Resurrecting the Sublime
- Synopsis
- Short documentary. Using tiny amounts of DNA extracted from specimens of three flowers stored at Harvard University’s Herbaria, an interdisciplinary team of biotechnology researchers, engineers, and artists have reconstructed the smell of two extinct flowers, the Orbexilum stipulatum, or Falls-of-the-Ohio Scurfpea and the Leucadendron grandiflorum (Salisb). [6 minutes]
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Arts and Humanities; Biology
- Keywords
- botany; DNA; flowers; herbaria
Online availability
- URI
- https://vimeo.com/332410867
- Delivery
- Streamed
Credits
- Director
- Alexandra Daisy Ginsber
- Writer
- Alexandra Daisy Ginsber
Sponsor
Distributor
- Name
Vimeo
- Web
- http://www.vimeo.com/ External site opens in new window
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