Using laparoscopic instruments equipped with a camera Jocelyne Saab films the IVF process as it takes place. Report on implant operations in a hospital.
Casting
Director: Jocelyne Saab
Production: Ministry of Research,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France 2,
CNC, Balcon Production
Copyrights: Jocelyne Saab Association.
Jocelyne Saab’s word…
” Fécondation in video is far from being a commissioned film. It’s a very private initiative, dating back to a time when the effects of the war on my body
were delayed. I spent my time going back and forth between home and the hospital. What’s more, the doctor found me very distressed. I didn’t want to go home. So he suggested I find out about the newly-created “in-video fertilization” department, in case it gave me any ideas. After that, I worked on my own with the hospital.The adventure lasted 6 months, not counting the time spent finding medical sponsors. France 2 became involved in the production of the documentary at
, thanks to Roland Paringaux and MK2/Le Monde. And I shot a truly personal film in the process, one that won awards and reached a wide audience during its television broadcasts. It was a very personal project, which undoubtedly gave me a lot of energy to carry on.”
Press review
“For months, Jocelyne Saab fought to make it possible to see inside the human body as clearly as if you were there. Today, she is to the eye what a compact disc is to the ear.
“Jocelyne Saab invents a new form of television. Fécondation in video is part TV report, part cinemascope film, part
with psychedelic effects (Antonioni, Zabriskie Point period), part suspense film (when will those damned spermatozoa finish their ballet around the ovum? Will baby come?), purely surgical imagery and, last but not least, a corporate film.”
“For those who have seen it, the fiction of words – test-tube baby, embryo implantation – will have become, through the grace of perfect images of absolute quality, an unforgettable reality, a kind of extraordinary journey, à la Jules Verne, to the center of life.”
