From a prehistoric Quebec to the wonders of our planet, there are still many things to learn this week.
Behind the scenes
Their photographs have traveled the world and allow us to see the world as it is, but as we do not observe it, or very little. Photograph takes us to meet these photographers who travel the globe in search of the unprecedented in order to discover their own story, the one they lead behind and beyond their camera, and the secrets of their most emblematic shots. Whether they highlight conflicts, nature or humans, Anand Varma, Dan Winters, Campbell Addy, Krystle Wright and Muhammed Muheisen are all passionate people who tirelessly cultivate their fascination for their environment, often since childhood. , and even the explosion of their career, which they use to send us a message. The documentary series looks back on the journey of these privileged witnesses to the extraordinary, but above all on the missions they gave themselves so that the public has a better understanding of the current state of the planet and its societies.
If the very Hollywood staging of the documentary series plays a lot in the very classic register of emotions, the fact remains that we can only be captivated by what these photographers have to tell us. This is the case, for example, of the Canadian Paul Nicklen, who no longer needs to be introduced thanks to his work for the National Geographic, and the Mexican Cristina Mittermeier. The couple co-founded the ocean awareness organization SeaLegacy with filmmaker, photographer, musician and activist Andy Mann. The episode of Photograph which is dedicated to them follows them on board their sailboat in Bahamian maritime territory at the moment when they try to approach a drilling station with potential disastrous consequences for the rich local biodiversity. Paul Nicklen talks at length about his many experiences in the field, but the opportunity is also given to Cristina Mittermeier to address her condition as a woman photographer in a generally misogynistic and sexist environment.
Photograph
Disney, from May 8
In distant Quebec
Savoir media is also interested in our planet, and more precisely in the place occupied by Quebec in the prehistoric era. His new documentary series, presented by author Patrick Couture, goes back in time far, far back to explore an unrecognizable province that has nothing to do with what we know about it. So let’s forget for a moment contemporary Canadian geography and the history of European colonization to imagine a sea which covered the urban areas of Ottawa, Montreal and the city of Quebec, unbreathable air and a temperature exceeding 200 degrees Celsius – enough to make you dizzy. Welcome to partly Quebec soil, such as Inukjuak in Nunavik, as old as the creation of the Earth, some 4.5 billion years ago, and at the origin of life. The rocks found there are possibly the oldest in the world, says University of Ottawa professor Jonathan O’Neil in the first episode of The prehistory of Quebec. In addition, he confides that indigenous peoples, with all their knowledge of the field, are essential in the progress of all this research.
All along The prehistory of Quebec, other specialists also take the floor to describe the aquatic creatures that developed there well before the dinosaurs, but also the giant mushrooms and the megafauna that populated the territory. Furthermore, these experts paint a portrait of those who were the first Quebecers.
The prehistory of Quebec
Media information, Monday, 9 p.m. from May 6
Foreign true crime series on platforms
A fiction inspired by real events. Under the Bridge is an adaptation by Quinn Shephard (Not Okay), for the Hulu platform, from the bestselling book of the same name by the recently deceased Canadian Rebecca Godfrey. This returns to the true story of British Columbian Reena Virk, 14, who one day went to join friends at a party and never returned home. The series stars Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), as a policewoman responsible for investigating this enigmatic disappearance, and Riley Keough (Daisy Jones and The Six), who plays author Rebecca Godfrey herself. The duo thus takes viewers into the mysterious world of these teenagers accused of the murder of the character played by the young Vritika Gupta.
For its part, Netflix makes available to its subscribers Bodkincreated by Jez Scharf, another series of true crime, completely fictional, but above all completely offbeat. Direction Ireland, where two American podcast hosts and an investigative journalist from Dublin go to dissect a twenty-year-old case: three people had gone missing in a (completely invented) village. idyllic-looking during the Irish night of the dead, called Samhain in Gaelic tradition. Note that Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth), Siobhán Cullen (The Dry) and Robyn Cara (life) play the roles of this very curious trio…
Under the Bridge
Disney+, from May 8
Bodkin
Netflix, from May 9