Accident By Design

Duration: 51

Year Published: 1997

Creator: Daniel Conard

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Examines the meaning of beauty and explores varying philosophies of art and aesthetics through interviews with 21 acclaimed individuals in the fields of art, dance, film, poetry, and the biological sciences. Incorporates music with images of paintings, dance, drawings, and chemical and biological processes to exemplify the ideas discussed by the interviewees as they investigate how humans respond to visual and sensory perceptions, the relationship between science and art, and the use of art in bringing order to a chaotic universe.