Computer viruses as a creative strategy? Pioneering digital artist Joseph Nechvatal believes they are. The Paris- and New York-based artist Nechvatal speaks with host Michael Rush about his decades-long experiments with... Read More
From Paris' Nouvelle Vague to New York's avant-garde, filmmaker and curator Jackie Raynal has gained renown for her work in film (as a director and as an editor for Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and many others) as well... Read More
Thin, with a trimmed beard and
glasses, Martin Provost looks very much the 21st century
filmmaker. But for Séraphine - which recently won
the César Awards for Best Picture, Best Actress (Yolande Moreau)
and... Read More
Stephen Schaefer talks to film director Christophe Barratier, who directed the film, Paris 36. Barratier also directed the wildly successful 2004 film The Chorus, which created a brief chorus-joining craze in France.
Host Daniel Durning takes a fascinating look into the world of Low-Bit Visualists, who accompany the Chiptune musicians in their explosive festival performances. The Blip Festival 2008 showcases artists repurposing... Read More
How does one of America's bestselling thrillers become a French-made box-office hit?
In the case of Harlan Coben's Tell No One, it was simple. The option by English
director Michael Apted lapsed and French... Read More
A 2007 Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature, Persepolis is the black-and-white, hand drawn animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's four graphic novels. Satrapi's autobiographical story begins in the Shah's... Read More
Leave it to the French put the pizzazz back into bigscreen digital animation. Christian Volckman's silky, black-and-white Renaissance imagines a futuristic Paris where Gothic landmarks and the Eiffel Tower have... Read More
Geometrically inclined painter Manfred Mohr can easily shift from the world of three-dimensional cubic forms to six-dimensional hyper-cubes. The digital pioneer gives Daniel Durning the algorithmic lowdown on a system... Read More
