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A collection of 5-10 minute experiences during which you will discover the great masterpieces of European painting through immersive documentary narratives which call upon your senses and bring a fresh perspective on art.

Thanks to virtual reality headsets, you find yourself immersed inside the art work, discovering its story, the painter’s intentions and pictorial choices… These journeys through the works of Gauguin, Bosch, Munch, Bruegel, Manet, Velasquez… will astound you.

Through a series of 360° VR videos, Art Stories 360° offers an immersive and unique experience at the heart of the most beautiful sites that marked European art history from Fontainebleau to the Alhambra by way of Aachen.

The series – presented by Andreas Fies – invites the audience on a spectacular and enjoyable journey in these beautiful landmarks. These videos will be supported by a documentary series of 5x43 minutes that will be broadcast later on Arte.

A 4K special in which we dive for the first time by night into a feeding frenzy of 700 sharks in Polynesia, the largest concentration of sharks in the world. Filmed with very ambitious camera gear, this documentary in virtual reality will reveal unprecedented social behavior of sharks.

The film will demonstrate that, contrary to what science said up to now, sharks do not hunt alone. They are actually organized with a leader, have strategies and collaborate among one another. An organization that resembles a pack of wolves or lions. A three year expedition will show unique behaviors of predators and prey, shot in an entirely natural setting, using no artefacts such as feeding, which is also a first. Discover incredible scenes of hunting, like in a savannah wildlife film, in which fifty sharks team up to capture one fish, and prey that sometimes manages to outsmart sharks.

Discover some of the most beautiful places on earth in 360°: The Mont Blanc, the Majestic Mountains of marble of Michelangelo, Winter in Venice and the Bay of Biscaya…

Screen online through the ARTE 360° aps available here

From coral reefs to sharks by way of the northern polar ice, diver and photographer Joe Bunni invites us to delve into the most beautiful underwater landscapes. The user will discover the thrill of diving in a 360° universe through 5 short films.

Joe Bunni immerses us in the perfect diving experience from his perspective. This voyage beneath the sea feels like flying! But this fascinating universe is fragile and Joe intends to alert us to the dangers of pollution.

In less than a minute and thirty seconds, delve into the fascinating universe of science through beautiful, mysterious and surprising images! A series where esthetics will make you experience the pleasure of discovery.

Sciencible is a series of 30 episodes full of surprises and anecdotes that shed a new light on science… Immerse yourself in the fascinating universe of sciences thanks to surprising images – just like pieces of art can transport their audience and beckon them to dig deeper.

How to become the perfect literary con artist in 8 lessons. Some of the finest writings in recent decades have turned out to be scams that duped the public and critics alike...

From Hitler’s diaries to a never-before-published text by Rimbaud, to a false bestseller, the series shows the mechanisms behind these true stories that all ended up running aground.

From its beginnings on the streets of New York City, breaking has experienced a meteoric rise to fame, establishing itself as the style of street dance for young people around the world.

40 years after it first appeared in the Bronx block-party scene, this is the epic story of breaking, as told by its biggest stars - between inner-city violence and reconciliation, mind-blowing acrobatics and artistic expression - from New York City to Seoul, Berlin and Paris.
 
With MR. FREEZE, DOZE GREEN Rock Steady Crew, CRAZY LEGS Rock Steady Crew, BENJI Division Alpha, JUNIOR Wanted Posse, MOUNIR Vagabond Crew, STORM Battle Squad, and HONG 10 Drifterz.

This animation series presents some of the greatest financial swindles of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The films take a humorous look at the imagination and unswerving nerve of the greatest financial scams all over the world, as well as the naivety of many of their contemporaries. Louis Einricht and his revolutionary gasoline, Charles Ponzi and his pyramid, Victor Lustig who flogged the Eiffel Tower, John Darwin and life insurance, and others.

How far does a prawn travel before ending up in a supermarket? How much time goes by between the time a cow arrives and the time its meat is refrigerated in the form of a steak?

Focusing on industrially produced goods, "Product"'s subjective camera accesses various manufacturing chains in different countries. Combining a fascination for the processes with a form of unveiling, the series documents the various stages of manufacture, and sets out to meet the communities and discover the technologies involved in them. "Product" aims to decode a globalised industry in which the end products mask the realities of their manufacture. 

An unsettling journey to the heart of the infinitely small: decay. It is carried out using a microscope usually used for medical purposes, which, when linked to a Smartphone, enables images to be enlarged 80 to 1,200 times.

This series plunges us into the strange and fascinating living world that is born from death, and that inhabitants our daily lives. The story, a blend of science and poetry, is told by French actor Denis Lavant, and uses exceptional images to reveal everything that is beautiful, striking and mysterious about decomposition, in THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING. Bacteria, dendritic cells, collembola, yeast ... A composition on decomposition!

The job-hunt jungle, the fringe economy, the hassles of switching employers almost as often as you change your socks – life reduced to the net hourly wage... A comical chronicle of the world of temping.

Seb and Elise are adventurers, on the lookout for the slightest job. They get brief glimpses of what goes on in the world of work, when company doors swing open for an instant. But then the door slams shut and they’re outside, awaiting their next contract. 
Supermarket checker, pizza deliverer, “interactive” actor, sorter at the recycling center… Their temporary jobs are tedious and/or absurd, their bosses are toxic, and their customers are obnoxious.
Worse yet, it’s all true!