Doug Foster OVUM ( UNKLE blackout)

The ovum is the female reproductive cell that divides after fertilisation, starting a miraculous chain reaction that builds the embryo of a new life. This film focuses on the symmetry of that process. The mother nucleus tears itself into two identical daughter nuclei. The cell forms a dividing wall that separates the daughters into their own compartments. The compartments pull apart to form two complete cells. The cycle starts again in each cell. I used a dancer to represent the cell nucleus, partly in or