Embassy of the Free Mind

Dec 12, 2024

1h 34m

★ 9.0

UNESCO Memory of the World

Overview

UNESCO Memory of the World: Explore the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica’s new home with 25,000+ rare books on alchemy, hermetica & mysticism at the Embassy of the Free Mind museum, set in Amsterdam’s historic canal mansion, the House with the Heads.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Artoldo Pictures

Embassy of the Free Mind Trailers

Cast

Self

Joost Ritman

Self

Jasha van der Wel

Self

Lucinda Martin

Self

Jozef Ritman

Self

Corey Andrews

Self

Kyra Gerber

Self

Aricia Ritman

Self

Derek Lomas

Self

Natalie Koch

Self

Rachel Ritman

Self

Han Bakker

Self

Sem Kramer

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the still-intact museum in 1988: ancient Greco-Roman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization, as well as Buddhist sculpture that was said to have mythology--the art of Gandhara, Bamiyan, and Shotorak among them. After the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, some seventy percent of the contents of the museum was destroyed, stolen, or smuggled overseas to Japan and other countries. The movement to return these items is also touched upon. The footage in this video represents that only film documentation of the Kabul Museum ever made.

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