Our September issue is electric! “Electric Visions” explores the underlying currents that power on and off our landscapes and that course through the minutia of everyday life. What exactly is this physical phenomenon – “flows of electrons”? And does it even flow? How do powerfully inconspicuous charges shape the visible and invisible worlds we inhabit? How do we capture the electric essence with its multitude of forms? This issue sets out to explore these questions, and uses animation, fiction, and documentary hi-lights to showcase electrically charged experiences of our physical and social world. With currents beaming through our cells, we forge our memories and plan our future selves. With electric potentials we set our lives in motion, extend our waking hours, and put machines to work. And for every electron that supports a chaotic and flourishing life exists those that bound us – that bring comfort in warm glows or anguish from authoritarian light. In this issue we explore the interplay between past and future, light and dark, silence and noise, and chaos and order that mark our electrical world. Co-curated by Alexis Gambis and Veronica Jacome
The internet can now connect anyone, anywhere, anytime. But some people cannot stand the electromagnetic radiation from the wireless networks that surround us. They feel the pulse of the wireless world on their bodies. Are they the canaries in the coal mine?
Structured in seven parts, each segment considers the impact a transmission beacon relays into its surrounding environment. Watch Tower acknowledges the act of watching through an acute awareness of how form influences perception while also observing the communications and time-keeping properties of
The Tesla World Light is an 8-minute 2017 black and white avant-garde film by Montreal director Matthew Rankin imagining the latter days of inventor Nikola Tesla in 1905 in New York City.
Happy Tree is a short film made for the 7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival (themed around TIME) 48 Hour Competition and won first prize. The film features Mari in the lead role as Dr. Eleanor Drew and was directed by Jonathan Minard. The script was based on a scientific paper by neuroscientist
With the introduction of bioprinting the possibility of new organs is becoming a reality. The ability to replicate and print cells in complex structures could mean different cells with various functions could be put together in new ways to create new organs we would take millions of years to evolve
3 Men and a Bulb is a story of 3 men who earn a livelihood from their gharat (watermill) in foothills of Himalayas (Uttaranchal), India. The life led by these 3 men is meager, having access neither to electricity nor employment that brings regular income. Farming is very arduous, as supply of water
Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form,
walking tests for light bulb penguin. was trying to find out which kind of a walk looks better on him. at first he had the patience to cooperate, but unfortunately not for long.
Nikola Tesla finds himself inside the sort of fantasia in which Fellini might feel at home. It's not just Tesla the genius that intrigues Shapiro, but Tesla the showman.
The father of neuroscience Santiago Ramón y Cajal wakes up one day with magnified vision. Based on the short story "The Corrected Pessimist" by Santiago Ramon y Cajal Voice over : Carlos Bardem / Brain Images by Jeffrey Lichtman / Animation by Shiv Kachiwala
Based loosely on research into the nature of electricity by the 19th century British experimentalist, Michael Faraday, Faraday's Dreams of Electricity depicts the experiments he might have dreamed of doing had he lived at another time. Faraday is credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induct
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
Off Power starts with an urban development analysis of Hong Kong Island though the lens of its electric infrastructure. But the documentary-like tone slowly shifts to science-fiction. A mysterious phenomenon forces its electricity supply to be cut off. Therefore, Hong Kong is plunged into total dark
A repeating journey across the San Francisco Bay Bridge becomes a journey into disintegrating visuals, video transformation, with a backing soundtrack taken from "40 years of Radio", and tells the end of film and the emergence of video.
In an ultra-connected society where electromagnetic waves have invaded almost every space, three people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity talk about survival in a world that seems increasingly inaccessible to them.
A woman in her mid-twenties experiences a power outage at home and is forced to take care of her grandfather, interrupting her plans for the day.
When does sound become music? THE SOUND IS INNOCENT invites you on an audiovisual journey into a dreamlike space that explores the meaning, function and significance of the world of electronic and experimental sound. Across five distinct chapters, the film guides us through an oscillating maze of cr
As result of an accident during the repair work next to the psychiatric hospital, the electrician loses his consciousness and finds himself behind the wall.
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
Just before the pandemic, the world experiences a phenomenon never seen before. Marilene looks for her daughter Roberta, a trans woman who went missing. While running out of time, she discovers a hope for the future.
Walfrido Larduet, a lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman, whose image persists and becomes an obsession. Something tells him she is near. Over the course of a day, Walfrido will follow her trail as he travels through the suburbs of an infested city.
Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and computer-generated geometric animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.
Off-Line is a short stop-motion animated film that I created and produced over four years. It tells about my relationship to work and how I understand it. The film is focused on a small orange capacitor named "IZ" that lives on the circuit-board control-panel of a microwave oven. The microwave is co
Two 16mm camera rolls shot at the Collective Unconscious during a performance of "Teslamania" featuring Gecko Saccomanno and Tesla Coil Engineer Jamie Mereness. The film's visual effects, double exposures, and refracted images, were all done in camera, just as we see them here.
'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
20Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangibl