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The Evidence Workers

by Bernard BLOCH , François NINEY

Infos

Original title : Les travailleurs de la preuve

Director : Bernard BLOCH , François NINEY

Production : Oeil sauvage

Duration : 51 Minutes

Year : 1997

Original version : French

Country : France

Synopsis

Our documentary seeks to test out what research is on a daily basis and the development of scientific facts in a laboratory (The Salpêtrière Laboratory of Neuropathology). The film shows how lab benches, desks, test subjects, instruments, money, lectures and articles are recruited and linked by researchers to produce certain signifant chains of events which can be measured, repeated and finally interpreted, or a new method which resists (or doesn’t resist) controversy. Filmed on the spot, this mise en scene of our investigations of scientific production networks questions decisive hypotheses with protagonists which contribute to showing science at work.

Awards

Selections : Telescience Montreal, Palaiseau, Portugal, Brazil

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