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The Genius of Photography 6: Snap Judgements

Posted on September 30, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

The sixth episode in this series looks at the way photography has been commodified, just like modern art in general has.

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The Genius of Photography 4: Paper Movies

Posted on September 23, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This week’s episode looks at the way photographers found their own terrain on the streets of the cities, the highways and beaches of the post-war world.

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The Genius of Photography 3: Right Time, Right Place

Posted on September 16, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This week’s episode is about the evolution of photojournalism, from its beginnings with the Frenchman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great photographers of the 20th century, up and to the coverage of the aftermath of 9/11.

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We, featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

Posted on September 10, 2011October 20, 2023 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a ‘must see’ 64 minute documentary film. The film examines the widely unregarded worlds of Anthropology and Geopolitics in a very dynamic manner, and is probably stylistically quite unlike any documentary that you have previously seen.

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The Genius of Photography 2: Documents for Artists

Posted on September 9, 2011March 20, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

The second documentary in this BBC series examines the various movements that arose in photography in the first half of the 20th century by focusing on some of the representative workers in the field.

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The Genius of Photography 1: Fixing the Shadows

Posted on September 2, 2011March 19, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This is the first in a series of documentaries tracing the evolution and the various uses of photography, and how it has changed the way we see the world, with some wonderful early examples of the technique.

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First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture – 2

Posted on August 26, 2011October 21, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

In the second series of films about radical ecological architecture we move from the States to see how it is being implemented around the world.

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Buddha With A Thousand Hands (2008)

Posted on August 20, 2011March 4, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries

Video of the China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe, with their lead dancer, Tai Lihua, performing the famous Buddha with a Thousand Hands dance, recorded for German TV in 2008.

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First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture – 1

Posted on August 19, 2011October 21, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

A series of radical films made all over the world about new ideas in building and community, and how we move away from the mess we have only recently created.

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The Day India Burned: Partition

Posted on August 12, 2011March 4, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries

This documentary is about the partition of India, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in modern times, as peoples were divided along communal and religious lines, and turned against each other in a fury of violence.

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