Babies - yesterday I went fast times in the recently tarnished film by French director Thomas Balmès.
The film is a documentary with four main characters who do not speak - not yet. It follows four babies in four different regions of the world in their first moments.
Now it is basically so that children of the adult world to hold a mirror, sometimes even grotesque.
In the way we treat adults babies from the first moment, it is clear who we ourselves are actually how we see the world, what we think we know about the world and what we think we must pass on to the children.
Ponijao, Bayar, Mari and Hattie from Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and San Francisco have the camera in an unobtrusive companion, she never turns on. But it takes consistently the perspective of the tiny one: ground perspective, wide horizons ... Somehow reminded me of the documentary at this point in the film "microcosm - The people of the grasses" . Even in this we are familiar with the secrets of us only seemingly familiar world of insects, which seems in some sequences, such as from another planet. (more ...)
