CERN
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Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Documentary • With Pauline Gagnon • 2013 • 75 minutes
Award-winning director Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread, Abendland) delivers stunning images from inside the immense CERN, the research center in Switzerland where they try to recreate the big bang. Alternated by interviews with the experts who devised the “Large Hadron Collider,” the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, CERN gives an unprecedented insight into the complex experimental research institution and explores moments of tension between man and technology.
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