Gabra2

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Jan Karpinski
Germany, short, 2006
11 mins. (MiniDV)
(German with English subtitles)

Do you own your body? Mr. Hamsen, an unemployed labourer discovers that The Genomics Health Group Ltd. has patented a gene found in his body. It might have to be removed. A parody on genetic engineering and intellectual property rights gives pause to what we have unleashed in the race to map and patent the genetic code.