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Swapna KurupIn a community center in Dubai, Indian classical dancer Vonita Singh applies her art form to bring back movement in the lives of people affected by Parkinson's.
Composer Pauline Oliveros' concept of Deep Listening defines a way of relating to the world. Initially intended to guide musicians into greater awareness and responsiveness to their environments, the term soon developed much further. To encompass more than a musical practice, more than an aesthetic, becoming a kind of philosophy. As one of our key senses -- of communication, of spatial perception, of defining atmosphere of place -- in a world increasingly awash in noise, we could perhaps all stand to listen more closely to the fine details that surround us. And to see what we may learn from them. Films in this program approach sound in many different ways: as vector of information, as means interrelation and connection, as cultural creation, as organizing structure for narrative and motion, as the very fabric of day to day reality. It's been said that film, for all that it may be considered a visual medium, may be more reliant on sound for its overall effect. So listen closely.
In a community center in Dubai, Indian classical dancer Vonita Singh applies her art form to bring back movement in the lives of people affected by Parkinson's.
In an empty world, a solitary female mechanically follows the protocols of a factory hog farm. Her labours are sporadically punctuated by musical rhapsodies as she moves toward the impending end. Is it the end of the world, a program malfunction, or the beginning of a film?
Inspired by the life of Joan Hinton, an American physicist who fled to China shortly after helping to develop the first nuclear bomb, this music video uses archival footage to capture in the sweep of Cold War arms race. Video directed & edited by Vanessa Gould (Green Fuse Films) Music & words by Jas
24 dancers embody the birth of neurons, activating the brain/body. This film is part of the "The Brain Piece," a live performance. For more info: http://www.jodyoberfelder.com
65 million years ago, a rock of unknown origin travelled through space to percute the Earth to put an end to three quarters of the life on the planet. At the region of the impact, a group of searchers venture into the darkness of a Mayan cave to explore the acoustics of the place. They set in a stra
In parallel interviews, the biologists Niles Eldredge and Armand Marie Leroi discuss Eldredge's theory of Punctuated Equilibria (the idea that species evolve in sudden jumps) and Leroi's Darwinian study of revolutions in the history of pop music. Taking in Eldredge's work on trilobite fossils, his v
I buried a 100-foot (about 30 meters) 35mm negative film under fallen leaves alongside a country road, which was about 25 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, for about 6 hours, from the sunset of June 24, 2014, to the sunrise of the following day. The night was beautiful with a
Into noise is an experimental documentary film on the soundscape of New York, and a personal story of alienation and disruption. Challenging the way we hear our every day lives, the film delves into the science of sound, following the filmmaker in her attempts to cope with urban noise in New York, t
A scientist, a ballerina and a visual artist explore a theory in quantum physics that suggests the entire universe was creating from nothing.
An international research group is searching natural resources from the Arctic Ocean. They pick up a strange underwater sound from far north, and start to follow it to the uncharted waters. Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
This movie is an offer to open up to our future, to our ability to assure : "We are here. This is 2030!". Mars Society is a display of this future, which is so far only fiction. Conversation between today's fiction and scientific's simulation, this movie is as much an archive document on contemporar
My best friend lived across the street. In a house across the way on the same street. He went into his house when we all went home. The store was closing. In summertime, it is at 9 pm. That was the last time I saw him.
A short documentary following the preparation and performance of the musical composition 'Activating Memory' by the Paramusical Ensemble, comprising of four severely motor-impaired patients and a string quartet at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London. The parts for each instrument are gen
Deep in the emerald cloud forests of Cusuco National Park of Honduras, scientists are on a quest to record the never-before-heard call of the endangered "exquisite spike-thumb frog" (Plectrohyla exquisita). What ensues is both a delightful portrait of the process of scientific discovery and an inspi
A photographer who is blind, a musician suffering from advance hearing loss, and a painter who lost half her brain in a boxing match - the film explores the meaning of images, fragility of memories and desire for relevance in today's world through eyes, ears and minds of 3 artists.
A mysterious web of international shortwave radio towers once dominated the Tantramar marsh. Meanwhile, local residents heard radio broadcasts emanate unexpectedly from their household appliances. The Radio Canada International shortwave relay site was built during World War 2, to broadcast to Europ
The lone survivor of a scientific voyage must take drastic measures to save his species' genetic code.
Arto Lindsay and his son, Noah, embrace and disintegrate into the digital cloud. Arto Lindsay continues his tradition of working with contemporary artists by inviting Jonah King to create the music video for Uncrossed (2017).
Canada's National Ballet School is world-renowned for training ballerinas. Now people with Parkinson's Disease are learning to dance in the NBS studios. Through animation watch what happens in the brain of a dance student with Parkinson's.
An elderly lady pursues her audiophile obsessions. When she is absent she records the sound of her house to listen to it later.
In a small village in the Finnish countryside there's a TV-tower that resonates in the wind, in three different frequencies. This land mark plays a central role in Three Wavelengths (orig. Kolme aallonpituutta), an experimental documentary, exploring the ideas of scale, distance and perception throu