Proteus
Documentary
(59
min.)
2004 Sundance Film Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival
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This
animated documentary explores the 19th century’s engagement with the
undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The
central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who
found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and almost mystical fusion of
science and art. The key to Haeckel’s vision was a tiny undersea
organism called the radiolarian. They are among the earliest forms of
life. He discovered, described, classified and painted four thousand
species of these one-celled creatures. In their intricate geometric
skeletons, Haeckel saw all the future possibilities of organic and created
form. 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival |
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