Video

Extenderis

1993, 10:10 minutes, colour, French

TAPECODE 9999.114

Extenderis est une bande expérimentale construite comme un psaume contemporain. Elle porte une réflexion sur les origines de la vie et sur les capacités d'archivage de l'ADN. La bande s'articule autour de la thèse de Richard Dawkins: L'Horloger aveugle, qui avançait que nous, les humains, comme tous les êtres vivants, sommes les réceptacles temporaires d'un code éternel, l'ADN. C'est nous qui sommes au service de l'ADN et non l'inverse. Cette idée a évidement choqué notre vision anthropocentrique et fut considérée dans le milieu scientifique comme une hérésie. En ce sens, Extenderis est un psaume hérétique.

Constructed as a contemporary psalm, this experimental video reflects on the origins of life and the vast archival content of DNA. Extenderis revolves around the ideas of Richard Dawkins, on "L'Horloger aveugle (The Blind Watchmaker, 1987), according to whom human beings, as well as all living organisms, are the temporary receptacles of an eternal DNA code. We serve DNA, not the reverse. A shock to anthropocentric understanding, the idea was pronounced as heresy by the scientific community. In this sense, Extenderis is a heretic psalm.

Rental and Sales

Single Screening Rental

$140.00

Educational Purchase DVD (Bluray +$15)

$260.00

5 Year Educational Streaming License, Digital File with DVD Circulation Copy

$550.00

Gallery Exhibition and Installation, complete Media Request form for quote

Institutional Archival Acquisition, complete Media Request form for quote

Curators and programmers, please contact distribution@vtape.org to receive a login and password to preview Vtape titles online.

Screening and exhibition rentals and archival acquisitions include public performance rights; educational purchases or licenses include rights for classroom screenings and library circulation. When placing an order the customer agrees to our general online terms and conditions. Payment (or a purchase order number) and a signed licensing agreement must be received before media can be shipped to the client.