In this landmark travel series, award-winning presenter Denise Keller embarks on a profound personal passage to explore one of the world's greatest continous "living" cultures - China. Today China offers by far the greatest canvas displaying a phenomenal picture of a living, breathing culture. A place where it is possible to straddle the ancient, the medieval and the modern all in one. 　　ART OF LIFE 　　Presenter Denise Keller explores the vast artistic landscape of China through its rich culture of performing arts. She begins in Beijing with musicians and craftsmen who keep alive the ancient sounds of the Guqin instrument. Oscar-winning composer Tandun gives her unparallled access to his spectacular concerts in the ancient capital Xian and the “Water Heavens” of Zhujiajiao in Shanghai. The ancient town also sets a Ming Dynasty garden stage for the contemporary revival of a centuries-old classical Kunqu Opera show called Peony Pavillion. But hours of face-painting, elaborate costumes and intense coaching are first needed to try out for a lead role. Denise then sets off into the rural villages of Jianxi to explore the 5,000 year old rituals of the Nuo Dance. Finally, she returns to Beijing to rehearse with the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe as they display the breathtaking “Dance of a Thousand Hands”. 　　 　　ICONS OF CULTURE 　　Presenter Denise Keller sets out to explore some of the most iconic products synonymous with China's cultural identity. The monumental terraces of the Hani in Yunnan lead her on a rice trail to the ancient water town of Shaoxing to discover cottage industries which have for centuries created China's most iconic beverage. In Hangzhou, she plunges into the tea culture of Longjing's lush gardens. In Jingdezhen, Jianxi, she meets artists who show her how a continous culture of innovation has made it the porcelain capital of the world for hundreds of years. Suzhou in Jiangsu takes Denise back in time to experience highly sophisticated silk production techniques that made it the historical centre of a fabric that put China of the map of international commerce. Finally, fast forward to the 21st century, she discovers a brave new wave in Shanghai's contemporary art scene that's creating new icons of the future.

In this landmark travel series, award-winning presenter Denise Keller embarks on a profound personal passage to explore one of the world's greatest continous "living" cultures - China. Today China offers by far the greatest canvas displaying a phenomenal picture of a living, breathing culture. A place where it is possible to straddle the ancient, the medieval and the modern all in one. 　　ART OF LIFE 　　Presenter Denise Keller explores the vast artistic landscape of China through its rich culture of performing arts. She begins in Beijing with musicians and craftsmen who keep alive the ancient sounds of the Guqin instrument. Oscar-winning composer Tandun gives her unparallled access to his spectacular concerts in the ancient capital Xian and the “Water Heavens” of Zhujiajiao in Shanghai. The ancient town also sets a Ming Dynasty garden stage for the contemporary revival of a centuries-old classical Kunqu Opera show called Peony Pavillion. But hours of face-painting, elaborate costumes and intense coaching are first needed to try out for a lead role. Denise then sets off into the rural villages of Jianxi to explore the 5,000 year old rituals of the Nuo Dance. Finally, she returns to Beijing to rehearse with the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe as they display the breathtaking “Dance of a Thousand Hands”. 　　 　　ICONS OF CULTURE 　　Presenter Denise Keller sets out to explore some of the most iconic products synonymous with China's cultural identity. The monumental terraces of the Hani in Yunnan lead her on a rice trail to the ancient water town of Shaoxing to discover cottage industries which have for centuries created China's most iconic beverage. In Hangzhou, she plunges into the tea culture of Longjing's lush gardens. In Jingdezhen, Jianxi, she meets artists who show her how a continous culture of innovation has made it the porcelain capital of the world for hundreds of years. Suzhou in Jiangsu takes Denise back in time to experience highly sophisticated silk production techniques that made it the historical centre of a fabric that put China of the map of international commerce. Finally, fast forward to the 21st century, she discovers a brave new wave in Shanghai's contemporary art scene that's creating new icons of the future.

Feature film inspired by the pranks performed by the comedy troupe The Janoskians.

2006年6月在Annecy国际动画电影节上评选出的“动画的世纪·100部作品”第39名。

Within the human struggle to live and work on a changing planet, questions of value, extraction, and adaptation echo across seemingly disparate worlds. A Common Sequence examines shifts of life and labor through a critically-endangered salamander and plant patents in the apple industry. Weaving the stories of Dominican nuns running a conservation lab, a group of fishermen attempting to live off of a depleting lake, engineers developing AI-driven harvesting machines, and an indigenous biomedical researcher resisting the commodification of human DNA, the film becomes a meditation on the shifting border between the natural and unnatural world, and the dynamics of power at play. 　　源自：https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/section-tiff/movie/1269/14984

2006年6月在Annecy国际动画电影节上评选出的“动画的世纪·100部作品”第39名。

在时长约31分钟的该片中，所记录下的公共场所包括：一个郊区小火车站深夜的候车室、一个矿区附近黄昏时分的汽车站、一辆不知开往何方向的公共汽车、一个由废弃公共汽车改造成的小餐馆和一个长途汽车站的候车室（兼具台球厅、舞厅等多种功能）。 　　此外，影片还记录下了在这些公共空间里来来往往的人们某些时间段的行为：一个穿军大衣的中年男子一直在等待，终于等来一个年纪相仿的女人提着一袋沉甸甸的面粉从走下火车；一个老人在铁栏后极其耐心地拉好上衣的拉链，汽车把老人带走，却落下一个气喘吁吁的年轻女子，在她百无聊赖地等待下一辆汽车到来时，矿区的天空下响起钟声；如此，等等。

在时长约31分钟的该片中，所记录下的公共场所包括：一个郊区小火车站深夜的候车室、一个矿区附近黄昏时分的汽车站、一辆不知开往何方向的公共汽车、一个由废弃公共汽车改造成的小餐馆和一个长途汽车站的候车室（兼具台球厅、舞厅等多种功能）。 　　此外，影片还记录下了在这些公共空间里来来往往的人们某些时间段的行为：一个穿军大衣的中年男子一直在等待，终于等来一个年纪相仿的女人提着一袋沉甸甸的面粉从走下火车；一个老人在铁栏后极其耐心地拉好上衣的拉链，汽车把老人带走，却落下一个气喘吁吁的年轻女子，在她百无聊赖地等待下一辆汽车到来时，矿区的天空下响起钟声；如此，等等。

姜哲中是一个我行我素的刑警，他经常收受贿赂，私放罪犯，至于敲诈勒索，白吃白喝则是家常便饭。他受到纪律检查部门立案调查，没想到他的拍档在此时饮弹自戕，一批数目巨大的毒品不知去向。检查部门去搜查哲中的家，却一无所获，他的过分清贫倒引起上级的怀疑。一个雨夜，哲中在一个狭窄的小巷执勤时与一个穿着雨衣的神秘男人擦身而过，他照例耍起了威风想吓唬对方，不料那人也非善类，操起手中的利刀向他猛刺后迅速逃跑，在哲中脸上留下深深的伤口。哲中拣起那人掉下的猎刀，发誓要抓住他狠狠的报复……

姜哲中是一个我行我素的刑警，他经常收受贿赂，私放罪犯，至于敲诈勒索，白吃白喝则是家常便饭。他受到纪律检查部门立案调查，没想到他的拍档在此时饮弹自戕，一批数目巨大的毒品不知去向。检查部门去搜查哲中的家，却一无所获，他的过分清贫倒引起上级的怀疑。一个雨夜，哲中在一个狭窄的小巷执勤时与一个穿着雨衣的神秘男人擦身而过，他照例耍起了威风想吓唬对方，不料那人也非善类，操起手中的利刀向他猛刺后迅速逃跑，在哲中脸上留下深深的伤口。哲中拣起那人掉下的猎刀，发誓要抓住他狠狠的报复……