| Nano Babies | |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Language: | Swiss German |
| Runtime: | 50 minutes |
| Director: | Thomas Imbach, Jürg Hassler |
| Screenplay: | Thomas Imbach, Monika Gsell |
| Producer: | Bachim Film |
| Music: | Peter Bräker |
| Cinematography: | Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach |
| Editing: | Thomas Imbach, Jürg Hassler |
Nano Babies is a science fiction essay film by Swiss director Thomas Imbach, which he realised in 1998 together with Jürg Hassler. Nano Babies follows everyday life in a crèche at a technical university. Two future-creating worlds - the worlds of the children and their parents - collide. Nano Babies was produced for Swiss television.[1]
In the 50-minute film, small children are shown in a day nursery: As in Thomas Imbach's previous film Ghetto, fragments of the children's everyday lives, captured in rich detail, alternate with a variety of (cold, forbidding) exterior views and artful sounds (the day nursery is part of a university and the building also houses the laboratories and offices of the parents, mostly high-tech scientists).
Imbach and his cinematographer Jürg Hassler call their film, shot in Cinemascope, a "science fiction essay", which, in a thoroughly ironic way, pretty much sums up the cinematic argument of Nano Babies.