A guided tour into the invisible world of cells, told through a collage of metaphors. Discusses and portrays the invisible world of cells, how they communicate with each other, work together, reproduce, and die, all to benefit the larger organism of which they are a part. State-of-the-art micro-cinematography 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.
Directed by: Jean-François Brunet, Peter Friedman
Cast: Death by Design: The Life and Times of Life and Times, http://firstrunfeatures.com/deathbydesigndvd.html, https://blog.sevenponds.com/lending-insight/film-review-death-by-design-where-parallel-worlds-meet-by-jean-francois-brunet-and-peter-friedman, https://itvs.org/films/death-by-design, https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C3566283, https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/death-by-design-1200443609/, https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/25/arts/the-dance-of-death-inside-the-body.html, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_by_design, Klaus-Michael Debatin, Martin Raff, Pierre Golstein, Polly Matzinger
Genres: Documentary