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Mary,
For the opening of the de Young Museum here in San Francisco they
played:
"Proteus
A Nineteenth Century Vision
A Film by David Lebrun
60 minutes / color
Release Date: 2004
Copyright Date: 2004
Sale: $390
"The ocean is a wilderness reaching 'round the globe, wilder than a
Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our
cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences."
- Henry David Thoreau, 1864
For the nineteenth century, the world beneath the sea played much the
same role that "outer space" played for the twentieth. The ocean
depths were at once the ultimate scientific frontier and what
Coleridge called "the reservoir of the soul": the place of the
unconscious, of imagination and the fantastic. PROTEUS uses the
undersea world as the locus for a meditation on the troubled
intersection of scientific and artistic vision. The one-hour film is
based almost entirely on the images of nineteenth century painters,
graphic artists, photographers and scientific illustrators,
photographed from rare materials in European and American collections
and brought to life through innovative animation.
The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel
(1834-1919). As a young man, Haeckel found himself torn between
seeming irreconcilables: science and art, materialism and religion,
rationality and passion, outer and inner worlds. Through his
discoveries beneath the sea, Haeckel would eventually reconcile these
dualities, bringing science and art together in a unitary, almost
mystical vision. His work would profoundly influence not only biology
but also movements, thinkers and authors as disparate as Art Nouveau
and Surrealism, Sigmund Freud and D.H. Lawrence, Vladimir Lenin and
Thomas Edison.
The key to Haeckel's vision was a tiny undersea organism called the
radiolarian. Haeckel discovered, described, classified and painted
four thousand species of these one-celled creatures. They are among
the earliest forms of life. In their intricate geometric skeletons,
Haeckel saw all the future possibilities of organic and created form.
PROTEUS explores their metamorphoses and celebrates their stunning
beauty and seemingly infinite variety in animation sequences based on
Haeckel's graphic work.
Around Haeckel's story, PROTEUS weaves a tapestry of poetry and myth,
biology and oceanography, scientific history and spiritual biography.
The legend of Faust and the alchemical journey of Coleridge's Ancient
Mariner are part of the story, together with the laying of the
transatlantic telegraphic cable and the epic oceanographic voyage of
HMS Challenger. All these threads lead us back to Haeckel and the
radiolaria. Ultimately the film is a parable of both the difficulty
and the possibility of unitary vision."
The film is beautiful! You can buy it from:
Icarus Films
32 Court St, 21st Flr
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 488-8900
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You will need to speak with them about usage rights
Website:
http://www.frif.com/new2004/pro.html
Best wishes, Mark
Walhimer Associates
Mark Walhimer, PMP
555 32nd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: 415-221-0222
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> I need to develop a list of movies for a film symposium on evolution
> that will run through Darwin year (2009) and wondered if you had any
> ideas for movies that present evolution in positive, and maybe even
> humorous ways (such as the 2001 movie, Evolution, with David
> Duchovny). The idea is to spawn discussion about the ways in which
> evolution is represented and whether those representations are valid
> and accurate interpretations of the theory. And maybe, to have fun
> doing that!
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Mary Nucci
> Rutgers University
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