Early Cultures
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5 programs
Tassili N'Ajjer
Prehistoric Sites
Grimes Graves
Working on the Evidence
The Origins of Art in France
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Prehistory to AD 400
Film - history's newest art form - reaches back to some of the earliest images ever created by human beings. The two films which frame this first section of the Roland Collection's history of art set the keynote of the collection: art on film, and film as art.
For the particular effects achieved in Tassili N'Ajjer, the director, JD Lajoux, booked what was then the only camera of its kind in Europe (being used at the time in the filming of the feature The Longest Day), and traveled on camel-backto the Sahara, with all equipment, including that necessary for `bouncing' natural daylight in the absence of power supply.
Castlerigg Stone Circle
From the program 'Prehistoric Sites'
While the direction of these and other films in the Roland Collection is arresting and dramatic, it illuminates, rather than competes with, the art shown - neolithic rock paintings of animals, carved stone effigies, decorative artefacts, coins, cromlechs. These images are the antecedents of all the art of succeeding centuries. Bound up with lost social beliefs and customs, they yet retain in themselves aesthetic force and eloquence.