Test Subjects
BLOCK 07 (Countdown To Year Zero, Leilani Munter, INVISIBLE, Test Subjects, Live Your Most Compassionate Life)
Runtime: 16mins, 46secs
Directed by: Alex Lockwood
Country of Origin: United States
Directed by: Alex Lockwood
Country of Origin: United States
Test Subjects explores the pressure on aspiring scientists to experiment on animals in order to earn their diplomas.
Seen through the eyes of a trio of former doctoral students as they recall their struggle with the expectations of academia, Test Subjects takes an unflinching look at the deeply personal decisions that these scientists made that ultimately changed the course of their lives and careers.
Test Subjects provides a peek into a world few ever get to see—and what's expected for entry into that exclusive club with its pressure to conform, to question only that which is acceptable to question, and to maintain the status quo, even if it runs contrary to good science. Test Subjects does not turn away.
Seen through the eyes of a trio of former doctoral students as they recall their struggle with the expectations of academia, Test Subjects takes an unflinching look at the deeply personal decisions that these scientists made that ultimately changed the course of their lives and careers.
Test Subjects provides a peek into a world few ever get to see—and what's expected for entry into that exclusive club with its pressure to conform, to question only that which is acceptable to question, and to maintain the status quo, even if it runs contrary to good science. Test Subjects does not turn away.