Language:
German
Pages:
1 online resource (39 min.).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Series Statement:
Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Series Statement:
Student films
Keywords:
Fertility clinics
;
South Africa
;
Nonfiction films.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously released as DVD.
,
This edition in German with English subtitles.
URL:
http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1879432
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