All perception mediates between self and external reality, but among humans vision holds a unique position. Despite the thought-ordering power of spoken language, it is still the visual world that shapes our experience most directly, to the extent that we treat the optic nerve as direct line between the world and cognition. It is no coincidence that we say "the way I see it" when we actually mean "the way I think it". This did not escape media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who observed that we go so far in conflating the psychological and visual as to call forward-thinkers "visionaries", and to say "always" when we actually mean all-times. Thus the visual world, the eye, and more recently that precision artificial eye-ball, the camera, map our interior experience, even as the brain reshapes what we see and perceive in turn. We will open 2018 with a fresh viewpoint (thought-point), a view of the act of seeing itself. Of looking outwards: unaided, through optical devices that open windows onto larger or smaller worlds, through the reflecting surfaces of the latest technologies, or even by more abstract means: visualization of the unseeable and the visual memories of the blind. Join us. Watch a few films. Seeing, after all, is believing.
"The eternal bond between people, stars and telescopes." Since ancient times we have been gazing at the stars. We dream of unveiling the secrets of the universe. After the boom of space research programs in the early 70's, astronomy became popular worldwide and thus the desire to unveil the mysterie
How – and why – did humanity invent cameras? Artist and philosopher Ali Hossaini offers a personal view of his research into the origins of visual media. Journey through 6,000 years of history to discover how optics evolved from efforts to tame nature by controlling visual space.
The eye is linked to light and can be seen as an instrument. How can the brain play tricks with our eyes? A Fascinating trip with the perception of danger. A movie from Marine Koenig (Filmmaker), Laetitia Grabot (Scientist), Hélène Louis (Scientist) & Loic Carrera Film produced as part
In 2005, Tanya Vlach loses an eye in a horrific car accident. As an artist and photographer, she approaches the loss as an opportunity to explore the possibility of turning her prosthetic eye into an intraocular camera. Her exciting journey into the field of wearable tech changes her life, forever a
In Quantum Fluctuations, particle simulations are used to visualise the distinct micro-events that occur in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during a proton collision. Made as a series of conceptual experiments, the film aims to show the complexity and abstract nature of these unobservable aspects of
Digital projection takes over the movie screens world wide. As celluloid slowly disappears from her workplace, the director, a movie projectionist herself embarks on an investigation into what makes the material special. Digital projection is taking over the movie screens world wide. As the material
Apariciones is a cinematographic essay on the question of what apparitions are, or what might they be. It's a filmed documentation of the verbs "to appear" and "to disappear." This film challenges itself by trying to make visible and perceptible these unseizable and sometimes invisible subjects. Apa
If we could shrink by 10 million times, we would be able to visit a living human cell, as if it were a small planet. In this movie, based on scientific data and an animation technique developed for biological visualization, viewers can get a glimpse of some of the wanders that such trip could offer.
Before I started with graduation I got in contact with a blind man called Henk. He told me about his life. Because of my conversation with him I got interrested in how he lives his life. The animation is about a little trip a blind person makes to get somewhere. With this animation I won the The Dio
An experimental documentary, The Lanthanide Series examines the materiality of the digital world, combining approaches of non-fiction narrative essay, abstract visual and sound exploration, and the history of black mirrors. Each chapter of the film is based on one of the fifteen metallic chemical el
Through the mirror was created in a science lab, it is by the interrelation between the eye, the camera, and cells captured through mirrors that a journey develops. Repetition, reflections, movements, and gradient of colors: all traversed the cells, showing how the most minimal part of our bodies re
Tatiana McCabe's mixed media video, titled Restoring Sight in Bangladesh (2012) uses documentary footage, motion graphics and stop motion animation to explore the issue of cataract blindness in Bangladesh. McCabe's interest in socially conscious filmmaking comes to life through her writing, cinemato
IN, OVER AND OUT is a film experiment in the tradition of structural cinema. It is made up of a limited number of carefully planned motifs, each of them shot simultaneously with twelve cameras from different technical periods. An homage to the Lumière Brothers' WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY, th
Microsculpture is a unique visual experience. The beautifully lit, high magnification portraiture of Levon Biss captures the microscopic form of insects in striking high-resolution detail. The film shows Levon Biss and his pioneering photographic technique as he captures beautifully lit high magnifi
A day in the life of the world's most prolific spider scientist reveals the beauty and importance of a dying craft. "What No One's Ever Seen Before" follows the daily routine of Dr. Norman Platnick, Curator Emeritus of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Through his sunr
We all have a biological identity - a genetic hardware that can not be easily changed. About half of Drosophila's brain is dedicated to vision. What they can see, is who they are. What about us? a film by Janne Pulkkinen Hannes Vartiainen Pekka Veikkolainen Huayi Wei with Nefertiti Matos Olivares mu
"Art, medicine and engineering collide to create beautiful artificial eyes" A small, highly skilled team at Moorfields Eye Hospital transform the lives of people who have lost their eyes to accidents and disease. Each year, they work with their clients to create around 1,400 customised, detailed pro
How much do we really want others to know about us and what do we want to know about them? In the aftermath of a disaster causing everyone to loose their perception filters various characters tell us about their experience and new lifes. This animated film is a mockumentary about human perception an
Imagine that there has always been a screen between your face and your surroundings, that you have never seen the face of your lover or looked at your own eyes in the mirror. The future doesn't look much different from today in INTERFACE, but every human head is shielded from the outside world by a
Night will soon fall over a peaceful beach town. But where have all the people gone? And what are these creatures lurking just out of sight, seemingly making themselves at home?
Night Vision by Jake Fried 2015. Hand-drawn animation with ink and white-out. Sound design by the artist. More at inkwood.net facebook.com/jakefriedanimation instagram.com/jakejfried
A short futuristic film featuring Augmented reality and Gamification.
Exploring notions of observation, distance, and perception, Atlas is sited around a specific physical object in the history of optics and vision. This object is the first accurate 'map' of the retinal surface, traced using a camera lucida by Richard Liebreich, and published as the Atlas of Ophthalmo