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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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