Nano Babies is a science fiction essay film by Swiss director Thomas Imbach, which he realised in 1998 together with Jürg Hassler. Nano Babies follows everyday life in a crèche at a technical university. Two future-creating worlds - the worlds of the children and their parents - collide. Nano Babies was produced for Swiss television.[1]

Nano Babies
Directed byThomas Imbach,
Jürg Hassler
Screenplay byThomas Imbach,
Monika Gsell
Produced byBachim Film
CinematographyJürg Hassler,
Thomas Imbach
Edited byThomas Imbach,
Jürg Hassler
Music byPeter Bräker
Release date
  • 1998 (1998)
Running time
50 minutes
CountrySwitzerland
LanguageSwiss German

Plot

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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

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Imbach and his cinematographer Jürg 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.

References

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  1. ^ "library Swiss Television".
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