A short film about the world, as seen through the eyes of a young adolescent boy. Sitting by a river he examines the environment of the bacteria living in the water, he attentively scrutinizes the microbes through a magnifying glass, which doubles up as a kind of keyhole through which the boy peeps through into a big abstraction. Somewhat like Lewis Caroll’s “Alice Through The Looking Glass” the boy’s curiosity is visually revealed like a phantasmagoria of found and archive footage depicting the conditions of life and the world. The film’s core metaphor is the boys coming of age, and of the many things he will see and learn to understand, question, accept or refuse.
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