The Origin of Languages

Nicolas Philibert

IndieLisboa 2012 • Observatório

Switzerland, Experimental, 2011, 4'′

In his latest work, Nicolas Philibert films animals set to extracts read from Rousseau’s L’Essai sur l’origine des langues that questions the social role of language and its origins.

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