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Quand homo sapiens faisait son cinéma

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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.

Pariscience

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