4’24” England 1997
Blue Gene Baby is a short digital film (for single large scale projection), which portrays visions of human genetic identity, reflecting and questioning the ability of DNA profiling to reduce human complexities to numbers, codes and patterns.
The film contains Images derived from super8, video and digitally created media and an ambient soundtrack by John (JJ) Johnson (GBM). The film grew out of a personal involvement in a DNA profiling project which aimed to trace inheritance factors for diabetes. At he same time Science was mapping the human genome, a feat eventually achieved in 2003.
- Screenings include:
- Camden Open, Camden Odeon
- Edinburgh Festival
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival
- Offline TV, USA
- British Film Institute/Realnetworks Filmakers Showcase (Internet)\
- Various Art Gallery locations
- Group show “Otherness” Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
- Reel Women Norwich