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South Florida PBS (WPBT, WXEL, and Health Channel) is thrilled to announce that Leonardo da Vinci – A film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon will premiere on WPBT Today, November 18th at 8PM, and on Thursday, November 21st at 8PM on WXEL.
The film, which explores the life and work of the 15th century polymath Leonardo da Vinci, is Burns’s first non-American subject. It also marks a significant change in the team’s filmmaking style, which includes using split screens with images, video and sound from different periods to further contextualize Leonardo’s art and scientific explorations. LEONARDO da VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired future generations, and it finds in his soaring imagination and profound intellect the foundation for a conversation we are still having today: what is our relationship with nature and what does it mean to be human.
The musician and composer Caroline Shaw recorded original music for the film performed by Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion and Roomful of Teeth. The voice of Leonardo is read by the Italian actor Adriano Giannini. Keith David serves as the film’s narrator.
Set against the rich and dynamic backdrop of Renaissance Italy, at a time of skepticism and freethinking, regional war and religious upheaval, LEONARDO da VINCI brings the artist’s towering achievements to life through his prolific personal notebooks, primary and secondary accounts of his life, and on-camera interviews with modern scholars, artists, engineers, inventors, and admirers.
“No single person can speak to our collective effort to understand the world and ourselves,” said Ken Burns. “But Leonardo had a unique genius for inquiry, aided by his extraordinary skills as an artist and scientist, that helps us better understand the natural world that we are part of and to appreciate more fully what it means to be alive and human.”
The film weaves together an international group of experts, as well as others influenced by Leonardo, who continue to find a connection between his artistic and scientific explorations and life today. As the filmmaker and Leonardo admirer Guillermo del Toro says at the beginning of the film, “the modernity of Leonardo is that he understands that knowledge and imagination are intimately related.”
Those without access to South Florida PBS can watch all our programming live on our websites using the links below:
WPBT Live streaming can be viewed here: www.wpbt2.org/live-tv/
WXEL Live streaming can be viewed here: www.wxel.org/live-tv/
DA VINCI: AN IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCE:
After enjoying the premiere of the documentary, we invite you to join us at DA VINCI – An Immersive Art Experience which launched at our flagship WXEL Boynton Beach studios earlier this month. This exhibition, paired with the documentary creates a fully comprehensive educational experience sure to delight all audiences. Open through April of 2025, this unique exhibition, arriving directly from Amsterdam, will transport participants into the visionary world of Leonardo da Vinci. Visitors will journey back to Renaissance Italy through groundbreaking, state-of-the-art immersive technology that brings Da Vinci’s masterpieces, inventions, and brilliant mind to life. This extraordinary exhibition is a must-see for anyone passionate about art, history, and innovation.
For more information on Da Vinci – An Immersive Art Experience, visit: https://www.southfloridapbs.org/davinci/
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