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Spectrum: Your breath smells like emotional tension

Follow us into a darkened German cinema to talk about how the stuff we breathe out when we're watching a movie has implications on the future of film ratings — and on a young field of medicine.

Producer: Gabriel Borrud & Conor Dillon

Date 23.04.2019
Duration 30:00 mins.
Author Conor Dillon, Gabriel Borrud
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Keywords Spectrum
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