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Films
found one film
shorter than 40 minutes
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Country
“Germany”
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Keywords
“Reproduction (biology)”
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Directors
“Straube, Anna”
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Year of production
“2009”
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Status
“A”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
1
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Region
Western Europe
1
Country
Germany
1
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Keywords
Reproduction (biology)
1
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Science / Technology
1
Directors
Straube, Anna
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Series
not set
1
Country of production
Germany
1
Year of production
2009
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Status
Film
Breeding Cells
2009
39
‘
Directed by
Anna Straube
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Breeding Cells is a film about a reproductive laboratory. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There fertilization is made visible and manipulable on a cellular level while the couples themselves seem to become marginal participants in a process that involves a large number of different professionalized agents and technologies. Recorded in the ward of reproductive medicine at Charite Hospital Berlin, this documentary approaches a scientific environment with an experimental ethnographic gaze. The filmmakers meet an open and quite unexcited "fertility team", who consider themselves assistants of nature. But what is nature in a hospital environment that is highly regulated by procedural methods, medical conventions and conservative laws? Closely describing the routines and moral concerns of the medical staff, the film portrays a time of transition, when biotechnological science fiction is turning into everyday life. This film was produced as part of a video-seminar of Christina von Braun, Kulturwissenschaftliches Seminar, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin.
Western Europe
Reproduction (biology)
Science / Technology