The Documentary cultural program called the “Arts and Myths” is produced by the Quay Branly Museum, a Franco German cultural channel, Arte, and Program33, a production company located in Paris, France.
Each 26 min documentary film is focused on a particular object and each object serves as an introduction to the culture of the people who created it. The general aim of the series is, each time, to put the artefact at the centre of the film and to have an understanding of it from various points of view: people from the community who produced it, but also artists and researchers from other cultures.
The stories, myths, and other types of knowledge that are attached to each chosen object are particularly important. The films are also very interested in the evocation of the materials used to create the object and the manners artists are working and thinking about their art.
All these different visions about the object or artwork are linked together in the films, creating an informed general view that puts great emphasis on the object’s contemporary presence, and its significance and importance for both the members of its original community as well as for other people of all nations.