Sundance Channel : Film : Genesis

From the Sundance Channel Website: As part of THE GREEN, Sundance Channel presents a series of documentary films focusing on timely and pressing environmental issues of the day.

In a follow-up to 1996's Microcosmos, their award-winning, intimate look at life, death and sex in the insect world, French documentary filmmakers Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou take on nothing less than the birth of the universe and the origin of life. A creation narrative told by a West African griot poetically frames Genesis's artful melding of current scientific theory and myth, as it follows a progressive chronicle from the Big Bang to the evolution of terrestrial life. "A lyrical masterpiece...luminously photographed" - Time Out.

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from moi:
I watched this episode tonight (11/17/08) and was absolutely blown away by the video aesthetics, the poetry of the dialogue and the composition of the episode. This is a work of art way above and beyond even the most polished nature show. There is a soul to this thing. I'm reminded of the old Jacques Cousteau documentaries, but this has high tech video with it. Please please yourself and see documentary nirvana. Yes I'm gushing. GUSH.