Stone Age Cinema ( Quand Homo Sapiens faisait son cinéma )

Stone Age Cinema (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Quand Homo Sapiens faisait son cinéma
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
52 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2015 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Marc Azéma
Pascal Cuissot

Written By:
Pascal Cuissot

Actors:
Marc Azéma ..... Self
António Martinho Baptista ..... Self - Director of site of the Côa Valley
Raphaëlle Bourrillon ..... Self - Draftswoman
Jean Clottes ..... Self - Prehistorian
Marc Groenen ..... Self - Prehistorian
Noémie Kocher ..... Narrator
David Lhomme ..... Self - Geomatician
Laurent Mannoni ..... Self - Conservator of Cinémathèque française
Craig Packer ..... Self - Ethologist
Iégor Reznikoff ..... Self - Musicologist
Florent Rivère ..... Self - Technician of prehistory
Catherine Schwab ..... Self - Conservator of National Archaeological Museum
Gilles Tosello ..... Self - Artist trying to reproduce prehistoric works
Dominique Willoughby ..... Self - Film historian

Synopsis:

Archaeologist, Emeritus prehistorian and image creator, Marc Azéma adds an unexpected prelude to the birth of cinema, by tracing its genesis … to the Paleolithic! Camera in hand, he is leading for more than twenty years a survey through the artistic legacy of homo sapiens to propose a new interpretation that will interest all those who are passionate about the origins of cinema. In 'Stone Age Cinema', the discovery of an enigmatic stoneware plate in a cave in Basque Country, leads us to the steps of prehistoric artists who have developed real animation mechanisms. To the surprise of the viewer, they seem to prefigure the invention of the camera, and therefore the cinematograph. 'Stone Age Cinema' offers a trip to the famous caves of Chauvet and Lascaux and other prehistoric sanctuaries in search of graphics that could be reconciled with the first moving images of the nineteenth century. Begins a hectic investigation through 20,000 years of Paleolithic art with Marc Azéma, pre-historian, who is convinced that Homo sapiens was also a Homo cinematographicus.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 24 September, 2020.

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