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In this video from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the curators Ruth Hibbard and Lydia Caston examine how depictions of witches have evolved over ... Show more

Hags, seductresses, feminist icons – how gender dynamics manifest in witches | Aeon Videos

An entrancing whirlwind of spoken-word poetry and avant-garde original music, this performance from April 2023 features the inimitable US artist Laurie ... Show more

Waiting for the Barbarians and Ithaca | Psyche Films

Could extraterrestrial technology be lurking in our backyard – on the Moon, Mars or in the asteroid belt? These scientists think it’s worth a look.

In this delightful story narrated by David Attenborough, BBC producer John Paling discovers a baby squirrel abandoned in a forest and decides to raise it ... Show more

One man’s quest to save an orphaned squirrel, as narrated by David Attenborough | Aeon Videos

In Taiga, the Finland-based media artist Leena Lehti crafts a visceral ‘elegy’ to the boreal forests of her region. Watch the full film here: Images carved into film form a haunting elegy for a disappearing slice of Earth | Aeon Videos

Psyche : Sent to boarding school, a boy conjures up a friend to soothe his distress. Watch the full film here: Sent to boarding school, a boy conjures up a friend to soothe his distress | Psyche Films

In this video, artist Leena Lehti crafts a visceral ‘elegy’ to the boreal forests of Finland which are being transformed due to warming temperatures. Images carved into film form a haunting elegy for a disappearing slice of Earth | Aeon Videos

Meet the man who faked his own death for a clean start. Watch it exclusively on Aeon: Why Bennie tried to disappear, and what happened when he was found decades later | Aeon Videos

Aeon Media is looking for a part-time Editorial Assistant (3 days/week) to join our Melbourne team and support the editorial operations of our digital ... Show more

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Psyche : After losing her legs, Marie-Hélène finds freedom in scars and in dance. 🦿 Watch the full film here: Grounded (Enracinée) | Psyche Films

This World Health Day, we’re resharing our documentary on Ireland’s mother and baby homes. While advocating for better maternal care globally ... Show more

The staggering cruelty of Ireland’s Church-run ‘mother and baby homes’ | Aeon Videos

This video magnifies moth and butterfly wings up to 50,000 times their original size to bring to life their hidden ‘topography’ ... Show more

Butterflies become unrecognisable landscapes when viewed under electron microscopes | Aeon Videos

In this short film, Vova and Roma move through the kinds of aimless days you might expect from two early-adolescent boys nearing the end of their summer break ... Show more

Two Ukrainian boys’ summer unfolds just miles from the frontlines | Aeon Videos

Can monumental ‘ice stupas’ help remote Himalayan villages survive? Watch the full film here: Can monumental ‘ice stupas’ help remote Himalayan villages survive? | Aeon Videos

Psyche : Beauty is woven into everyday life for the quilters of the American West. 🪡✂️ Watch it here: Beauty is woven into everyday life for the quilters of the American West | Psyche Films

In this short, Bennie Wint recalls how he fled his unfulfilling life of addiction in South Carolina and gave himself the rare opportunity to get clean and ... Show more

Why Bennie tried to disappear, and what happened when he was found decades later | Aeon Videos

This film documents how locals of Zanskar, a Himalayan desert valley in northern India, are creating artificial glaciers that can preserve water for spring and ... Show more

Can monumental ‘ice stupas’ help remote Himalayan villages survive? | Aeon Videos

The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy. Watch the full film on Aeon: The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy | Aeon Videos

The short film ‘Voices of the Pacific Flyway’ documents how three human communities on North America’s west coast interact with – and are connected by – the ... Show more

Join seabirds as they migrate, encountering human communities along the way | Aeon Videos

To capture grief in poetry is to describe the ineffable. Here’s why Tennyson did it best. #WorldPoetryDay #Poetryforlife #21March To capture grief in poetry is to describe the ineffable. Here’s why Tennyson did it best | Aeon Videos

Glimpse into the daily life of a female shaman who hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists in the Peruvian Amazon. Watch it here: For an Amazonian female shaman, ayahuasca ceremonies are a rite and a business | Aeon Videos

Psyche : ‘I always thought I could be an asocial primate. I cannot.’ How microbes helped James connect with the human-scale world ... Show more

How small creatures helped James connect with the human-scale world | Psyche Films

In this exquisite stop-motion animation crafted from wood and wool, an anxious puppet journeys into the foggy unknown. A wool puppet’s stirring journey from safety into the great unknown | Psyche Films

If you’ve got tickets to our event in Melbourne next week, ‘The limits of civility’, here are some reading resources to get you thinking ahead of the ... Show more

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In this lushly animated short film, two traditional Indian storytellers present their own versions of a millennia-old Hindu myth. Two variants of a Hindu myth come alive in an animated ode to Indian storytelling | Aeon Videos