Humanity's Footsteps, Season 2, Episode 9: In the Footsteps of the Traveler Agnès Molia and Clémence Lutz ; Christie Molia

Format:

Video

Series:

Humanity's Footsteps

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France.

Local Subjects:

France.

Genre:

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file) sound, color

Place of Publication:

2013

Language Note:

French with English subtitles

System Details:

video file

Biography/History:

Agnès Molia: Within the scope of the 50th anniversary of UNESCO and its famous World Heritage Listing, Agnès discovered Egypt and started rubbing shoulders with archaeologists. She then directed several movies for the TV channel France 3 in Egypt as well as in Petra, Jordan. Her new passion for archaeology empowered her to create and direct a first 30x26’ series for ARTE FRANCE, titled “Sur nos Traces” [Heritage title: “Humanity’s Footsteps”], which retraces the history of France from paleolithic times to the Middle Ages, based on the archaeological discoveries made on French territory. A second 30x26’ ARTE FRANCE series, titled “Archaeologoical Investigations”, led her to travel the world to highlight the latest discoveries that cast a new, original light on the greatest sites of world heritage. Agnès also supervised the making of 90-minute docu-dramas for the TV channel France 5, such as “Schnidi, the ghost of the Neolithic”, “In the footsteps of the Nabataeans”, which she co-directed, and, for ARTE FRANCE, “The Champollions”, “Inca Empire: a giant revealed”, as well as historical movies such as “Napoleon-Metternich: The Beginning of the End” and “Napoleon, Destiny and Death”. In the years since anthropology became a new field of filmmaking for Agnès. she has also produced and directed three additional series for ARTE FRANCE: “Rituals of the World” (2018), in 20x26’, “Lands of Women” in 5x52’, and “Live”, also 5x52’. Agnès Molia is also known for “Too Hot to Work” (2023). Clémence Lutz: With TSVP, Clémence worked as a journalist and film director, specializing in cultural projects and cultural heritage documentaries. She served as deputy editor-in-chief and co-director for two ARTE documentary series – “Archaeological investigations” and “Sur nos traces” [titled “Humanity’s Footsteps” in Heritage]. She also co-authored ~twenty reports for the France 3 cultural heritage program “Roots and Wings”, and served as a researcher and documentarian in iconography, audiovisual archives, and rights negotiations.

Summary:

With the arrival of the Roman Empire in Gaul, the Gauls experienced an explosion in the means of transport, a new productive force which profoundly changed society there. More goods began to circulate annually, and, along with that increased circulation of goods, the “circulation” of information, beliefs and know-how also expanded. Travelers, bearing these economic and cultural riches to far-flung places in the Empire and beyond, as well as places in Gaul, thereby actively participated in the unity and richness of this era—the time of what we should call a “Gallo-Roman civilization.”

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