Documentary footage from various sources, set to music. Showing the whole of human life, from birth to death and beyond.
Editing
Birth-to-death montage that somehow makes gallstones and ballet equally hypnotic.
Score
Jonny Greenwood's anxious, gorgeous soundscape—Radiohead goes documentary.
Director
Simon Pummell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pummell spent six years licensing footage from archives worldwide, including medical films deemed too graphic for their original educational purposes.
Released the same year as 'Winged Migration' and 'Spellbound,' Bodysong helped spark a brief early-2000s boom in experiential, non-narrative documentaries.
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