Proteus (2004)

Original title

Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision

Directed by

David Lebrun

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated documentary weaves together the work of biologist Ernst Haeckel, the voyage of the Challenger expedition, and a 19th century poem. It explores how one-celled radiolarians shaped a scientist's understanding of nature and its hidden order.

meditativeeducationalvisually imaginativecontemplativelyricalslow-pacedscientificwonder-filled

What happens

Proteus is an animated documentary film written and directed by David Lebrun in 2004. It depicts a 19th-century understanding of the sea by interweaving the life and work of German biologist and researcher Ernst Haeckel with excerpts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the story of the oceanographic Challenger expedition of the 1870s. One-celled microorganisms known as radiolarians feature prominently in Haeckel's fascination with the observable natural world and the underlying guiding principles assumed to be implicit in its very existence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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