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The Aquanaut
199121 min 30 secFilm: Fiction, Children's film
Direction: Michel Murray
Production: Jacques Vallée
Script: Michel Murray
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the financial assistance of the Canadian International Development Agency.
Zenon is a product of the most up-to-date technology and so displays an unusual characteristic for a computer: he is conscious! Orbiting the Earth, he is in constant contact with Estelle, who is in charge of a major, planet-wide research project on water. Faced with the disturbing situation he observes, Zenon soon becomes bitter and disillusioned--to the point where he substantially alters his mission.
Could Zenon's creator, the mysterious Professor Nguyen, have foretold how the mission would turn out?
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > Natural ResourcesRivers and Bodies of WaterWater Resources
- Technology > SatellitesWater and Water Treatment
- Media and Communication > Telecommunications
- Technology Education > Communications and TechnologyScience and Technology
- Science > Environmental Science
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
Credits
- director
- Michel Murray
- script
- Michel Murray
- producer
- Jacques Vallée
- cinematography
- André-Luc Dupont
- animation camera
- Pierre Landry
- sound
- Yves Gendron
- editing
- Michel Murray
- Éric Genois
- sound editing
- Lucie Fortier
- Serge Lafortune
- re-recording
- Shelley Craig
- Louis Hone
- animation
- Yvon Mallette
- computer animation
- Georges Mauro
- music
- Jocelyn Therrien
- cast
- Marie-Josée Gauthier
- Khanh Hua
- Jean L'Italien