Inspired by Nature

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Since 3.8 billion years live exists on earth. There was enough time to find the perfect solution.

Year

2010

Length

4x52 min

Director

André Rehse

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The four-part series shows how humans can learn from nature. „Since 3.8 billion years live exists on earth. There was enough time to find the perfect solution.“, says the American ecologist Janine Benyus, who hosts the series.

Nature provides a huge undiscovered source of ideas. On one hand nature offers efficient „technologies“, on the other hand these smart solutions can be applied on industrial products. But most of all we can learn the principles of nature. If we mimic them, we will be able to master many challenges of our industrial society.

“Biomimicry“ is Greek and means: mimic life. In Germany these disciplines in science and technology are called “Bionik“ or “Biomimetik“. In the series we will introduce a number of examples for technologies inspired by nature.

Episode 1 – The Art of Movement
Episode 2 – Building with Efficiency
Episode 3 – Orientation in Chaos
Episode 4 – Fabrics of Future

Written by
André Rehse
Jan Tenhaven

Directed by
André Rehse

Director of Photography
Fabian Welther

Editor
Oliver Szyza

Sound
Sebastian Richter
Martin Kleinmichel

Music
Nils Kacirek
Sipho Khumalo

Line Producer
Kathrin Isberner

Producer
Anahita Nazemi

Executive Producer
Christian Beetz

Commissioning Editors
Christine Peters

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Trailer
  • „Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
    17.05.2018

In co-production with

  • wdr

In co-production with

  • ems
  • br

In association with

  • arte

Supported by

  • media programme