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  • Summary: This documentary uses the undersea world as the locus for a meditation on the troubled intersection of scientific and artistic vision. The one-hour film is based almost entirely on the images of nineteenth century painters, graphic artists, photographers and scientific illustrators, photographed from rare materials in European and American collections and brought to life through innovative animation. (First Run / Icarus Films)… Expand

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    80
    Broad and pleasantly idealistic, and the evident ardor for 150-year-old graphics (especially Dore's Ancient Mariner masterstrokes) is hard to argue with. But is it a movie or the best-designed episode of "Nova" ever?
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    80
    A stimulating scientific inquiry that may cause audiences to look at (and think about) the world around them in dramatically different terms.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    40
    An incomplete portrait of a complicated man.

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