Keep Looking ( Cherche toujours! )

Keep Looking (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Cherche toujours!
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
52 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Etienne Chaillou
Mathias Théry

Written By:
Etienne Chaillou
Mathias Théry

Actors:
Etienne Chaillou

Synopsis:

In a laboratory in France, researchers grapple with the tricky task of trying precisely to describe the shape of... well, everything. How do you accurately describe the shape of a rabbit, for example? To someone who's never seen one. Or a leaf? Or an oyster? And once you start down this path of reductive description, where do you stop? Why does sand sing? (yes, it really does). And why doesn't it sing now? How are sand dunes formed? What is the best way to portray disorder?
Why can't I manage to work? Why must I take photos in the Jardin des Plantes? Why does a researcher search? What is proof?

Keep Looking (Cherche toujours) opens with an intimate close-up of a face and voice-over narration recalling a dream. This is not a conventional documentary about the nature of scientific explorations, and the science the programme itself explores is also not entirely typical. The study of singing dunes, crumpled paper and the shape of leaves are only some of the interests of the group of scientists whose work we follow in their somewhat claustrophobic and chaotic laboratory. The chaos around them however is not indicative of their minds, which in contrast demonstrate a precision and level-headedness to the world around them. 'Mad scientists' they are not. Their furrowed brows and head in hands in quiet unguarded moments reveal intensely contemplative minds.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 18 September, 2009.