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
transparant egg from fertilization to hatching.
The
first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all
animals, including humans. In the film, we can observe a universal
process which normally is invisible: the very beginning of an
animal’s life. A single cell is transformed into a complete,
complex living organism with a beating heart and running bloodstream.
The
salamander embryo (an Ichthyosaura Alpestris) was followed very
closely in a combination of timelapse and film. All stages of
embryogenesis can be seen in this film: cleavage, gastrulation,
neurulation and organogenesis. Time was condensed from about 3 weeks
to 6 minutes.
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