Death By Design

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Production
1995, France
Original language
French
Running time
01:10:00
Genre
docudrama
Topic
biology
Directed by
Peter Friedman, Jean-François Brunet
Written by
Peter Friedman, Jean-François Brunet
Produced by
Films à trois
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There exist a world where death creates life, where suicides without sadness occur billions of times an hour. It is a world of highly sophisticated communication and stunning choreography; of vast depth and endless mystery. Death by Design is a guided tour of the invisible world of cells, told through a collage of metaphors. State-of-the-art microcinematography is playfully intercut with parallel images from life at the human scale : a hundred lighted violins, imploding skyscrapers, pieces of film on the cutting room floor.