Docs+Science
6 filmów
Film, the Living Record of Our Memory
dir. Inés Toharia
dok2021
Orson Welles once said, ‘Film has a personality, and that personality is self-destructive. The job of the archivist is to anticipate what the film may do — and prevent it.’ The Spanish director’s documentary portrays attempts of saving even just a fraction of the multitude of stories registered on celluloid film.
Read moreFrom the Wild Sea (Fra Det vilde Hav)
dir. Robin Petré
dok2021
Visually sophisticated and poignant, this documentary, or rather poem, honours the silent witnesses of our planet’s past entangled in the network of civilisations of migrants from the primeval ocean. The film is for adult viewers only.
Read moreHenry Glassie: Fieldwork (Henry Glassie: Badania terenowe)
dir. Pat Collins
dok2021
In this hypnotising documentary devoted to Henry Glassie, the director adopts the perspective of the eminent anthropologist, while the viewer unites with the researcher becoming his eyes and ears.
Read moreO, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times (O, Eier sammeln trotz der Zeit)
dir. Pim Zwier
dok2021
Science may be a kind of organised madness. Entire fields of knowledge owe their existence to obsessed scientists, such as Max Schönwetter from Germany. His collection of almost 20 thousand bird eggs is invaluable for Oology.
Read morePleistocene Park
dir. Luke Griswold-Tergis
dok2022
There are many documentaries about the boundary between genius and madness, but this one is definitely among the funniest of them. Luke Tergis follows a bravado attempt to restart the primeval ecosystem of remote Siberia, a return to the state recorded in the fossils of Pleistocene.
Read moreThe Scent of Fear
dir. Mirjam von Arx
dok2021
Mirjam von Arx takes viewers upon a journey to the heart of fear – the underlying cause of all fears. She combines the subjective and objective order to look for answers to the question about what drives human behaviour: humans or their fears?
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