All Episodes of The Owl's Legacy
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Season 1
7.6/1021 votesDemocracy, or the City of Dreams
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/14/1989
What exactly does the word mean “democracy” mean? Does it designates the ancient city-state or our contemporary political systems? What are the analogies or, on the contrary, the radical differences between realities separated by more than twenty centuries? Are certain functions suitable for all civilizations? Τhe third episode of Chris Marker’s legendary documentary series – which first aired on British state television in 1991 but remained in the dark for decades – returns to classical antiquity to make a bold parallel, familiarizing 21st-century audiences with a concept of the commons that seems primordial yet innovative, reinventing itself in every single manifestation.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1017 votes
Mathematics, or the Realm of Signs
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/19/1989
The geometrical space and the mathematical language constitute a universal legacy the Greeks have bequeathed us with. How do we articulate its perfect logic to the complexity of contemporary sciences?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/1017 votes
Logomachy, or the Root of Words
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/20/1989
All the meanings of "logos" originated from a small territory between Ephesus and Patmos. According to Aristotle the human animal fights with a specific weapon: speech... Logos' destiny would it be the "logomachy"? The fight over words.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1019 votes
Music, or the Inner Space
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/21/1989
A cross between imitation and creation, the search for the beautiful and harmonious animates the artists' personal quests - including with cutting-edge technology - as well as it serves great collective schemes - religions in particular.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1016 votes
Cosmogony, or the Use of the World
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/1989
This reflection over creation - divine cosmogony and man's creativity - takes us from the Greek statuary art to the Acropolis' Korai on show in Tokyo. This takes us on towards the Gorgon - a mirror of death.
Director: Unknown
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- 7.9/1018 votes
Misogyny, or Desire's Traps
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/26/1989
The Greek conception of sexuality was very different from ours. What did the Greek think of desire in a world where heterosexuality and homosexuality - far from being opposites - were models of existence that were different but compatible?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1017 votes
Philosophy, or the Owl's Triumph
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/28/1989
Around the metaphorical - but also very real - figure of the owl; entwined reflections upon the place of thought in daily existence and public action - sometimes with and sometimes against the Greek legacy.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown