Altered Perceptions

Blind artist and piano tuner David Johnson nurtures his inner sight through the power of touch in a collaboration with Jessica Sarah Rinland, Tate Britain and NOWNESS .

The Decelerator Helmet offers the user a perception of the world in slow motion. It is a experimental approach for thinking about our increasingly fast moving, globalized society.

There is always movement, even in stillness. Things around us are constantly changing in tiny ways that we don't notice, eventually building up to growth and death. In "Confluence," a new film by director Noah Shulman, viewers look beyond what the human eye is capable of seeing to experience those m

A travelogue that is at once strange and familiar, abstract and real. Here There gives graphic form to memory's malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveler's sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This f

A journey to an eye clinic in Delhi for cataract surgery provides a meditation on age, love and loss in this poetic short.

In Quiet Zone, the filmmakers take us deep into the world of those who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. These "wave refugees" settled in West Virginia around the Green Bank observatory, in an area known as the National Radio Quiet Zone. Combining elements of documentary, film essay and

Enter a world where sound gives shape to space. Julie Engaas attended the National College of the Arts, and studied animation at Volda University College, graduating in 1997. Since then, she has directed several animated shorts, as well as the documentary Sound-Shadows, which has screened at numerou

How do we breathe? How do we smell? Using supercomputer simulations, scientists can recreate a rapid and short inhalation, a 'sniff'. Using pure data visualizations, this short documentary allows us to see the stunning beauty of this process. Credits: Directors: Guillermo Marin & Fernando Cucchietti

This experimental film explores and separates language into the multiple sensory perspectives of sign, speech and gesture. With perspectives from research scientists in linguistics and neuroscience, alongside insights from deaf and blind contributors, we use the "language" of film to illustrate the

Experimental documentary on dreams of the blind and visually impaired. Edited by Alex Blumberg Shot by Ryan DeFranco & Michael Patten Assistant Camera Chloe Walker & Adrian Vásquez de Velasco Assistant Director Nia DaCosta Special Thanks Blanca I. Carranza, David De Porte, Darrell Wilson, Phi

'The Nose' is the result of a collaboration with composer Llywelyn ap Myrddin, folk singer Sam Lee and research scientist Dr Darren Logan. Produced for the Body of Songs project and supported by Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England. The aim was to create an audio-visual version of that all-consum

I don't know if you've ever heard a goat eating carrots? It's almost too much, it's so lovely' An Eyeful of Sound conjures up the fascinating visually complex internal world of audio-visual syn-aesthesia, where senses make unique connections the rest of us don't experience. In this Wellcome Trust fu

A short documentary about understanding and perception of music by deaf people.

Kate Prigge of the Monell Chemical Senses Center studies what things smell like—to us, to canines, and to machines. By using many different sensing technologies, from mass spectrometers to working dogs, she is honing in on the smells that signal health and disease. In her latest work, Prigge i

After experiencing substantial hearing loss, three individuals take up a lip reading class to stay connected to the world that is slowly leaving them behind. Through a journey of sound design, this short film takes a leap into the world they are able to hear, the sounds they are losing, and the smal

Two citizen scientists challenge the monolith of the scientific industry through their own open source experimentation, all from the comfort of their garage. Biohacking is a small but energized movement among professional and amateur scientists alike who are taking experimentation into their own han

2A wonderfully surreal short turns the poetic neurological concept into a deranged visual symphony. Plus: a creepy video for the musician St. Vincent! Probably the easiest-to-explain example of the brain-wire crossing neurological concept of synesthesia is when somebody associates (and sees in their