Linnaeus and the Terminator Seed

Summary Is there a deterministic, evolutionary line connecting modern botany to the contemporary transgenic? Bringing together botanical drawings made by European naturalists in Latin America and Southeast Asia, contracts and UN documents on transgenic seeds, as well as depictions of the reproductive systems of flowers and humans, this short film-essay explores the sexual imaginary of botanists such as Carl Linnaeus to consider the post-natural conditions governing current biotechnology, the colonial management of reproduction, as well the representation and indexation of life forms past and present. View more details

Linnaeus and the Terminator Seed

Directed : Pedro Neves Marques

Written : Pedro Neves Marques

Stars : Simão Cayatte Syma Tariq

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Genres : Animation Short

Release date : May 18, 2017

Countries of origin : Portugal

Language : English

Production companies : Museu Berardo

Summary Is there a deterministic, evolutionary line connecting modern botany to the contemporary transgenic? Bringing together botanical drawings made by European naturalists in Latin America and Southeast Asia, contracts and UN documents on transgenic seeds, as well as depictions of the reproductive systems of flowers and humans, this short film-essay explores the sexual imaginary of botanists such as Carl Linnaeus to consider the post-natural conditions governing current biotechnology, the colonial management of reproduction, as well the representation and indexation of life forms past and present. View more details

Details

Genres : Animation Short

Release date : May 18, 2017

Countries of origin : Portugal

Language : English

Production companies : Museu Berardo

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