The stress of the typical American day can be relentless. Monasteries: A Stressed-Out American's Search For Solitude offers a place to get away from it all. For centuries monks have found peace and solitude in monasteries. Now everyone has access to these places of refuge. Your visit to a monastery can be a refreshing time of prayer or valuable time alone.

In Alone, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Prabal Gurung imagines a woman exploring a forest and discovering herself in solitude for his autumn/winter 2016 collection, playing with textures and prints inspired by tree trunks, bark, and feathers. Naeem Khan draws inspiration from the architecture of New York City, in particular architecture of the Art Deco style. Plus, Christian Siriano takes inspiration from knit artist Sheila Hicks for his Fall collection,...

Located in the south of Malawi, the Zomba Plateau is a unique place that harbors plants found nowhere else in the world. Crisp, cool air caresses your skin as you watch a brilliant sunset from atop this hiker's paradise. The view is spectacular as are the opportunities awaiting you - here you may ride horseback along the lush hills or seek peace and solitude while fly-fishing; also you may bargain shop at the open-air markets, which are a showcase...

A moving documentary on the internationally renowned painter, designated by ARTnews Magazine one of the world's top-ten living artists. This documentary was shot over a period of four years, from 1998 through 2002, Agnes Martin's ninetieth year. Interviews with Martin are inter-cut with shots at work in her studio in Taos, New Mexico, with photographs and archival footage, and with images of her work from over five decades.. It is a venue for Martin...

In Uzes, a mysterious, austere town, four characters who live in seclusion have a simple yet superb life. It is the story of two couples. The first, Judith and Jerome, have been living for ten years in deep, exalted mutual understanding. Both clerics, they have their own ideas on faith. Elisabeth and Simon are the other couple. Their love which is a few months old is shot through with a terrible, inescapable threat: that of their separation. Life...

Martina Gedeck, star of the Academy Award-winning film The Lives Of Others, brings a vivid intensity to this mysterious and riveting tale of survival set in a spectacularly beautiful Austrian mountain landscape. In a tour-de-force performance, Gedeck stars as an unnamed character who suddenly finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall inexplicably surrounds the countryside where she is vacationing. Accompanied...

It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies. GABO & CINEMA is a commendable and well documented contribution to the general study of Gabriel García Márquez’s...

In this coming-of-age tale set in the American South, Moss is an isolated and troubled young man who embarks, on his eighteenth birthday, on an unexpected adventure never to be forgotten. For Moss, whose mother died while delivering him, the day means freedom, especially from his father, whom Moss believes resents him for his very existence. However, it will take more than this milestone day to set him free. During a chance encounter with a woman...

Martin Bonner has just moved to Reno from the East Coast. He's working a new job as a volunteer helping prisoners in their transition to freedom. Travis Holloway, a recently released prisoner, sent back into the world with nothing, also finds it difficult adjusting to his new life. The lives and stories of Martin and Travis begin to converge as they find that they have much in common. Their unlikely friendship blossoms but is put to the test when...