Breeding cells, directed by Anna Straube ... [et al.]
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Breeding cells, directed by Anna Straube ... [et al.]
Language
ger
Characteristic
videorecording
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Breeding cells
Medium
electronic resource
Oclc number
849668788
Responsibility statement
directed by Anna Straube ... [et al.]
Runtime
39
Series statement
Ethnographic video online, volume 2Student films
Summary
Breeding Cells is a film from the laboratory of reproduction. 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 reproductional 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 simply assistants of nature. But what is nature in a hospital environment that is highly regulated by procedural methods, doctors conventions and conservative laws? Closely describing the routines and moral concerns of the medical staff, the film is portraying a transition time, when biotechnological science fiction is turning into everyday life
Target audience
general
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