S1.E4 ∙ Reaching for the Sky

Documentary about holocaust in Lithuania and the story of Lithuanian holocaust survivors of an escape tunnel they dug.

A journey in time. Once a cosmopolitan city and religious and cultural melting pot, the former Jerusalem of the Balkans (Thessaloniki) experienced its decline in the 20th century. A shock that defines the city to this day.

The spectacular reconstruction of the fire, which, in July 64, ravaged the capital of the Roman Empire, and caused thousands of victims, under the reign of Nero, is only the starting point for wandering through the Rome of the 1st century.

E V O is a visually daring documentary look at evolutionary theory that comes off like a university course in paleobiology as taught by Marshall McLuhan." Monday Magazine Festival Screenings: - The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam - 2002 - European Media Arts Festival, Germany -2003 - The Hot Docs ! International Documentary Festival - 2003 - The Vancouver International Film Festival - 2002 - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - 2003 E V O is a feature digital essay on questions of Evolution and Consciousness and features eminent Evolutionist/Oxford Professor/Author Dr. Richard Dawkins. "A playful, fiercely intelligent exploration of the history and future of evolutionary theory and its impact on human society...Packed with striking concepts and intricately composed imagery, E V O, hums with energy and insight." Vancouver International Film Festival - Elan Mastai E V O - a philosophical, whimsical, radical investigation. Including imagery created with hacked C.G. software, inflections of artificial life algorithms and fractal generators. E V O - a study and reflection on the history and future of evolutionary theory, its meaning to humans, with a focus on the question of contingency as argued by Naturalist Stephen J. Gould in his best seller "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".