S1.E11 ∙ Rise of the Skyscraper

A musical narrative documentary about what happens when a deaf child joins a stage troupe of hearing children.

The documentary gives a profound insight into the colorful life of pavement artists worldwide. We get to know this ancient art form through the eyes of artists with very different social backgrounds, but united by their passion for street painting. What drives these people to create temporary art that will vanish after the first rain? The artists in this film range from traditional Madonnari to one of the best-known street painters Edgar Mueller, who makes large 3D paintings. Kurt Wenner, the inventor of 3D pavement art, takes us back to the time he revolutionized the art form in Rome. The documentary is a tribute to the very essence of street creativity, honoring pavement artists all over the world.

Is it OK to throw away the old wedding dress? What do you do with the crystal glasses that nobody wants? A Separation by Karin Ekberg is a tragicomic documentary that portrays the very last acts of a long marriage. A film about the tentative search for a beginning of what - finally, and unfortunately - is over.

Seven stories high and over seven hundred feet long, the Nomadic Museum was built on Pier 54 (against all odds) in New York City to house the stunning Ashes and Snow photo exhibit. Built to travel, utilizing re-usable materials, this cathedral-like museum housed one of the most emotionally stirring photo exhibitions of animal and human interactivity.

Each of them is hand of another; each one is a mirror and reflection of another. They are friends.

Can learning how to speak your ancestral language change a community, liberate a nation? Voices Of The Heart looks at the new Arapaho native immersion school on the remote, Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, through the eyes of Tish Keahna, a Native Meskwaki/Ojibwe mother. She returns to Wind River after thirty years to see how education and growing up on the reservation has changed.