RM Arts (Firm)

Pablo Picasso was a legend whose paintings almost everyone can visualize today. The film works through the artworks of Picasso in chronological order and discusses the forces that inspired them, whether in the personal life of the artist or the wider world.

A presentation of Puccini's opera Turandot.

Filmed at many museums on both sides of the Atlantic, this program critically examines the following masterpieces of Italian Renaissance painting: Masaccio's Profile of a Young Man ; Andrea Mantegna's Crucifixion of Christ ; Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Ginevra de'Benci ; Raphael's Portrait of Bindo Altoviti ; Titian's Bacchanal ; and Paolo Veronese's The marriage at Cana.

American artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) is profiled in the context of Modernism and reviews the past fifty years of his creative life. Discussed are the origins of Abstract Expressionism, its links with Surrealism, and its struggle for recognition. Included are scenes of artists Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, and others. Interviews with art critics and historians are featured with scenes from a major retrospective of Motherwell's work at the...

A documentary of the American Theatre Ballet. Includes interviews with individual members and performances by the ballet, which include excerpts from Sleeping beauty, Swan Lake, The leaves are fading, Cruel world, Remanso, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote and Bruch's violin concerto no. 1.

Gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today plus archive film and dramatized reconstructions. Discusses early civilizations that arose in Africa. Then looks at three different communities to examine ways African peoples have adapted to often hostile environments.

The classic biblical story of seduction, betrayal of love and religion and the vengeance of man and God.

Gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today plus archive film and dramatized reconstructions. Looks at the succession of Europeans which came to Africa: explorers, missionaries, empire-builders. The 1880's then saw a 30-year "scramble for Africa" when nearly the entire continent became subject to European colonial rule.

Puccini's bittersweet tale of high-spirited bohemians and doomed love.

"Frida Kahlo: declared a symbol of Mexican national heritage, made into a cult figure for the women's movement, praised by the likes of Picasso and Breton. At the age of 18, she suffered an accident that would forever change her life, destining her to pain, numerous operations and childlessness. This film takes you to the Blue House in Coyoacán, the place of her birth and the last years of her life. Today, the house serves as a museum dedicated to...