Death by Design

Product Details :

Year : 1995
Length : 70 minutes
Written and directed : Peter Friedman and Jean-François Brunet
A Production : Les Films du Bouc / Strange Attractions
Co-producers : ZDF Arte / ITVS / RTBF
Format : 35 mm, Color
Awards : Among some 10 international prizes. Prix Europa for 1996 best television programme
 

There exist a world where death creates life, where suicides without sadness occur billions of times an hour. It is a world of highly sophisticated communication and stunning choreography; of vast depth and endless mystery. Death by Design is a guided tour of the invisible world of cells, told through a collage of metaphors. State-of-the-art microcinematography is playfully intercut with parallel images from life at the human scale : a hundred lighted violins, imploding skyscrapers, pieces of film on the cutting room floor.

To describe "Death by Design" as elaborately illustrated lecture on the body cells is to do small justice to this intelligent and imaginative work. The New York Times

Imaginative, accessible and consistently entertaining (...) Never even remotly dreary in tone or execution, deft and delightful docu belongs to that category of pies that can alter the way viewers look at the world around them. Variety