SummaryThis documentary uses the undersea world as the locus for a meditation on the troubled intersection of scientific and artistic vision. The one-hour film is based almost entirely on the images of nineteenth century painters, graphic artists, photographers and scientific illustrators, photographed from rare materials in European and American collec... Read More
Directed By:David Lebrun
Written By:David Lebrun
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Generally Favorable
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80
Broad and pleasantly idealistic, and the evident ardor for 150-year-old graphics (especially Dore's Ancient Mariner masterstrokes) is hard to argue with. But is it a movie or the best-designed episode of "Nova" ever?
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A stimulating scientific inquiry that may cause audiences to look at (and think about) the world around them in dramatically different terms.
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Flashing by like images in a flip book, these protean forms appear to dance a cosmic quadrille set to the music of the spheres.
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An incomplete portrait of a complicated man.
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Production Company:
- Night Fire Films
Release Date:Aug 5, 2005
Duration:1 h
Awards
Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
