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Wikipedia article
'Nano Babies' is a science fiction essay film by Swiss director Thomas Imbach, which he realised in 1998 together with Jrg Hassler. 'Nano Babies' follows everyday life in a crche at a technical university. Two future-creating worlds - the worlds of the children and their parents - collide. 'Nano Babies' was produced for Swiss television.
Plot
In the 50-minute film, small children are shown in a day nursery: As in Thomas Imbach's previous film 'Ghetto', fragments of the children's everyday lives, captured in rich detail, alternate with a variety of (cold, forbidding) exterior views and artful sounds (the day nursery is part of a university and the building also houses the laboratories and offices of the parents, mostly high-tech scientists).
Background
Imbach and his cinematographer Jrg Hassler call their film, shot in Cinemascope, a "science fiction essay", which, in a thoroughly ironic way, pretty much sums up the cinematic argument of 'Nano Babies'.
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