' industry use different smart materials nowadays. This medium introduces fluorescent and phosphorescent paints, thermo chromic inks and photochromic dyes with their particular characteristics and properties. Furthermore, it explains the applications they can be used for.
Resultant forces, inertia, momentum and energy combined have devastating consequences in a car crash testing: This medium uses extraordinary slow motion HD footage to show how energy is distributed in the blink of an eye. It illustrates the necessity of well-designed air bags, seats and crumple zones.
The distribution of electricity from power station to consumers is the topic of this medium. It gives a short outline of the entire distribution network and explains the function of step up and step down transformers. Other safety features like insulators, circuit breakers and earth rods are introduced.
This medium explains the principles that allow us to produce and to distribute electrical energy on a large scale. It includes footage and explanations of the motor effect, electromagnets, magnetic as well as electric fields and EM induction, the latter concentrating on Tesla coils and transformers.
In the postmodern era there has been a cornucopia of designs, ideas and innovations in the design houses of Milan. The medium shows footage from the Alessi factory and museum among others and lets leading postmodern designers like Mendini, Alberto Alessi and George Sowden talk about their profession.
This medium gives a practical example for product design by showing the processing of a children's pull along suitcase step by step: How is anthropometric and ergonomic data used, and which role plays market research for the concept development? Additionally, injection and rotational moulding are compared.
If a specific plastic should be reused to design a product, it has to be recycled, regenerated and tested for it has to meet special properties. This medium gives practical examples which explain how these steps of procedure can be sustainable: Can you turn Sony PlayStations cases into school chairs?
The Sahara is one of the most inhospitable areas of the world: The lack of water, the extreme temperatures and the inaccessibility make it hostile for humans. But there are chances to take. This medium shows different interesting ways the desert can be used if people eventually overcome its challenges.
Packaging should have low production costs, protect the product, be eco-friendly and attractive for customers all at once. This medium gives an insight into designers' decisions for more recycled materials or a reduced packaging. In some cases it is also necessary to revise the complete product's design
The audience is introduced to Yahya who's nomadic family had to leave her land in the peripheral region of the Sahara: Desertification forced the people to find a new home. This medium shows the causes for this development and proposes different ways to meet this challenge environmentally acceptable.
A megacity like Mumbai creates inequality and challenges, but also opportunities for the people who live here. The development of the nationally and internationally important city is extremely fast like in many LICs/NEEs. This depends partly on rural-urban migration and partly on natural increase.
Mumbai is growing so fast that the urban planners have difficulties to keep up regarding the development of a fitting waste management: It has to meet whole new needs by now. More and more vehicles lead to traffic congestion, and the planners discuss whether a new metro system would solve this problem.
The Alps offer attractive opportunities for tourism as well as for economics and farming. This film shows the opposing interests of the involved parties and points out how huge the environmental impact is (especially when it comes to the risk of avalanches). Sustainable solutions have to be found.
East London has benefited from the Olympic Games in 2012, but the media hype got out of hand. This medium explains who were the winners and the losers (no huge changes happen without losers) and shows the social, environmental and economic developments the area has indeed gone through because of the games.
There are many impacts on the sustainability of a community. This film compares three of them in the UK. Politicians, residents and planners talk about the environmental quality, the infrastructure and the housing and service provision of their communities so the audience is able to make a comparison.
Changing coastlines are hard to manage sustainably. The medium shows in which kinds of processes they are formed. The audience meets the people who visit the area, work or live here. Flora and fauna of the region are shown. To meet all the different needs is an act of balance and requires careful analyses.
Uncounted tourists are drawn to the Dorset Coast – the same place where Europe's largest onshore oilfield is located. These two players need to be taken care of in a way that also protects the environment. The medium shows the management strategies used to fulfil the needs of people, work and earth itself.
Coasts in their numerous forms are created by erosion, mass movement, transportation and deposition weathering. The film explores the impact of geology and explains the difference between concordant and discordant coastlines. It shows the roles of sediment sources and destructive and constructive waves.
Flooding caused by extreme weather happened frequently the last years in the UK. This medium gives a summary of the causes (human and physical) and predicts whether there are more disasters to come. The impacts on those affected by the masses of water are shown as well as the ways to deal with the disasters.
A river can have different faces - and they are all shown on this medium. It contains concrete examples for meanders and deltas, for waterfalls and rapids, for gorges and flood plains. The huge impact on the river by transportation, deposition, erosion and by rejuvenation are further topics of the film.