Philippe Petit isimli Fransız ip cambazının 1974 yılında İkiz Kulelerin arasına çektiği çelik halat üzerinde yürüyüşünü konu alan film aksiyon ögeleriyle süslenmiş bir biyografi filmi aslında. Petit’i ünlü aktör Joseph Gordon-Levitt canlandırmakta.
İp cambazı Philippe Petit, Fransa’da bir dişçide inşaat haberini okuduğundan beri İkiz Kuleler arasına tel gerip yürümek istemiştir ancak daha kuleler ortada yoktur bile! Petit, arkadaşlarıyla kafa kafaya verir ve aylarca plan yapar, sonunda da 1974’te, 24 yaşında bu ‘sanatsal suç’u başarıyla işler.
Eve,şoven bir toplumda dikiş tutturmaya hatta topluma kök söktürmeye çalışan bir avukat.Ama tüm bu hırslı çabalamaları onu delirtiyor.Modern dünyada kadın vücudunda yaşamanın çetrefilliğini resmeden Kadın Sapkınlıkları kışkırtıcı bir kadın filmi...Eve,bir yandan kendi hayatına anlam vermeye çalışmak,öte yandan da kleptomani sorunları olan kız kardeşiyle ilgilenmek zorunda.Kusursuzluk ile delilik arasında bulanık bir yerde duran Eve,Swinton’ın performansıyla yükseliyor.
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the frog will sing only for him, and just croak for the talent agent and the audience in the theater he's spent his life savings on.
Mickey is ringmaster of a circus for orphans. Donald has a trained sea lion act, and does a bit of juggling himself. Mostly, though, he fights with a baby sea lion who keeps stealing both the fish and the show. Donald then finds himself and Mickey in an unrehearsed high wire act, which kicks into high gear when one of the orphans electrifies the wire. They end by doing a high dive into the seals' tank.
One of the most exciting and memorable stories in the history of the World Trade Towers is that of Philippe Petit, a French man who walked a tightrope between the massive monuments in 1974. Narrated by Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, this is an animated adaptation of the lyrical Caldecott Award-winning book by Mordecai Gerstein. Directed and animated by Michael Sporn, with music by Michael Bacon (of the Bacon Brothers).
Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on the Sept. It was on this occasion that Philippe Grandrieux directed this short film for the Seven antenna, consisting of an interview with Nico Papatakis and the reading of excerpts from Jean Genet's text, “The Tightrope walker”, read by the actress Ann-Gisel Glass.
The story of the famous high-wire patriarch Karl Wallenda and how he gets his first circus job in 1920's Germany performing handstands on the high-wire with the Louis Weitzmann Troupe.
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara; Tarzan, Sahib, and their elephant; Marco's sword-balancing act; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.