| Description |
1 online resource (39 min.) |
| Series |
Ethnographic video online ; volume 2 |
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Student films |
| Summary |
Breeding Cells is a film from the laboratory of reproduction. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There fertilization is made visible and manipulable on a cellular level while the couples themselves seem to become marginal participants in a process that involves a large number of different professionalized agents and technologies. Recorded in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital Berlin, this documentary approaches a scientific environment with an experimental ethnographic gaze. The filmmakers meet an open and quite unexcited "fertility team", who consider themselves simply assistants of nature. But what is nature in a hospital environment that is highly regulated by procedural methods, doctors conventions and conservative laws? Closely describing the routines and moral concerns of the medical staff, the film is portraying a transition time, when biotechnological science fiction is turning into everyday life |
| Notes |
This edition in German with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Fertility clinics -- Germany
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Fertility clinics.
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Germany.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Straube, Anna
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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
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