Filmprogram: Microbes and humans

23 November 2021 – 2 January 2022
Free with paid admission
Duration: 1 hour, the film program loops during opening hours

In connection with the exhibition ‘The World is In You’, we will screen two films which, each in their own way, address the relationship between the human body and microbes.
The microbes on our bodies are tiny, so small that we can only see them through a microscope. So what do they look like? Who are they? How do they behave?
In the silent film ‘The Merry Microbes’, a doctor takes hair and skin samples from a patient and subsequently invites him to see the microbes he is ‘made of’. The insight into this otherwise invisible world makes the patient believe he is ill, prompting him to desperately rush out of the doctor’s office.

Anyone thinking that earth belongs to humans has another thing coming. It belongs to the bacteria. They are everywhere. In droves. In the darkness of the deep sea and the arid stretches of the mountain desert. On humans and animals. Fortunately, only a small proportion of them are dangerous, and new science has shown that they are crucial to the continued existence of life, including man. In ‘Bacterial World’, a range of researchers speak about our symbiotic coexistence with bacteria.

The Merry Microbes (1909) by Émile Cohl (3:38 min.)
Bacterial World. Microbes that Rule Our World (2016) by Stéphane Bégoin (54:00 min.)

The film program is curated by Jacob Lillemose.
The films are looping during opening hours, and are paused during special events in the cinema.