Monte Grande: What is Life?(2005)

🎬80 min
📅2005-01-18
🎭Documentary
⭐9.0/10

Overview

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told affectionately and gently, touchingly and astutely. Varela spent his life building bridges: between Western science and Eastern wisdom, neurobiology and philosophy, abstract theory and practical life. This film seeks to deconstructs the prevailing division between science and art.

Production

T&C Film, Teleclub AG, SRF

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Cast

Heinz von Foerster
as Self
Tenzin Gyatso
as Self
Amy Cohen Varela
as Self
Humberto Maturana
as Self
Leonor Varela
as Self
Francisco Varela
as Self
Leonor Palma
as Self

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