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An extraordinarily simple premise deftly executed, this video arranges a diverse group of 100 people in ascending order from age one to 100. With a snare drum to mark the progression, the resulting short film, People in Order: Age, is imbued with humour and humanity. In the words of the filmmakers, the project is ‘like a list of government statistics where the citizens […] have broken out from behind the figures on the page. The people on the screen stop us from seeing them as numbers. Even in single-second bursts there are worlds of personality stretching out in front of us.’
Directors: Lenka Clayton, James Price
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Food and drink
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Technology and the self
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Technology and the self
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Neuroscience
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War and peace
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Language and linguistics
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Life stages
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Biography and memoir
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Stories and literature
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