S4.E21 ∙ Profits from Punishment

James Fox investigates our complex and changing relationship with the image in the modern age.

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. From missing icons, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer retraces the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.

-"Techno Story" is a 5-part documentary that tells the crazy adventure of raves and techno music in general. It tells its genesis, its golden age and its repression. Interviews with eminent characters of the time (Jeff Mills, Jerome Pacman, Laurent Garnier), and also with Manu Casana who tells his own vision of the movement, with a fair speech and focused on the future.

Gothic architecture was born in France and over the course of three centuries swept almost all of Europe, including Bohemia.