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
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