Death by Design: Where Parallel Worlds Meet (1997)

Director
Jean-François Brunet; Peter Friedman

Main cast
Klaus-Michael Debatin; Pierre Golstein; Robert Horvitz; Rita Levi-Montalcini; Polly Matzinger

Genres
Documentary

Description
A guided tour into the invisible world of cells, told through a collage of metaphors. Discusses and portrays the invisible world of cells, how they communicate with each other, work together, reproduce, and die, all to benefit the larger organism of which they are a part. State-of-the-art micro-cinematography 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.


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