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Widening the Scope of Science Docs at CPH:DOX: Storytelling That Delivers More Questions Than Answers


CPH:SCIENCE opens the floor to conversations on the role of science docs with key players.

At New York-based production studio Sandbox Films, the ambition is to reinvent science doc storytelling and move away from the traditional, top-down didactic style. Illustrating this approach, Cizek had selected a hypnotizing clip from Peter Galison’s “Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know,” a Sandbox film which premiered at CPH in 2020 and was picked up by Netflix, featuring a power of 10-inspired graphic representing the scale of light-year distance in the universe. “We’re really trying to be more playful,” explained Harrop, who told Variety they worked with an architect and Harvard colleague of Galison’s to create the mesmerising graphic.

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