This Italian art film is an essay on the theory that “the shape of the human body is determined by necessity and regulated by a principle which gives the greatest result for the least effort - the best of engineers could not invent a more perfect and economical structure. Humans could not be different from what they are because they could not be simpler”. Commentary in English.
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Collection
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
321989
Language
English
Subject categories
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Anatomy
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Body, Human
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Human physiology
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)