The beating heart at the center of so many groundbreaking biological, medical, and psychological studies may not be a human's, but that of a rodent, a bird, even a fish or an insect. These essential collaborators rarely have an opportunity to add their thoughts to lab reports, so instead, we offer them our inaugural edition of Labocine to tell their stories. Here, we'll experience the perceptions of microbes, watch films made for and by non-human primates, travel with invertebrates investigating the human world, and see classic cognitive studies through the eyes of their subjects.
Macro, micro, natural, artificial, inside, outside. Invasion is an investigation into the lives of pathogens, bacteria, parasites and other creatures, but not in the way you'd expect. From the air to the lab, we are brought into a world that is claustrophobic and at times frightening. Who is being l
Gregor and Harold, two corals living in the underwater remains of Miami, share their dreams with each other. Made without any computer effects, using real coral specimens.
Here are a sequence of microscopy videos that depict C.elegans doing the following actions: mating partners with fluorescent labelled body wall muscles; omega turn of an adult worm; fluorescent imaging of neuromodulator release during mating; mating partners imaged in bright field; mating partners i
A parasite recounts her unsatisfactory meal as an infected human man is stricken by the fear of his approaching death.
A man catches hermit crabs which only live on a certain island in Japan. He releases them in his hotel room. Large numbers of hermit crabs are spread around and they move freely around the room; on the bed, on the desk, on the carpet, and sometimes they get into the refrigerator. Others drop from th
Primate Cinema: Apes as Family is a drama made expressly for chimpanzees – and the chimps' reaction to its screening at the Edinburgh Zoo. Chimpanzees watch television as a form of enrichment in captivity. But no filmmaker had made a film for a specifically ape audience. Commissioned by Arts C
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
Blank reproduces the sterile conditions of a genetic laboratory of molecular medicine. The room, the bodies and cells of the animals are subject to the strictest controls; everything has been created specially. In the film you will pass through a six-minute animal behavoir experimental setup and par
…moving on from the Macro Kingdom, we pass through the portal of a microscope to venture into the Micro Empire … surrounding us … inhabiting us … Stranger than fiction… molecular conflict and mitochondrial warfare … a heart-stopping, subcellular epic &hellip
Fig is different from other fruit flies, though he won't know until metamorphosis. This is his story.
The radial arm maze test is one of the most widely used tests for assessing anxiety, working memory and hippocampal plasticity. Initially placed at the centre of the maze, the entry of the mouse into one of the 8 paths triggers an edit in the human footage. The resulting human montage provides a uni
"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
A mouse explores a clear Plexiglas enclosure, initially staying close to the walls but eventually venturing into the centre. This is known as the "Open Field Test", a measure of the tension between two contradictory drives in most rodents -- they need to explore their environment versus the fear of