Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis documents the life of an artist who is drive to pursue questions that can only be answered in the space where science and art lose their individual distinction. Why would someone want to encode poetry into the eyes of a fly, fish for paramecium or send transgenic organisms into outer space?
Joe Davis' projects can seem fantastical, impossible, even ill-advised. A deeper look into his work reveals a hidden logic that is surprising and contagious - more philosophy than art.
Working with hundreds of hours of footage shot over ten years from around the world, archival footage, photographs and interviews from respected scientists and artists, Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis not only answers these questions, but illuminates why these questions are important now, at this moment in human history.