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What parts of us are readable?

Code or Chrysalis is a film based on research about the imaginaries, obsessions, and amnesias surrounding DNA, often dubbed the Code of Life.

It looks into science histories and fiction, theaters of knowledge, and the afterlives of scientific metaphors spurred by the information age.

The film follows DNA through labs, decryption hypes, and historical theaters of knowledge.

What parts of us are readable – in so-called books of life or in today’s black boxes?