The second Collide@CERN-Geneva prize is awarded to a film maker
Geneva, 26 March 2013. CERN and the City and the Canton of Geneva awarded the second Collide@CERN -Geneva2 prize to the 47 year-old film maker Jan Peters3, for his proposal to explore the world of CERN from a highly personal perspective. Jan Peters has divided his time between Switzerland and his native Germany for many years. An artist and film maker, he is known particularly for personal documentaries charting his own life, and his films have won prizes at festivals around the world. During his residency at CERN, he intends to address the links between science and art, politics and philosophy. "My questions are very similar to those of physicists, who are passionate about the same central issues such as the meaning of life", he explained in his proposal. In awarding him the Collide@CERN -Geneva prize, the jury4 recognised Peters as "an author who makes profoundly personal films that probe and dissect reality.
