Quand homo sapiens faisait son cinéma
details
- Production
- 2015, France
- Original language
- French
- Running time
- 00:52:00
- Genre
- documentary
- Topic
- archeology
- Directed by
- Pascal Cuissot et Marc Azéma
- Written by
- Pascal Cuissot et Marc Azéma
- Produced by
- ARTE France - MC4 - Passé Simple / Diff : ARTE
Quand Homo sapiens faisait son cinema takes the spectator on the first tracks of the cinematograph through 20.000 years of palaeolithic art. Foolish proposal? Not at all! A new reading of the rock art paintings and engravings reveals numerous cases of decomposition of the movement of animals represented on walls, a fundamental stage of animated film.
Towards the end of the Palaeolithic an incredible mechanism which seems to create an animation with a couple o images will even make its appearance. The experts of the cinema are shattered. But that's not all. The cavemen even devoted to the graphic story: a way of telling stories with sounds and images, in immersion as in cinema, but without settling the spectator in a chair... An amazing investigation down to the heart of the mankind's cultural DNA.

Selected at Pariscience 2015
See the showing : Thursday 01st October 2015 from 14h15 to 15h45