LEGACY

SHORT FILM (4,5min)

LEGACY (2019) is a short film, a speculative future of reproduction and genetic legacy. The film insinuates one possible future of reproduction as an out-of-a body pregnancy, rising socio-technical questions such as, what if a man could have biological child on his own? How would societal formats of heredity, family and caring be challenged by one-parent children? The story is based on the recent scientific research on the IVG (In vitro gametogenesis) technology, claiming to make one-parent-children biologically possible in the near future.

Synopsis: A lonely middle-aged man reflects on the transience of his biological existence. Fearing to leave no traces and no descendants behind in the world, he puts his hope in a procedure offered by a secretive biotech company.

 The film was produced during Symbiosis competition, one-week-film challenge at Imagine Science Film festival in NYC 2019 in a collaboration with a scientist Alexandru B. Georgescu.

CAST / CREW:

Sridhar Maruvada / Actor
Leo Decristoforo / Director of Photography 
Igor Zwetkov / Editor
Alex Frontera / Sound
Cristian Cassara / Music

Supported by Imagine Science Films and Science Sandbox