Becoming

BECOMING is a short film about the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the ‘making of’ a salamander in its transparent egg from fertilization to hatching.

Director Biography

Jan van IJken is a filmmaker and photographer from the Netherlands, working at the interface of art and science. His work is about the secrets of nature, microscopy, embryology and human-animal relationships.

Director

Jan van IJken

Country

Netherlands

Language

No Dialogue

Year

2018

Duration

6

Science Film

Saturday, 11 June 20:00 - 21:45 / Kijkhuis 1
105 min.

Also in this session

1. Becoming
Jan van IJken, 6
2. La pieuvre
Jean Painlevé, 14
3. The Art of Flying
Jan van IJken, 7
4. Les amours de la pieuvre
Jean Painlevé, 13
5. Planet A
Momoko Seto, 8
6. Planktonium
Jan van IJken, 15
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