DNA Dreams
details
- Production
- 2013, Netherlands
- Original language
- Chinese
- Running time
- 00:54:00
- Genre
- documentary
- Topic
- future, research, society, ethics, biology
- Directed by
- Bregtje van der Haak
- Written by
- Bregtje van der Haak
- Produced by
- © VPRO - TimeDoc
The film follows Zhao Bowen, high school drop-out and leader of the Cognitive Genomics Group, who uses some of the most powerful computers in the world to analyze the DNA of 2,000 highly gifted children. His goal: to find the genetic basis of intelligence. At BGI’s cloning lab, his colleague Lin Lin produces pigs in all shapes and forms. Deeply in love with her work, Lin Lin feels ‘like a mother’ to the piglets that are conceived under her microscope. Some have been manipulated genetically to shine a fluorescent light in the dark. The documentary shows us some traces of a future that is already here and takes a closer look at ‘data driven science’ as a fundamental shift in the global production of knowledge.
Selected at Pariscience 2013 - Student Award
See the showing : Saturday 05th October 2013 from 15h45 to 17h15, Monday 07th October 2013 from 18h00 to 19h30, Saturday 12th October 2013 from 14h30 to 16h00