Eclipse

Chit Chat with Oysters(fr)

This film is a portrait of the group as it was more than a year before the release of the album The Dark Side of the Moon. It bears witness to one of the most fruitful periods in its existence. The recording session was filmed with a Coutant camera on 16mm black and white reversal stock. The rushes were found again by the filmmaker and are now preserved at the Cinémathèque française. They have never been seen except for a ten-minute excerpt used in the director's cut of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.

Pink Floyd : The Early Years 1965-1972(en)

Since their inception in 1965, Pink Floyd has put out 15 studio albums. But for many, the Pink Floyd experience went beyond studio albums and into their incredible and legendary live performances. Pink Floyd : The Early Years 1965-1972 features an extensive look at the band during their time with original front man Syd Barrett and the addition of David Gilmour in 1970.

Wish You Weren't Here: The Dark Side of Roger Waters(en)

This is the highly acclaimed full length documentary about Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters and his controversial views against Israel, including saying Israel is worse than Nazi Germany. Waters is widely known as a leader of the BDS Movement, which aims to get artists to boycott Israel. Many prominent world leaders and musicians appear in this film, discussing Waters' contemporary antisemitism.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii(en)

Stylish film of the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd in 1971 performing a concert with no audience, in the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy. There are four editions of the film: the original 1972 version with the concert only (60 min.), a longer 1974 theatrical version (85 min.) featuring the concert interspersed with interviews and footage of Pink Floyd in the studio working on their next album, Dark Side of the Moon, the 2003 Director's Cut which added CGI effects to the 1974 version, then finally the 2016 Blu-ray version which re-arranged the song order of the 2003 version.

Shadow Chasers(fr)

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - among nature's more spectacular phenomena – are a veritable obsession. The film follows 4 of them as they travel incredible distances to witness the last total eclipse of the millennium as it sweeps eastward across Europe to India. At various points along the way enthusiasts Alain Cirou in France, Paul Houde in Austria, Olivier Staiger in Germany and Debasis Sarkar in India offer their impressions of the historic event.

Eclipse(fr)

During the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, Chris Marker documents the French public looking up to the skies, with many of them wearing eclipse glasses.

FEELING EVERY SUNSET(en)

During summer of 2023, a group of friends spent their free time filming a surfing video in Punta Hermosa, Perú. This is the end product.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd(en)

Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.

Astronomical Echoes(pt)

Made by film students, the short film is a tribute and authorial reinterpretation inspired by old Pink Floyd music videos as a psychedelic trip. Using overhead projectors to capture a liquid light show, the narrative is stitched together from a retro photograph, bringing a bit of 60s psychedelia with an air of nostalgia. With the combination of two of the band's songs ("Echoes" and "Astronomy Domine"), the music video brings the concept of the realism and ludic, of the present moment and insanity. Composed of characters who are part of a fictional band and travel through the delight of a mind that lives in the past while resting in reality.

Éclipse 73(fr)

Black Sunfight(en)

The title of this film, which combines flicker effects and comic strip elements, refers to an old belief that each solar eclipse produces a war.

Eclipse(en)

In 1967, a boy from Cambrdige named Syd Barrett, writes one of the most important pop albums ever. After just 3 years he quits music business due to a nervous breakdown, massively heightened by psychedelics abuse, completly eclipsing himself from the rest of the world. This is the story of that Eclipse.

Roger Waters – This is not a drill – Live from Prague(en)

Roger Waters, the creative force behind the golden years of Pink Floyd, presents his first Farewell Tour, “This Is Not A Drill”, Live from Prague, in cinemas around the world. This cinematic extravaganza is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive and will include 20 Pink Floyd and Roger Waters classic songs, including: “Us & Them”, “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here”, and “Is This The Life We Really Want?”. Waters also debuts his new song, “The Bar”. Waters is joined on stage by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Robert Walter, Joey Waronker, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake to deliver an unforgettable performance with a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious planet home.

A Side View of An Eclipse in 99.8% Totality(en)

An ambience-based debut short covering live footage of an eclipse entering near-totality.

Pink Floyd's The Wall: The Ultimate Critical Review(en)

It is now over 25 years since the launch of The Wall. Conceived by Roger Waters as an ambitious double album, a spectacular live show and a ground breaking feature film. The Wall has gone on to achieve iconic status in the history of popular music. This program draws on live performance footage of Pink Floyd and highlights from the film. Also includes extracts from archive interviews with Gerald Scarfe and Alan Parker, the director of The Wall, along with the views of a team of leading musicians and musicologists. This is the independent critical review of a milestone in popular culture, which strips away the prejudice to produce the ultimate retrospective on one of the most important and iconoclastic popular works of the twentieth century. Featuring Highlights From: • Another Brick in The Wall Part 2 • Comfortably Numb • One Of My Turns • Plus Many More!

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon - The Ultimate Critical Review(en)

Take a journey to the trippy side with this examination of the landmark 1973 Pink Floyd work "Dark Side of the Moon," featuring recollections from band members about the writing and recording of the album. Vintage concert footage and reflections by friends and colleagues of the band combine to present an illuminating history of one of rock music's most influential albums.

Sonnenfinsternis(de)

Educational short film about the solar eclipse

Sonnenfinsternis(de)

Educational short film about the solar eclipse

The Yellow Bank(zh)

A short documentary that captures the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, The Yellow Bank takes you on a contemplative boat ride across the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki, who lived and worked in Shanghai nine years earlier, uses the eclipse as a catalyst to explore the way weather, light, and sound affect the urban architectural environment during this extremely rare phenomenon.

Black Suns: An Astrophysics Adventure(en)

BLACK SUNS: AN ASTROPHYSICS ADVENTURE is a documentary about chasing eclipses and science dreams. It chronicles the lives of two globetrotting African American astrophysicists, Dr. Alphonse Sterling and Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, as they follow the two solar eclipses that occurred in 2012. Dr. Alphonse Sterling of NASA, stationed in Japan, had early success in the US, but left his home country to further cultivate his wide-ranging interests. Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi of the Florida Institute of Technology, is a scientist who beat the odds of poverty, and a poor early education, to get where he is today. The film is hosted by award-winning cultural astronomer Dr. Jarita Holbrook.