Happy birthday, Arte! For its 30th anniversary, the Franco-German channel offers its viewers a tour of Europe, broken down into various themes (climate change, immigration, mobility, digital, biodiversity, sustainable agriculture), all under the prism of aerial views, dynamic infographics embedded in the landscape, and meetings with committed citizens, in their environment.
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Italian director Andreas Pichler, who coordinated the documentary series, justifies this bias: “It was essential for me to adopt a pan-European perspective: I wanted people to finally see Europe as a whole. Of course, that doesn’t mean there aren’t stark differences between nations, but this continent is far more interconnected than you might think. »
Subject Gallery
The six parts of the series fly over Norway, the glaciers of the Alps, the Balkans, with the aim of embracing the community of destiny of a Europe jostled by the Covid-19 pandemic, then the war in Ukraine.
The gallery of subjects opens in Greece, in the country’s gas supply control center, before widening the view by means of satellite images, where the flows of both tankers and LNG carriers are superimposed in the seas of Europe, and the network of pipelines on the continent.
Show global picture behind local anchor
A zoom on Denmark enters the complexity of a country which has bet on wind power, but which is not yet able to store its energy. It exports to its neighbors when the wind is blowing, but imports from Germany and Sweden when the weather is calm.
The rest follows the same logic: showing the global image behind the local anchorage, through the transport or telecommunications nodes. Roads are neural networks, rivers are veins. We measure the pulse of the economy, take the fever of carbon emissions. Europe is showing itself… organic.