在藏语中，该地区被称为''rgyal-thang''。传说喜马拉雅山脉地下有一个神统治、主宰全人类的神秘王国：香格-{里}--拉。从1922年到 1949年，美国植物学家、地理学者和人类学家约瑟夫·洛克（Joseph Rock，1884－1962）走遍了中国的大西南。他在1928年6月13日开始的一次从四川木-{里}-到西藏亚丁的探险穿越活动因为极富传奇色彩而被美国《国家地理》杂志以探险日记的形式发表，从而引起了学术界的巨大反响。英国小说家詹姆斯·希尔顿以此为背景创作了长篇小说《消失的地平线》，作者在小说中说中国某一处地方就是传说中的香格-{里}-拉。小说极为畅销。很多人以此书寻找香格-{里}-拉。 　　在藏族文化中有“香拔拉”（''Sham-bha-la''，梵文：“持乐世界”）的传说，据说也是处于喜马拉雅山的神秘土地，可能是西方人的“香格-{里}-拉”神话的来源。 　　仍然，中国内外的藏学家都认为，“香格里拉”这个名字和藏族文化毫无关系，仅仅是为了吸引西方游客而杜撰出来的。 　　示巴女王(Makeda, Queen of Sheba)是公元前非洲东部埃塞俄比亚的女王。她在非洲的势力，最强的时候覆盖整个东非。根据《旧约圣经》列王纪上第10章、《古兰经》和其他历史资料的记载，她因为仰慕当时以色列国王所罗门的才华与智慧，不惜紓尊降贵，前往以色列向所罗门提亲。而所罗门王也因此与她犯了姦淫罪(因为他已有妻室)，而被上帝所遗弃，并展开了以色列王国衰落的序幕。示巴女王被以色列人逐回埃塞俄比亚之时，据说已怀有所罗门王的骨肉。而出奇地埃塞俄比亚当地的语言亦与古希伯来语十分近似。此外，存放於耶路撒冷圣殿的约柜在罗马帝国军队屠城之后神秘失踪，据闻就是当年所罗门王在埃塞俄比亚的遗裔把约柜秘密从耶路撒冷运到埃塞俄比亚收藏。这些片断的正史、野史，都或多或少证实了示巴女王当年和所罗门王的关係非比寻常。亦有人凭着《雅歌》第一章第5节的一句，而认为《雅歌》是所罗门王与示巴女王之间的情话。 　　亚瑟王(King Arthur)是英格兰传说中的国王，圆桌骑士团的首领，一位近乎神话般的传奇人物。他是罗马帝国瓦解之后，率领圆桌骑士团统一了不列颠群岛，被后人尊称为亚瑟王。关於亚瑟王的传奇故事，最初如何诞生，源自何处，皆无从查考。究竟亚瑟王是不是以某位历史人物作为基础塑造出来的虚构角色也不得而知。 　　西元800年左右，威尔斯的修士撰写了一本《布灵顿人的历史》，书中首次记载「亚瑟」这个名字，描述他领导威尔斯人抵抗从泰晤士河中游入侵的萨克森人。 　　在希腊神话中，金羊毛是一只会飞、会说话的名叫克里索姆勒斯的公羊的毛。赫耳墨斯将克里索姆勒斯送给色萨利的涅斐勒，让她用这只公羊来运送她的两个孩子海勒和菲利塞斯，来让逃离伊诺的毒手。克里索姆勒斯背着两个孩子向东飞，后来海勒落入海中，而菲利塞斯则安全地到达了科尔喀斯（相当于今天的格鲁吉亚）。菲利塞斯将克里索姆勒斯牺牲给宙斯，把它的羊毛送给了科尔喀斯的国王埃厄忒斯。 　　阿格诺特英雄们取金羊毛的故事发生在此后：当时在科尔喀斯的国王埃厄忒斯据说是太阳神赫利俄斯的儿子和美狄亚的父亲。伊阿宋和其他阿格诺特英雄们企图盗取金羊毛来保证伊阿宋获得他的遗产。最后在美狄亚的帮助下他们克服重重困难获取了金羊毛。美狄亚与伊阿宋结婚。 　　古代作家如斯特拉博、亚壁等对金羊毛的叙述与上述故事有些差别。金羊毛的故事很可能有一定的历史背景。今天的考古发现证明在前三千前两千年时今天的格鲁吉亚地区的冶金技巧已经达到了很高的水平了。尤其金的加工非常精巧。此外当时当地还有许多牧羊的部落。这些文化成就很可能是金羊毛的故事的背景。

在藏语中，该地区被称为''rgyal-thang''。传说喜马拉雅山脉地下有一个神统治、主宰全人类的神秘王国：香格-{里}--拉。从1922年到 1949年，美国植物学家、地理学者和人类学家约瑟夫·洛克（Joseph Rock，1884－1962）走遍了中国的大西南。他在1928年6月13日开始的一次从四川木-{里}-到西藏亚丁的探险穿越活动因为极富传奇色彩而被美国《国家地理》杂志以探险日记的形式发表，从而引起了学术界的巨大反响。英国小说家詹姆斯·希尔顿以此为背景创作了长篇小说《消失的地平线》，作者在小说中说中国某一处地方就是传说中的香格-{里}-拉。小说极为畅销。很多人以此书寻找香格-{里}-拉。 　　在藏族文化中有“香拔拉”（''Sham-bha-la''，梵文：“持乐世界”）的传说，据说也是处于喜马拉雅山的神秘土地，可能是西方人的“香格-{里}-拉”神话的来源。 　　仍然，中国内外的藏学家都认为，“香格里拉”这个名字和藏族文化毫无关系，仅仅是为了吸引西方游客而杜撰出来的。 　　示巴女王(Makeda, Queen of Sheba)是公元前非洲东部埃塞俄比亚的女王。她在非洲的势力，最强的时候覆盖整个东非。根据《旧约圣经》列王纪上第10章、《古兰经》和其他历史资料的记载，她因为仰慕当时以色列国王所罗门的才华与智慧，不惜紓尊降贵，前往以色列向所罗门提亲。而所罗门王也因此与她犯了姦淫罪(因为他已有妻室)，而被上帝所遗弃，并展开了以色列王国衰落的序幕。示巴女王被以色列人逐回埃塞俄比亚之时，据说已怀有所罗门王的骨肉。而出奇地埃塞俄比亚当地的语言亦与古希伯来语十分近似。此外，存放於耶路撒冷圣殿的约柜在罗马帝国军队屠城之后神秘失踪，据闻就是当年所罗门王在埃塞俄比亚的遗裔把约柜秘密从耶路撒冷运到埃塞俄比亚收藏。这些片断的正史、野史，都或多或少证实了示巴女王当年和所罗门王的关係非比寻常。亦有人凭着《雅歌》第一章第5节的一句，而认为《雅歌》是所罗门王与示巴女王之间的情话。 　　亚瑟王(King Arthur)是英格兰传说中的国王，圆桌骑士团的首领，一位近乎神话般的传奇人物。他是罗马帝国瓦解之后，率领圆桌骑士团统一了不列颠群岛，被后人尊称为亚瑟王。关於亚瑟王的传奇故事，最初如何诞生，源自何处，皆无从查考。究竟亚瑟王是不是以某位历史人物作为基础塑造出来的虚构角色也不得而知。 　　西元800年左右，威尔斯的修士撰写了一本《布灵顿人的历史》，书中首次记载「亚瑟」这个名字，描述他领导威尔斯人抵抗从泰晤士河中游入侵的萨克森人。 　　在希腊神话中，金羊毛是一只会飞、会说话的名叫克里索姆勒斯的公羊的毛。赫耳墨斯将克里索姆勒斯送给色萨利的涅斐勒，让她用这只公羊来运送她的两个孩子海勒和菲利塞斯，来让逃离伊诺的毒手。克里索姆勒斯背着两个孩子向东飞，后来海勒落入海中，而菲利塞斯则安全地到达了科尔喀斯（相当于今天的格鲁吉亚）。菲利塞斯将克里索姆勒斯牺牲给宙斯，把它的羊毛送给了科尔喀斯的国王埃厄忒斯。 　　阿格诺特英雄们取金羊毛的故事发生在此后：当时在科尔喀斯的国王埃厄忒斯据说是太阳神赫利俄斯的儿子和美狄亚的父亲。伊阿宋和其他阿格诺特英雄们企图盗取金羊毛来保证伊阿宋获得他的遗产。最后在美狄亚的帮助下他们克服重重困难获取了金羊毛。美狄亚与伊阿宋结婚。 　　古代作家如斯特拉博、亚壁等对金羊毛的叙述与上述故事有些差别。金羊毛的故事很可能有一定的历史背景。今天的考古发现证明在前三千前两千年时今天的格鲁吉亚地区的冶金技巧已经达到了很高的水平了。尤其金的加工非常精巧。此外当时当地还有许多牧羊的部落。这些文化成就很可能是金羊毛的故事的背景。

The backpack of wings: Modern Mythology' represents a speculative future scenario by supposing the computational earth with animal sensory networks. In this scenario, the network is not only used for conservation and environmental monitoring, but also for commercial insurance infrastructure for natural disaster early warning systems. Would wild animal agents recover their activities as part of the terrestrial sensor or oracle that they had in the myths of the distant past? The film explores the intersection between the east asian seismic mythologies and the scientific approaches, and it bridges the initial concept about curiosities and beliefs towards nature. Through a perspective of each agent: ornithologists; blackbirds; an insured person; a rapping bird, the film draws possible changes in their interaction and biology. Thus, it alerts to a techno-fixational optimism, throws points of resonance for thinking about the implication of tracking technology and using animal movement.

The backpack of wings: Modern Mythology' represents a speculative future scenario by supposing the computational earth with animal sensory networks. In this scenario, the network is not only used for conservation and environmental monitoring, but also for commercial insurance infrastructure for natural disaster early warning systems. Would wild animal agents recover their activities as part of the terrestrial sensor or oracle that they had in the myths of the distant past? The film explores the intersection between the east asian seismic mythologies and the scientific approaches, and it bridges the initial concept about curiosities and beliefs towards nature. Through a perspective of each agent: ornithologists; blackbirds; an insured person; a rapping bird, the film draws possible changes in their interaction and biology. Thus, it alerts to a techno-fixational optimism, throws points of resonance for thinking about the implication of tracking technology and using animal movement.

To this day it is considered the primordial cell of modern architecture and design - the Bauhaus. But "Bauhaus" doesn't just mean the cubic white house with flat roof, the steel pipe chair, or the Bauhaus lamp. The Bauhaus was also an educational center which serves as a model even today. World-renowned artists like Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe taught there. The film draws a picture of this singular institution of modernism - from revolutionary beginnings after the end of World War I to disintegration and emigration, covering subsequent careers as well as the involvement of some Bauhaus members in national socialist Germany. These episodes are remembered by former Bauhaus students of both sexes, most of them being featured through archival footage. This comprehensive critical account of the artistic and political aims of Bauhaus in a film portrait gives insight into the essence of Bauhaus principles, the conflicts that lead to relocation from Weimar to Dessau, the disbanding of the school during the Nazi era, the construction work in the young state of Israel, and the development of the Bauhaus myth in the USA.

To this day it is considered the primordial cell of modern architecture and design - the Bauhaus. But "Bauhaus" doesn't just mean the cubic white house with flat roof, the steel pipe chair, or the Bauhaus lamp. The Bauhaus was also an educational center which serves as a model even today. World-renowned artists like Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe taught there. The film draws a picture of this singular institution of modernism - from revolutionary beginnings after the end of World War I to disintegration and emigration, covering subsequent careers as well as the involvement of some Bauhaus members in national socialist Germany. These episodes are remembered by former Bauhaus students of both sexes, most of them being featured through archival footage. This comprehensive critical account of the artistic and political aims of Bauhaus in a film portrait gives insight into the essence of Bauhaus principles, the conflicts that lead to relocation from Weimar to Dessau, the disbanding of the school during the Nazi era, the construction work in the young state of Israel, and the development of the Bauhaus myth in the USA.

Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most successful conductor in the history of classical music. Many of those recordings - of Italian opera, of Wagner and Richard Strauss, of Sibelius, Beethoven and Brahms - are treasured by music lovers around the world. Yet, even at the peak of his fame, his performances were variously criticised for being too opulent, too manicured, lacking warmth or spiritual depth. 　　This musical profile explores the many paradoxes in the life and music of this controversial figure, who forged his international reputation in London with the Philharmonia Orchestra shortly after the end of the Second World War and went on to reign supreme in the classical music world during his three decades with the Berlin Philharmonic. The film also examines Karajan's belief in the visual power of music, and his determination to leave behind a substantial legacy of music on film. 　　Karajan was famous not only for his music, but also his glittering off-duty moments on the ski slopes, piloting his own jet, sailing his yacht and driving top-of-the-range fast cars. Yet, at the same time, he was a solitary man with few friends, who drew his strength from long walks in the Austrian mountains. 　　In this feature-length profile, the first ever made about Karajan for BBC Television, those who worked closely with Karajan, including singers Placido Domingo and Jessye Norman, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, conductors Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sir Neville Marriner and flautist Sir James Galway, speak of his almost magical power as a conductor and the reality that lay behind the Karajan myth.

Over twenty-five years after his death in July 1989, the controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan remains an enigma. He was the most successful conductor in the history of classical music. Many of those recordings - of Italian opera, of Wagner and Richard Strauss, of Sibelius, Beethoven and Brahms - are treasured by music lovers around the world. Yet, even at the peak of his fame, his performances were variously criticised for being too opulent, too manicured, lacking warmth or spiritual depth. 　　This musical profile explores the many paradoxes in the life and music of this controversial figure, who forged his international reputation in London with the Philharmonia Orchestra shortly after the end of the Second World War and went on to reign supreme in the classical music world during his three decades with the Berlin Philharmonic. The film also examines Karajan's belief in the visual power of music, and his determination to leave behind a substantial legacy of music on film. 　　Karajan was famous not only for his music, but also his glittering off-duty moments on the ski slopes, piloting his own jet, sailing his yacht and driving top-of-the-range fast cars. Yet, at the same time, he was a solitary man with few friends, who drew his strength from long walks in the Austrian mountains. 　　In this feature-length profile, the first ever made about Karajan for BBC Television, those who worked closely with Karajan, including singers Placido Domingo and Jessye Norman, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, conductors Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sir Neville Marriner and flautist Sir James Galway, speak of his almost magical power as a conductor and the reality that lay behind the Karajan myth.

自二十世纪八十年代起，我们就听说，在亚马孙雨林，每年都有比利时面积大小的区域遭到破坏。那里的每一棵树都是不可替代的，而每一颗树的消失，都会导致许多难以想象的植物和动物走向死亡。不过若是以这种速度发展，那么现在亚马孙雨林应该完全消失了…但是87%的雨林地区仍然完好无损。我们全都被骗了吗？这部纪录片将带着这个问题以及之前从未提出的其他问题，解开萦绕在亚马孙雨林周围的一些谜团。