Almost Nothing - CERN Experimental City

Wednesday 26 Sept 2018, 18:15 → 19:35 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

The CERN CineClub invites everyone to a projection of the film

 

Almost Nothing – CERN Experimental City

directed by Anna De Manincor

 

Prix Interreligieux - Visions du Réel, Nyon, 2018

 

Once upon a time, there was a citadel, established on the Franco-Swiss border, called CERN. According to Alvaro de Rujula, one of the eminences of the scientific fellowship that “runs the shop”, dare we say it, physicists are more “modest” than architects, building their cathedrals underground. A little later on, another one claims, without laughing, that “the most momentous discoveries were probably made in the cafeteria.” We get it, Anna de Manincor and the ZimmerFrei collective (La Beauté c'est ta tête, VdR, 2014) run counter to the films habitually devoted to this institution. They leave the “Higgs boson” or “gravitational waves” in the background to spotlight the humans who are working away in this maze of corridors, cables and high-precision metal parts, seeking “almost nothing.” A sharp, and sometimes humorous, look at the life of this rather particular community, a real human and social experiment whose participants seem to invent the operating rules every day.

(by Emmanuel Chicon https://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/film/almost-nothing)

The projection will be followed by discussion with the director Anna De Manincor and the producer Serena Gramizzi

https://almostnothing.eu/#