Iara Lee

Iara Lee's compelling documentary chronicles how sound technology has eclipsed traditional modes of performance in much recent pop music. Without passing aesthetic judgments, Lee focusses on how the manipulation of sound has allowed d.j.s and sound mixers to fill the spot once reserved for composers, sometimes with impressive creativity (The New Yorker)

Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we approach the 21st century. It takes off from the idea that mankind's effort to tap the power of Nature has been so successful that a new world is suddenly emerging,an artificial reality. Virtual Reality, digital and biotechnology, plastic surgery and mood-altering drugs promise seemingly unlimited powers to our bodies, and our selves...

An investigation around the world about art as a possible instrument of peace. From Iran, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting back the regime, to Burma, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to Brazil, where musicians reach out to slum kids, and ending in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard.

a film that will examine the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where--three decades after the world's most infamous nuclear disaster- illegal hiking adventurers aka "stalkers", extreme sports afficionados, artists, tour companies have begun to explore anew the mysterious, ghostly, post-apocalyptic landscape.