Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...
To describe the world is to create another.
To describe the world is to create another. A disembodied narrator recounts the life and death of Pliny the Elder, author of the first encyclopedia. Excerpts from Pliny’s "Naturalis Historia," echo between past and present, real and virtual, tracing the evolution of knowledge from written encyclopedias to modern AI algorithms.
Trailer
Actors
Federica Ferro
Narrator
PTE 003.2
Pliny
You may like
Clear Skies 2
Topsy: The Last American Camel
Clear Skies
The Secret of Life on Earth
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
Genesis
What Darwin Never Knew
Oblivion
Origins of Life
Max Knight: Ultra Spy
THRASHING
Grand Theft Hamlet
The Botany of Desire
Second Nature: Gender and Sexuality in the Animal World
Minnesota: A History of the Land
Why Dinosaurs?
History of the World in Two Hours
The Animal World
The Captains
Being James Bond
Extremis
Star Wars Biomes
A Toxic Love Story