In the Name of Roses
Original title: In the Name of Roses
Duration: 52’
Producer: Thierry Berrod
Director: Thierry Berrod
Participant: Pierre Cressent
Company: Mona Lisa Production
Scientific field: Environment / Exact Sciences / Technologies / Medicine / Health / Arts
Year: 2007
Country: France
Over the course of a lifetime, a single human being can produce over 6 tonnes of excrement.
But despite its importance, it remains a subject of great taboo.
So for those with a delicate disposition, whenever we refer to our number twos or faeces,
stools, turds, shit, crap, droppings and poo-poos we’ll be using a more fragrant code name:
the rose.
We will be facing our greatest taboo head on as we examine our "roses" in more detail than
ever before. Picking apart their petals one by one.
We’ll be looking at medicine – why our daily blooms are crucial for physiological well-being. At
history – what they tell us about our origins. And technology – how these fragrant little buds
can be used as an energy source, and even as food. Our fascination with the floral has even
led alchemists and artists to transform it into gold, and even create machines that produce
artificial versions of our floral friends.
So come with us on a rose strewn voyage of discovery...
In the Name of Roses 
