Movie Details
Original Language:English
Every Tear on the Web:Official Website
Every Tear
DirectorSarah Vanagt
30 min
Plot
In the 17th century Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek a draper from Delft begins to make glass lenses in order to better study the quality of his textile He melts drips and grinds small beads of glass His tiny lenses are so bright and have such magnifying power that the draper seems to have entered a new dimension Is he the first to see little moving animals in a drop of water How to describe something that nobody ever saw before In the film Every Tear Sarah Vanagt starts a journey into her home city of Brussels with Leeuwenhoeks microscope in hand She picks up bits and pieces on her road and tries to find out what the first microscopic images may have looked like She replaces the lens of her camera by the 17thcentury lens As she is filming she wonders why we always look for shapes that we already know whenever we are in the eye of the unknown
