In a precision laboratory experiment, as in the filmmaking process, the close recording, and sometimes manipulation of, the passage of time can be key to success. Our August issue takes on a classic preoccupation of science fiction, time and movement through it, and extends our investigation to its other manifestations, in and out of the lab.
An engineer, hired by a venture capitalist for an impossible task, gets trapped in physics and the creative process. Written & Directed by Laurence Rosier Staines Produced by Agnieszka Switala Director of Photography – Pavel Trotsenko Production Design – Hugh O'Connor Edited by Laurence
Springtime along the Mid-Atlantic seaboard thousands of horseshoe crabs spawn on beaches under the glow of the full moon; a reoccurring ritual for the last 450 million years. Citizen scientists venture out along the shore to keep tally of their population. The film attempts to document the annual ob
In 1962, the speleologist Michel Siffre decided to spend two months deep in a cave, without any way to keep track of time. The aim of his isolation was the scientific observation of human rhythm, removed from the alternation of day and night. Outside time, the young man's reason vacillated, his perc
In early 2017, Andrej Ondracka, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, sent a message to John LaCava's "Sounds of Science" project asking if anyone would like to collaborate on a project mixing science and the arts. Bernie Langs, one of the Direc
Microscope time-lapse: sugar crystalizing out of solution. Appreciation of the crystallization process as a beautiful quantum phenomenon.
I attempted to create a person in order to emulate the aging process. The idea was that something is happening but you can't see it but you can feel it, like aging itself.
The human lifespan is increasing by two hours every day. But how much life is enough--100 or 1000 years? Part science, part philosophy, Until is a journey in which leading UK age researchers, children, the elderly and a man seeking immortality, explore some of life's most profound questions.
The passage between light and dark, between happiness and despair, find an elegant scientific metaphor in this film. Wally watches his grandmother lecture college students about wormholes that connect black and white holes, and the immense gravitational pull between them. He remembers the time befor
Millions of visitors a year come to Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park, one of the seven natural wonders of the world and the most visited national park in the western United States. However, on extremely rare days when cold air is trapped in the canyon and topped by a layer of warm air, which in
What happened in the desert? The voice of her psychiatrist keeps repeating in her head. Carol, just released from the hospital, wakes up one more time totally confused. Why does she feel strangely out of place in her life now? Why is she haunted by a little girl who keeps talking about a big black b
Colorful "slow" marine animals come to life with complex focus-stacking time-lapse techniques. Corals and sponges play crucial roles in the ocean ecosystems, yet our understanding of their daily lives is highly limited.
Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell) changes the face of hip-hop, is elected mayor of Miami and survives a nuclear meltdown. This film is part of the permanent collection at the Miami Art Museum. After premiering at Sundance in 2012, it went on to play several dozen other international festivals, including
15,000 volts of current complete a circuit through the surface of wood by navigating around non-conductive barriers. Directed by Melanie Hoff Director of Photography: Horatio Baltz and Melanie Hoff
Hlynsky uses frame-blending to great effect, to give you a sense of overall motion trajectories. When he turns his lens on animals, the results are both beautiful (see fruit flies paint a still life here ), and an exciting way to visualize huge amounts of data. It's got me thinking I could use this
A man's ultimate romantic weekend backfires when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
When Milo's newest invention, the Reverse Microwave, actually turns out to be a time machine, he and his best friend Levi set out on an adventure through time.
When a group of friends invent a machine to slow down time, the results aren't quite what they expected.
A Study In Time Travel is an experimental film series and interactive character site exploring the lives of the lonely residents of Los Angeles through the eyes of one boy with a special power. The idea was to capture several vignettes of characters in lonely situations in Los Angeles. Part experime
When an ambitious young physicist stumbles upon what appears to be time travel she becomes inextricably entwined with the life and work of the great logician, Kurt Gödel. Their love story is the poetic reimagining of the inspiration behind Gödel's ill-fated obsession with time.
Recursion' is the modern-day time-travel adventure of Sherwin, a best man who travels back in time after losing a wedding ring.
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) takes time. It can take several hours for a PCR machine to amplify a DNA sequence. In Laboratory Film I wanted to make this duration tangible – to make a film in which time is not simply an idea, or an 'invisible' container for a series of things that happen, bu
Focus On Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence. It is a very personal and intuitive investigation into the roots and boundaries of our imagination dominated by sensual perception. Not unlike an