The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (2005)

Nigel Wattis's documentary The Garden of Cosmic Speculation travels to the said locale - by all accounts one of the most unique and thought-provoking gardens in all of Europe - for a reflective on-cam... read more era tour. Designer-cum-architecture critic Charles Jenks and his wife, writer Maggie Keswick, planned the garden as point-of-entry to exploration of the universe at large, and a locale that (by virtue of its layout) innately celebrates both chaos theory and the science of complexity, with elements that symbolize the history of creation, the essence of matter itself and the foundational materials of life. Different paths in the garden each represent distinct areas of human knowledge; in this documentary, Jenks leads the audience on a trip down each path and (abetted by interviews with scientists) reveals the ways in which various elements of the garden have been used symbolically and metaphorically to convey deeper and more profound ideas. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi