BECOMING

Directed by Jan van IJken · 2018

Through microscope time-lapse, an Alpine newt grows inside its transparent egg from a single cell to a hatching creature with a beating heart.

Witness the invisible miracle of life forming, cell by cell, in stunning microscopic detail.

BECOMING is a short film by Jan van IJken about the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the 'making of' an Alpine Newt in its transparant egg from the first cell division to hatching. A

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