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Like birds and flowers, humans go to all kinds of trouble to stay in the light
By pairing a series of beautiful images with just a few lines of poetry, Heliotropes shows how patterns repeat themselves at different levels of nature, whether we know it or not.
Director: Michael Langan
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Physics
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Film and visual culture
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Art
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Nature and landscape
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Biology
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Astronomy
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Animals and humans
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Physics
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Meaning and the good life
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