Cosmovision

In the highly controlled environment of a "cleanroom", women and men busy about a mysterious astronomical instrument. What are they looking for?

Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they come from nor where they are heading.

This is a story of astronomy and astronomical missions. Of a NASA space mission called Lucy set to discover the origins of our solar system and an Earthly mission in Senegal, West Africa, to build a space agency. "Space is open for everyone; it belongs to everyone." Senegalese astronomer Maram Kaire

As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.

Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. The Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized telescope. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile

A mystical sci-fi based on Saint Teresa de Avila's writings. Inside a ghostly mausoleum that is an artifact of both the past, and future, these nuns are being affected by a black hole. Ecstasy is an eerie exploration of pleasure.

The Event Horizon Telescope is an international astronomy project connecting observatories around the globe. The mission of this vast collective telescope array is to produce an image of the border of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, named Sagitarius A* (pronounced "A-star"). A

In Memorabilia, a daughter mourns the loss of her father, a passionate collector of space memorabilia, as she falls under the sway of the 'flown' space objects in her inheritance. Voiced by award-winning Australian actor Matilda Ridgway, Memorabilia draws on the Powerhouse museum's incredible collec

This film looks at the question of life outside of the solar system, focussing on the work of Dr Duncan Forgan — a theoretical astronomer from the University of Edinburgh — and Grant Miller, an observational astronomer based at the University of St Andrews. Grant uses the James Gregory T

"Because she has been alone for a really long time and there´s just no one else, she might as well live on the moon." Gudrun Krebitz´s EXOMOON is an animation film that uses drawn, filmed and over-painted images. It commences with a softly whispered internal monologue. Female voices para

A suburban mailbox has an existential breakdown.

A community of electrically sensitive people is fleeing to a remote mountainous region of West Virginia called the National Radio Quiet Zone. In the shadow of one of the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescopes, The Quiet Zone follows four people as they adapt to life in this unique envir

Many grains form a cloud, many clouds form an atmosphere. 120 meters of hand-painted 35 mm film were digitized and fed into an algorithm that organizes the images in real time according to parameters such as painting technique and color. This film thus explores the perception of time by the eye and

Steve believes that everything is Science, and that lines drawn between disciplines are man-made. He studied biology and psychology at the University of Virginia before pursuing graduate studies in photojournalism at the University of the Arts London. Steve's film "Pyongyang Style" was broadcast aro

How were the stars and the Sun created? Where do we come from? Is there a connection between life on Earth, the planets, their moons, and the Sun? What do we have in common with them? What has iron and stardust to do in this context? How big is Jupiter and the Earth if the Sun is 20 meters in diamet

The Cosmos is alien and playful. Cosmos probes and flows through the everyday world, pushing the boundaries between the infinite and the familiar.

A self-isolated young human known as "James" delves into the hidden world of microscopic organisms, forging a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures and developing a massive online following, as he seeks to understand his own place in the cosmos and accept the scars of his past. "A

Following a prison sentence that permanently estranged him from his daughters, Laurence Burton fabricates a new life in a secluded spot in the Tabernas Desert alongside his second wife, Brie. Isolated from the world, this outsider dedicates himself to building a flying saucer propelled by gyroscopes

With her latest video Three Suns , LIA invites the viewer on an excursion through a universe of superformulae and mesmerising sounds. Three dark objects, each with bright orange rays, inhabit a shared space. Constantly in motion, and constantly changing in size, they circle each other, generating a

On July 20, 1976, the first image of Mars reached Earth. That same night, in Jujuy, the lights of the Ledesma sugar mill went out completely: 400 people were kidnapped by the military with the support of the company. In June 2023, almost 47 years after the "Ledesma Blackout", the first streaming fro

With an inquisitive mind and a love for science, Dharini is full of exuberance and ambition... as well as the naivet̩ of a teenager who has yet to face real loss in her life. Taking place over the 16 days of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle mission of 2003, Dharini delves into the world of an im

A filmmaker explores astrophysical metaphors to make sense of a failed relationship to person and place.

Based on audiovisual archives from the National Center for Space Studies (CNES), Listen to the Beat of our Images , is a film by Audrey and Maxime Jean-Baptiste which deals with the establishment of the Guyanese Space Center (Kourou, French Guiana), wishing to bring out the Guyanese population, a re

A 10-year-old Roma boy living in Sweden attempts to come to terms with the mysterious Resignation Syndrome that has put his two sisters in a coma. The tight-knit family is trying to rebuild a normal life far from their native Kosovo where they were victims of persecution. While their entire future h

Constructed during a three-year-long research period that involved visits to more than 20 centers and laboratories dedicated to the advanced research of outer space, The Quintessence considers the scientific study of outer space as a narrative, and analyses the hidden dreams and expectations of thos

Cosmorama observes the world such as it doesn't seem to us, making an inaccessible strata of the luminous spectre visible. Shot near an observatory, the film uses an infrarouge imagery process with which astronomers usually observe objects of deep space. The film creates the conditions of a tangible

Where are the limits of consciousness and are we connected in ways we never knew? ...when you look away will take you on an expedition into the unknown territory of the human consciousness. How far does consciousness reach? And are we maybe connected with each other in ways that we never knew? It is

'It was in 1894 that I first visited Ben Nevis. Young physicists were sometimes welcomed in the Observatory for short periods in the summer to take the place of observers on holiday. I offered myself for this work and it was arranged that I should spend a fortnight on the summit.' This is Charles Wi

An object that appears in a series of recent telescope images will drive a young astronomer and her colleages to a shocking discovery. A new astronomical survey takes wide angle pictures to make a tridimensional cartography of the sky. It will find out position and distances to far galaxies, stars i

Young astrophysical Skye is part of a research project on black holes. To this end, she joins the observatory Einstein's Telescope on a remote island in the Arctic. In this particular place, haunted by her past, space gradually becomes an obsession.

As a kid, Geoff Penington always looked up to Stephen Hawking, hoping that someday he too could make groundbreaking discoveries about the universe. But years later, through his work on the black hole information paradox, he was able to prove his childhood hero wrong. Produced by 522 Productions

SMALL TOWN UNIVERSE explores life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a remote town defined by the National Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless technology restrictions help preserve the work of the Green Bank Telescope. Standing at 485 feet tall, this world-class instrument allows scientists to investigate t

Area 51, Nevada, USA is a movie that distances itself from all testimonies and hypotheses. It invites the viewer to come to a place where strange sounds come and go. The characters seem to be witnesses to events that happen off frame and the spectator is invited to imagine them.

The hunter is tracking nocturnal images with his photographic trap. In the middle of the desert, the astrophysicist uses his giant telescopes to probe the cosmos. Through their territories and their images, they are both questing new myths.

Roads fall into the sea and a travelogue breaks against the landscape. Writing and then image fail. Analog manipulation captures what a camera can't. This film attempts to find a way to inhabit the margin between place and passage, between experience and representation. Can text become a physical sp

COSMOSAPIENS charts the intersection of astrophysics and existentialism. Faced with the magnitude of the Universe, a group of scientists who live and work at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, located in an isolated village in the Caucasian Mountains, seek meaning through science, philosophy, an

Sirius, a lone star in the form of a dark-skinned man, has collapsed to earth. What little space he found on his host planet, he works to provide food and shelter for him and his wife, Angèle. One winter's day, the firmament calls him back, Sirius takes the long way leaving his wife behind. T

The Stability of the System is an exploration into the material agency of images and of forms and their ability to call each other into being.The film begins with a mathematical point willing itself into dimensional existence, inventing/discovering space, then time. Shot on the volcanic island of La

Wumni, a reclusive young Nigerian immigrant, becomes convinced that a mysterious object approaching Earth's orbit holds the key to her loneliness. Determined to decode the alien signal, she enlists the help of Jenny, a stranger and owner of a music shop. Adapted from the short comic by award-winning

A consciousness reflects on the collected memories of the sentient cosmic explorers it has harvested experiences from. An otherworldly vision of the power of light and the weight of planets.

If the Moon could speak, what would it say? A commercially-driven, international Space Race has propelled us to this moment in the 21st century: within a few years, the Moon's surface may be subject to permanent human occupation, its resources aggressively mined for profit, and its ancient nature-sp

At the Gaomeigu Observatory in China, the Naxi people scan the sky, convinced they are the descendants of immortal beings living there, abandoned on earth to watch them. Between astronomy and legends, Marko Grba Singh ( Pale , VdR 2013, At Least We've Met , VdR 2012) seems to compose a mysterious an

A group of people wander over a field at the foot of a cloud-covered mountain range. Here and there, swings have been set up in the broad landscape and the people queue up obediently to sit on them for a few rounds. Sarah Francis returns to this scene again and again. In between, we follow a creatio

Wandering between the scientific and the psychedelic, "Earth's Answer" is a reflection on the meaning of images, their nature and durability (and a homage to the poem "Earth's Answer" by William Blake). We follow the thread of the thoughts of a man who could be just well an astrophysicist, CERN arch

An astrophysicist (Marion) and an extraterrestrial (Thomas) are in love. Tomorrow, they must say goodbye. It's the price they must pay to free Thomas from the horrible affliction he is suffering from on Earth. Thomas will leave our world and return to his planet. Marion accompanies him to the point

What happens to light when passes near a black hole? A cluster of galaxies? Any giant mass? The gravitational pull from these objects can distort or bend the light as it travels towards an observer. This effect is called gravitational lensing. Light follows the curvature of spacetime. Gravitational

Sepideh Hooshyar, an Iranian teenager, dreams of becoming an astronaut, but cultural and economic factors make her goal difficult to achieve.

Incorporating visual and narrative elements informed by the work of George Poinar Jr., famous as the inspiration behind the science of the Jurassic Park franchise, 'The Good Soil' explores the phenomenology of nature and temporality. Our dependency on nature is juxtaposed with our personal desires a

The View from Nowhere explores humankind's place in nature through the science and technology of CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva which artists Semiconductor gained access to during an artist research residency trip. Driven by an interest in the material nature of our physical world a

Filmmaker, Ali Alvarez, collaborates with one of America's leading astrophysicists, Dr. Rebecca Oppehnheimer, in a tribute to one of the world's leading scientific institutes, Palomar Observatory - creating a reflection on the memories of the universe lost due to the pandemic.

Cosmographies is a hybrid film that draws from modes of speculative fiction, observational and poetic documentary, activism, and Indigiqueer approaches. Māori astrobiologist Xuê Noon (played by Australian/Māori artist Victoria Hunt) finds solace in Mars in 2051 as a leader from the Aotearoa Sp

A telescope is the incarnation of the abyss staring into itself [...] the subject, a telescopic lens through which the incomplete world develops a self-consciousness of itself." (Reza Negarestani). Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Fes

Hyo-Jin attends the funeral of her younger sister in South Korea, her homeland. First denying the pain caused by her loss, she decides to shorten her stay in Korea and swiflty returns home to Montreal. The death of her sister disturbs her daily life, triggering rather irrational thoughts, despite he

A mining town waits for economic recovery while physicists under their feet wait for answers from the universe.

Requiem imagines the last remaining astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) bidding farewell to their vessel before it is deorbited and crashed into the remote South Pacific (an event scheduled to take place by the end of 2030). Combining original poetry with exquisite photographs a

Stas, a cosmonaut, becomes lost in space, and when he comes back, the world is empty. In 1967, two young friends, Stas and Andrei, arrive to the newly built Star City (near Moscow ) where the first cosmonauts trained to go into space, and where a race against the clock to beat the Americans into spa

Joseph is an astronaut set to go where no man has gone in the Universe through the hibernation program. But something is wrong between him and his instructor Claire, and the countdown for the lift-off is on. Directed by Jon Mikel Caballero Starring: Adam Quintero, Manuela Vellés

In Natal, the Northeast of Brazil, the country is preparing to launch its first manned spaceship into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space center, the husband is a mechanic while the wife is a cleaning lady, who dreams of other horizons.

Carolina returns to Costa Rica to try to rebuild the relationship with her father. After a few months, her father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At that moment, Carolina meets Ifigenia, an archaeologist expert in the stone spheres found in the south of Costa Rica; the country's great enigma. S

In The Stars Have Eyes , suspense, thriller, and horror film stills, recorded performances, and animations are remixed and re-contextualized to create a subversive visual language. The artist inserts herself into iconic cinematic scenes, becoming both voyeur and participant. These interventions disr

'Red Earth opens up a magic theater of ideas, writ very very large... courageous camerawork mobilizing a zero-gravity matrix of environmental (no-)futures and post-planetary angst... Koszulinski's epic allegory parlays astonishing cinematography, future "testimonials," and resonant tropes from sci-f

Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview and wisdom. Against the backdrop of the modern existential crisis and the human-induced rapid environmental change, there is a necessity to reclaim the ideas of animism for

Salt: trace, absence of water, the passage of time, invading epidemic, living cemetery. Water: manoeuvre, absolute value, fertility, rhizomes, chance. Cotton: corruption, economic issues, hydrophily, desertification. The world has become a vast dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, overexpl

With a series of color filters, a team of researchers uses a telescope in Teruel, Spain, to develop a three-dimensional cartography of a big chunk of the universe. This mapping captures nearby objects within our solar system, such as asteroids; stars of our galaxy, other galaxies, vast clusters of g

In "What's Inside A Black Hole' Royal Observatory of Greenwich astronomer Rad explains where black holes come from, how we know they're there, and the strange effects they have on surrounding matter. We'll even find out what would happen if we were to approached one!

"Goulash Sidéral" is an episode from the series "Astronome Gastronome," directed by Geneviève Anhoury. This short film uses culinary metaphors to explain the concept of light traveling through the vast expanses of the universe. It illustrates how light, despite traveling at 300,000 km

On 18 January 2016, a group comprising a medium, a scientist and researchers into the paranormal was invited to an observatory outside Paris. For several days, they explored the setting using their specialist skills. Knowing nothing about the history of this observatory, they each reactivated a hist

In an underground garage, a voice message becomes the testament of a love left in limbo, while fleeting images allude to the moment that led to it.

"We have made our peace with the fact that we are not coming back. We are the first ever people on another planet. We are now interplanetary." In 2024 a private organization plans to send a group of four people to Mars. Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins are both shortlisted candidates for the planet's f

A former cowboy turned janitor with an eighth-grade education, Milt Humason forms an unlikely friendship with astronomer Edwin Hubble and assists him at Mt. Wilson Observatory, a partnership that leads to their discovery that the universe is expanding.

In an observatory in Budapest, a astrophysicist plans to go to the moon. In his small dome, the micro-universe turns into macro, giving life to his plans.

Located in rural Aotearoa New Zealand, a full-scale concrete adaptation of Stonehenge is an active observatory and portal to other worlds. Shot on Super 8mm, this end-of-time silent film navigates science fiction tropes through spatial circularity and cosmic rhythms.

MIRA is a magical realist short that contemplates the relationship between the life cycle of galaxies, the immortal jellyfish, and a young marine biologist's own mind as she risks her life to pursue the work she loves.