Origin of the Species

Ben Rivers

IndieLisboa 2009 •

United Kingdom, Documentary, 2008, 16′

A film begun as a portrait of S, a 75 year old man living in a remote part of Inverness-shire. S has been obsessed with Darwin’s works for much of his life. Since a child he has wondered at life on Earth and, though he never became an academic, found in Darwin many answers to his questions.