Mixtape 23

A take on our future told through the voice of hybrid creatures.

A study of ants and the inner life of one who studies them. Recommended Read: Taylor Hart's article " World's first transgenic ants reveal how colonies respond to an alarm" This film was made as part of the Imagine Science Symbiosis competition

"Beetle Bluffs" brings to life the stories that accompany each specimen within a natural history collection. The film is by Anna Lindemann, developed in collaboration with Brian Farrell, Curator of Entomology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, home to one of the richest and historically m

Traveling far away from the city, a young girl undergoes a process of transformation of her identity. She goes on this journey surrounded by peace, nature and the consolatin of poetry. In a sequence of various days, she will gradually meet her mirror image and will obtain the courage to find her pla

Microscopy, timelapse, and observation beautifully captures a lab's full study of squid embryonic development. Original score gives a momentum and underscores the aesthetic beauty of these images and data. Squid Development with music composed and performed by Kristina Dutton and Nathan Clevenger.

Brief reflections with AI on the nature of memory. Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New Wave.

For years Clarice has kept her father's work hidden, as she works a menial job at the local rec center. But after a renowned neuroscientist makes her a tempting offer, Clarice must make a decision whether to guard his secret or give the last piece of her father's genius away.

Cyanobacterial motion captured in time lapse. These green guys love to glide around. They sure look good doing it too. This clip came from instagram pondlife_pondlife , taken by Sally Warring with a Leica microscope and LabCam . Sally takes almost all of her videos with LabCam.

The limit of impossibility is a relative measure. It's a product of a person's acknowledgment of the unknown and the limitation of our senses and knowledge. Some ideas might sound impossible, but in most cases these ideas are impossible according to the limits that are designed by current knowledge

Seeing the full picture is often our biggest challenge. By focusing on small building blocks, we can transform society.

In 2090 CE, the English-speaking countries united to create a world government. It destroyed all libraries containing non-English languages on Earth. There is one multi-language-containing library left, in space. It is the NASA Golden Record. Weiyang, a girl accused of speaking Chinese, is sent to d

A poetic soaring within a laboratory of genetics . With Marie Coutelier & Nicolas Maille A movie from Marie Coutelier (Scientist) & Alexandre Labarussiat (Filmaker) With the collaboration of Michel Dequet & Nicolas Maille The team thanks l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) &

Light. Sound. Matter. Intricate landscapes emerge from multitudinous overlapping waves of film and quantum physics. Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New Wave.

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.

A blissed-out squirrel rolls through a meadow of objects.

Approaching the mysterious, inaccessible realm via the few traces that are currently available. At the same time, revolving around the desolation and devastation that humans have left in their treatment of it. Michaela Grill devotes herself to these two tasks in Antarctic Traces , a splendid, thorou

Set in the Mediterranean, J.I. posits a world destabilized by the advent of biological immortality, a gift of life from a mysterious new species. Part solutionist satire, part transhuman tragedy, it features fictionalized versions of Buckminster Fuller, Ray Kurzweil and Rachel Carson. The start poin

Is it a bird, is it a plane? Shot in the desert of Dubai, Shaheen examines the relationship between bird and human and how humans have used technology to try to recreate wild hunting. Shaheen follows the morning routine of the falcons of the Royal Shaheen group. The falconers Peter and Sarab attempt

"Not the ghost in the machine, but the body in the medium is the central dilemma of modern communications…" – John Durham Peters The World : In a possible near future, where quantifying of the self is taken to its logical extreme, every person has their own "supermetric". This is an inf

The video is taken with a high-speed camera shows a filter-less separation of C. elegans worm eggs from L4 stage using high inertial forces only. As you can see, the eggs are sorted out from the upper outlet while the L4 worms are sorted out from the lower outlet. During this sorting process in a sp

Through the collective memory of a 250 million year old species which has survived two mass extinctions, structures of exploitation, industrial monoculture, and interspecies relations are reframed through the plantationocene.

A rendering of the possibilities of the Whole Brain Catalog ( http://wholebraincatalog.org ), an open source, multi-scale virtual catalog of the mouse brain. Part of the Whole Brain Project ( http://wholebrainproject.org ).

The film tells the story of an aspirational consumer dystopia, in which expensive surgical alterations might allow individuals to influence the ways in which strangers infer personality traits from their faces. Told in the form of an 80s style infomercial, the narrator lists a series of experim

Soil science, soil fiction is an experimental documentary that explores the relationship between science and fiction within three soil-centered practices: permaculture gardening, metal detecting, and dredging. Looking at the different narratives and relationships that develop within them, the film q

Sleep. Do we get enough? The latest developments in circadian biology research are uncovering the detrimental effects that a lack of sleep can have to our well-being. Sleepless is the result of a two year conversation between artist Ellie Land and scientist Professor Peter Oliver about the links now

We Rule is from "The Leafcutters" series – a project that includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture. It was filmed at Liquid Jungle Lab, a biological research station on Isla Canales de Tierra off the Pacific coast of Panama. The soundtrack was created from wildlife recorded on locati

Bird Watch is a mockumentary mini-series that documents Kuwait and the mean-region from the perspective of peripheral and/or minorities. The second episode, titled "Health", is about a child's point of view of a healthful lifestyle.

How different is one species from the next? How can we distinguish body from mind? In Lilian Mehrel's short film, air is expressed as a verb – to breathe / to air out. Mehrel drew her inspiration from molecular biology, water creatures, the connection between living things, and the importance

What happens when you smell something? This whimsical look at olfaction follows the journey of a smell through the nose. A film by Anna Lindemann and Albana Kodra as part of the Imagine Science Symbiosis Competition Animation by Anna Lindemann. Illustration by Ziael Ponte. Microscopy by Albana Kodra

Human existence leaves behind traces of destruction which tell an absurdly appealing story of the past, reconstructing tales of past existence while simultaneously showing its detrimental effects on the future. The pseudo-documentary PLASTIK aims for a depersonalized self-reflection on human interac

Call of the Silent Cell is an experimental film of cellular behaviour centred on the interplay between the gut microbiome, the immune system and wider concerns regarding the symbiosis of human and environmental health. The beautiful patterns of nature, as we might experience on a walk in the woods,

Nico shows us the sequential stages for staining and image mouse embryos in Marc Tessier-Lavigne's Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair Nico is from Paris, France. He received a B.S. is Cell Biology (2006) from the École Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm and a M.S. in Neuroscience (200

Are the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence worthy of our fear or celebration as we stride into a more technologically reliant future? Human Applications is an art film reflecting on the algorithmic patterns and architectures behind biological and artificial intelligence. MareNostrum 4, th

For as long as humans lived around malus species, they've been eating apples. The apple tree has been domesticated, diversified - it has evolved in new ways via natural and artificial selection. But what is the perfect apple? Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification.

Turn It Upside Down – Sometimes our most deeply held beliefs are exactly what's in the way (Imagination v. the establishment).

There has not yet been any applied work of Metacinema. It was necessary to give the path to methodological problems. That is the reason why I decided to choose the purest subject to analyze. That is a subject composed of a single "substance".

A portrait film about the pollution in Brooklyn NY and beyond. Extromophiles are organisms that exist when nothing else can survive.

The following historical observation is the starting point for this film: The estimates of the speed of light through history decrease with time. The images in the film evoke experiments behind the estimates on the speed of light.

A dynamic explanation about quantum teleportation where Paris is used as backdrop. How to explain Quantum Physics to a friend. A new environment, a new scenario, a new metaphor ... or perhaps just new friends. A movie from Pierre-Arnaud Lime, Pierre Jouve & Adrian Marza. Music: Barbie Camion-Feeling

Orfeo Nel Canale Alimentare (Orpheus in the Alimentary Canal) is an animated opera about the digestive tract. In the film, Orpheus attempts to rescue Eurydice from a bout of indigestion by crossing the river of her inner-under world. But in the alimentary canal there are no heroes, only the multitud

"Sincerely Yours" is a portrait of representation in science centered on the developmental biologist Ethel Browne Harvey and her work with sea urchins. Positioning the camera lucida–a drawing device foundational to the history of biology–as both an instrument of scientific visualization

In Island Flyer: A Postcard from the Isle of Wight , the filmmaker takes us on a journey to an island in the English Channel in pursuit of summertimes gone by.

The life of Andrea "La tana" Ruscitti. Inhabitant of the Paulino island of Berisso. The story of a family, the love for the land and the legacy that Andrea defends as a true river lioness.

Plants display a remarkable degree of plasticity, able to completely regenerate from dissociated single cells. The root tip of the model laboratory plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, houses a group of stem cells that constantly divide to allow growth. Remarkably, if the tip of the root (including all stem

Two bears are hungry in NYC. Hungry for salmon. Follow Big Bear and Little Bear's respective expeditions through the city in search of a scrumptious meal. From lavish fine dining to lively food carts – through the simple act of eating – the relationship between bears and salmon enables t

Release Date: July 1, 2018 With documentary audio material and Butoh dance, the multi-age performers are invited to take shapes, organize themselves in nightmare poses and free-form improvisations and create moving tapestries that allow our audience to create its own interpretation of the mysteries

How does the son of a Cajun bull riding butcher become the Neil Armstrong of Emotion? Dr. Joseph LeDoux emerged from this unlikely background to become an internationally acclaimed pioneer of the science of emotion and the go-to expert on fear and anxiety. But not only is Dr. LeDoux a world renown s

Every summer Ashlee Rowe of Michigan State University spends a few weeks catching bark scorpions by the light of the moon. These stinging critters carry venom that is severely painful to humans but certain animals, like the grasshopper mouse, seem to have no reaction. Rowe's team is looking into why

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

Two immigrants recount the changes brought about by their journeys to the U.S., paralleling that of cells migrating in response to a wound. ISFF13 Symbiosis

Childhood trauma and stress can lead to the shortening of the chromosome which eventually shortens your life span.

Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera unfolds in 5 movements as we journey from cutting edge genetic engineering to the very origins of pig domestication 10 millennia ago, and back to the wild boars still inhabiting our forests. This documentary and personal narrative is set to an original score by composer

Every spring, established ant colonies exile their royalty – small populations of reproductive female and male ants. These winged layabouts suddenly spring into action, flying up into the air to enter clouds of mating ants, called leks. They mate for the first and last time with ants from neig

Part science and part fiction, Other Voices is an experimental documentary about the enigmatic life of plants and the people who love them. We meet Mileece, a sound artist who claims to have given her plants a "voice" through a process of amplifying the electrical current produced in plant leaves an

Alya Red is a project of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for simulating a human heart. In this video we explain the scientific background of the project, and show scientific visualizations of simulations using the computational electromechanical model applied to a rabbit heart. Winner of the 201

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

A world in which memory is artificial

Wearing well is a collaboration between Enrico Milanese, Researcher in Computational Solid Mechanics and Markos Kay, Computational Artist. The film visually reimagines Milanese's research whereby the microscopic effects of contact and wear between materials are studied through the use of high-perfor

Deforest is an art/science project that combines environmental critique with material enquiry. In this project, sulphuric acid – a highly corrosive acid that burns to the touch – is used to dissolve photographs of old growth rainforest from subtropical Queensland. Deforestation is one of

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

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

Take me to where there is life, is a short documentary made by Carmen La Griega in the form of a poetic letter to her father who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer. Filmed at home it documents her father ́s illness over the last three years. In the movie we see how Alzheimer brings father and daughte

The more you talk about Information flow, the more it feels spiritual. A philosophical and mathematical definition of inforrmation flow.

A journey into the social staging of threat and reassurance. Fragmentary archive footage from the USA of the 1940s/50s and associative images of Hamburg, Germany today are woven together to create an enigmatic narration. We meet silkworms recording memories, family history found on the Internet, pol

When a wide-eyed 10-year-old girl visits her fathers insect laboratory, she receives an unorthodox education in genetics.

From Rio de Janeiro's beaches to the Amazon wildlife crossing though the urban jungle of Sao Paolo, FIELD WORK explores the state of science and art in Brazil as the World Cup takes over the country. Soccer becomes not only an obsession but also a distraction, a fear, a hope and the platform to disc

In a tale about fetal microchimerism, a woman experiences the persistent loss of her child who died in utero many years earlier. Her sadness is eased by the knowledge of their molecular bond as the child's fetal cells were absorbed by her body and a microchimera was created. During a brief interlude

Cultural exchange and experimentation in music across the borders of east and south Asia date back to the time of Tang Dynasty in sixth century China. Encounters in medieval port cities generated conversations in and of music. These relations in history however are hard to trace today. In the absenc

Gold prospecting in Madeira river (Brazilian Amazon) is illegal and brings about severe socio-environmental consequences. In spite of all that, it is an important economic activity for the local people, in order to complement their familiar income. The video shows the gold prospecting process carrie

A lonely middle-aged man reflects on the transience of his biological existence. Fearing to leave no traces and no descendants behind in the world, he puts his last savings and hope in a procedure offered by a mysterious biotech company.

Matters of the Heart , a series of six, silent, black-and-white films of operations were shot with a 16mm Bolex film camera in the operating room: Heart, Blood Flow, Stomach, Eye/Hand, Vertebra, Brain . Two choreographies overlap: that of the surgeons and that of the intuitive-conceptual camera edit

The film is voiced by an anonymous group of 'hybrid' machines, from some point in the near future, who look at humans and animals as inefficient machines and consider ways of editing and improving their code. Whilst the work appears to be a piece of science fiction all of the technologies and ideas

Illuminated and filmed from above, the software detects the position of the mouse head in real-time (indicated in green) and uses this to create a perspective correct virtual reality. The detected mouse contour and centre are shown in magenta. The Lab of Andrew Straw studies neural circuits and beha

Kimura discovered that the surgical removal of forewing discs in butterfly larvae resulted in a pupae not only missing the forewing, but also outer casing that would normally cover the wing region. This meant that the hindwing was left clearly visible, allowing for easy imaging of wing development i

Mike fails a CAPTCHA and now must prove that he is human. Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New Wave.

Not only is evolution happening right now everywhere around us, but adaptive changes can occur in a population with remarkable speed. This speed is essential if you're a desert mouse living in an environment where a volcanic eruption can reverse selective pressure in nearly an instant. The film feat