2024 | Germany | Documentary,Fiction,Experimental,Short

Code or Chrysalis

  • 19 mins
  • Director | Laura Leppert
  • Writer | Laura Leppert
  • Producer | Laura Leppert

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What parts of us are readable - in so-called books of life, in today's black boxes – and by whom?

CODE OR CHRYSALIS is a film based on research about the imaginaries, obsessions and amnesias that surround DNA, often dubbed the ‚Code of Life‘. It looks into science histories and fictions, theaters of knowledge, and the afterlives of scientific metaphors spurred by the information age. The film follows DNA's through labs, decryption hypes and theaters of knowledge.

dna laboratory nanotechnology micro-macro-relations embodiment code of life scriptural metaphors coding information age readability black box science histories mechanistic worldview political fictions decryption cold war theater of knowledge memory
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