This program explores the color fields of light, texture, and motion, inviting audiences to immerse themselves in the (in)visible spectrum from every perspective— in front of, behind, and within the image. Each film, split into RGB, reveals inner workings, embraces potential glitches, inhabits otherworldly landscapes, and recalibrates our (human/nonhuman) perception of color. Through the prism, everything feels natural and artificial, unreal, hyper-real, and deeply human.
A personal study in vanishing and appearing, through Italian light and some birdwatching. Acts of recording, things fleetingly seen and felt, while inscribing the corpus-anima in sunlight through refracting glass and water, and multiple exposures. The work draws on Marsilio Ficino's 1494 book on sun
Marcel Duchamp once described the relationship between the possible and what is actually occurring as "inframince", or razor-thin. The dimension of Gregor Eldarb's experimental arrangement is equally minimal, namely "thinner than two ten-thousandths of a millimetre" – as indicated by the title
At the "Science Playground" at the New York Hall of Science, in Queens, New York, United States. 40.7473° N, 73.8517° W. This playground serves as a hybrid site of play and education, where people of all ages can explore simple machines and scientific principles related to the built and natu
Blue is the result of a collaborative process with women who have experienced postpartum depression. The director organizes a cyanotype workshop for these mothers to create their own images that illustrate their condition: from their fears, dreams and experiences through the different shades of blue
A color explosion sparkles, bubbles and fractures in this hand-crafted 16mm film. Reeves utilized an array of mediums and direct-on-film techniques to create this boisterous, psychedelic morsel of cinema as material. Reeves' soundtrack mixes samples from rusty, dusty old machines, records and electr
"When you stare at a screen for long, the screen stares back at you." It's late. You've been working on that numbers the whole day. The screen in front of you seems to be vibrating. You close your eyes. The after-image on your retina keeps pulsating in iridescent colors. You call it a day and go hom
Secrets of experiencing and the wandering of mind from an initial landing place through haptic view of the lens.
A chant to the moon ritualizing the crumbling effigies of patriarchy, opens the first scene of Venus Rising. A woman is seen summoning new life as she dances in a cloud of microbes. What is hidden becomes visible as her rhythmic and undulating body conjures natural forces. Electromagnetic phenomena
The film begins with the burying of my brother's ashes, symbolizing both literal and metaphorical renewal. This ritual act unfolds into a transformative journey through powerful notions of the primitive, the romance and fragility of life and death, and the incorruptibility of nature aiming to bring
I chose the name Super Natural as I am introducing the super saturated colors into our natural environment. I work with the elements of wind and natural light creating the fog of color on location in each setting, as well as, working with eco-friendly materials. The Super Natural mist brings a trans
For twenty years, the programVoces del Secuestrohas allowed family members to send radio messages that they hope will reach their loved ones kidnapped in the Amazon jungle. This is an experimental documentary that pairs these radio messages with abstract portraits of the Colombian landscape.
Pixela-zzz is a film which explores the digital frame as a perfect formulation of pixels and how this can be broken and distorted. Through exploring the processes of datamoshing and databending, we are shown figures which mosh and melt into one another. As the figures move closer towards us, the cam
"In Colors" reveals the struggle of a young woman to transcend the space between herself and others. An instinctual decision to take part in a clinical study leads her to the home office of an unusual psychologist whose invasive survey conjures sharp, fragmented memories. Soon she finds herself face
An unearthed time capsule, containing long-buried footage of the maker's youthful self, reveals an exquisite corpse with nature as collaborator. A metaphysical pas-de-deux in which decay undermines the integrity of the image but in the process initiates a transmutation.
Exchange is a visual and informative illustration of air as the common bond between photosynthetic and respiratory organisms. The exchange of gases in the air -- carbon dioxide for oxygen, and oxygen for carbon dioxide -- between plants and animals is the most fundamental symbiosis on the planet.
Light from molecules creates a spectrum (a 'spectre' or 'ghost') that can be recorded with sensitive detectors in our laboratory. The word 'spectrum' is derived from a time when light dispersed through a prism was called a 'spectre' or 'ghost'. This movie visualises spectra or light energy patterns
"TWENTY THREE" is a visual interpretation of loss of childhood inspired by alice in wonderland and IU-twenty three. It continues the story of yellow with eerie, cultural, playful and nostalgic elements.
Color Condition is a glimpse into the sensory overlap experienced by someone with the neural condition, synesthesia. Synesthetics have an overlapping sensory modality in which stimulation of one sense involuntarily, and simultaneously, triggers another. However, the scientific explanation does littl
A young woman comes across animations on the Internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. A stranger with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death is quicker than the answer to the question: "Why?"
One night, a 30 year old Paleolithic man, living alone in the jungles, discovers a mysterious black liquid gurgling from inside his cave. At first contact, he finds himself immersed in a transcendent journey of exploration.
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
During experiments on the axons of the longfin squid in Woods Hole, we were taken in by the beauty of the fast changing color of the skin. The squid's skin contains many colorful light-reflecting cells called chromatophores. We wanted to try to stimulate the fin nerve directly from our iPod. The res
A journey through the electromagnetic spectrum~ Created in one week with scientist Matt Ahearn for Imagine Science's 2016 Symbiosis Film Competition. Cinematography by Nona Catusanu & Cidney Hue Narrated by Lauren Sowa Starring Big Hair Girls: Lizzy Lightyear & Venus + Matt Ahrean as Scientist Cosmi
3D FILM REQUIRES GLASSES: This film was designed to be viewed with ChromaDepth 3D glasses which the director will provide the festival audience (and screeners). With ChromaDepth 3D glasses, the red seems to float in front of the screen as the blue recedes into the depths. It's a magical 3D illusion
NYC RGB is part of a series of works in which Viktoria Schmid deals with historical color film processes. Using a special technique of color separation through RGB filters, the real temporal dimension can be concentrated on a cinematic triple exposure. The film strip was sent through the camera thre
Inspired by the 1930s three-strip technicolor process, this colour separation dance film was choreographed, performed, and printed by the artist. A red, green, and blue version of the dance were choreographed separately and filmed onto black and white 16mm film through their respective colour-separa
Archaeological excavation of the many layers of narratives surrounding uranium, with threads back to the Soviet Union and nuclear weapons programmes. The white, radioactive metal uranium radiates like a sun in the darkness under ground while the planet Uranus travels across the sky. From 1946 to 199
Tracing Birds in Isolation is a hand processed and printed 16mm film that starts somewhere resembling a traditional field study of sea birds then ascends through the color spectrum into a psychedelic technicolor frenzy of flying forms, that swoop and glide as their abstracted forms merge into one an
Supplementary Movie 4: Ex vivo colour change of an adult male Furcifer pardalis (Panther Chameleon) white skin sample induced by increasing osmolarity of the medium from 236 mOsm to 944 mOsm. The original video is accelerated 30x. The inset shows a 10x magnification of a single cell. This experiment
DVD copy protection meets inadequate software, rendering a digital transfer useless and causing series of most unusual revolutions.
Supplementary Movie 1: In vivo colour change in a Furcifer pardalis (Panther Chameleon) adult male under excitation upon presentation of another adult male in its vision field. The original video is stabilised and accelerated 8 times. The first frame of the movie is shown in the lower-right for a be
"This film, done in the fine tradition of hand-painted images and sound, deals with Western man's fetish for technology ." —Keith Lock & Jim Anderson.
A cameraless video that uses shaders and feedback to push out against the edges of the screen.
Dozens of files from computers recycle bin such as images, texts files, installers and files of all kinds undergo a forced transformation. All this digital garbage, through the subversion of software, is transformed into abstract sounds, images and videos, simulating a kind of recycling in the virtu
Ever wonder what the world might look like beyond the visible light spectrum? Cameras can capture UV and infrared light beyond the ability of the human eye, revealing the secrets of the cosmos and our own macro universe. With amazing visuals and illuminating science "Out of Sight" explores the bound
Kren filmed, in microscopic detail the reflection and refraction of the light in/on a glass bottle. However, the bottle itself (the whole body) is never seen. What is seen is much more the emanations of light from the glass and its clarity. (Michael Palm) Hans Scheugl: They say you were drunk when y
Primary colored dots are expanding into tiny complex structures as a reaction to increasing pressure. When different colors overlap, new colors emerge that consist of two or more primary layers and therefore expand in different ways. The process continues to produce rich structures and compositions
"typhoon diary 风球日记" travels through various dream-states to explore the narrator's personal connection to rain as a medium for both dissociation and transformation.
A rainy morning in Rio de Janeiro; film as a membrane, a memory veil, imprinted by the body and the environment. The title is a reference to the performative cloaks/capes of the late Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica, made of various materials including fabric, paper, and plastic. This handmade
Jacques, a mysterious inventor, is setting up a strange antenna in his garden. The wind comes; the signal for departure is given. In the midst of interferences and a rain of pixels, starts a mysterious odyssey whose tempo is given by the hands of the inventor, that tirelessly scroll upon his machine
A ceaselessly panning camera takes a journey through the seasons of the year in one continuous long take.
The visual Umwelt of a mythic, chimerical bird-snake. Imagine what the world looks like through the eyes of the plumed serpent. What would happen if you add up the optical sensitivities of a bird that can see into the ultraviolet and a snake that can sense infrared. You could get something as in thi
Origami plays with perspectives and dimensions. Fractals and luminous geometry are here liquefied by the cathode ray tube of a hacked television set.
An exploration of a space through colour and the memories left in its absence. ... Credits: Directed by: Sapan Taneja, Tanya Dixit Cinematography: Sapan Taneja Edited by: Oishee Nandy, Tanya Dixit Produced by: Ctrl ज़, Simran Ankolkar Sound Design: Tanya Dixit
The diagnosis of an eye disorder incited this meditation on fear and beauty. Glimpses of curious and creative souls peek out of countless hand-painted film frames. Infinite colors and textures burst, blend, and challenge the primacy of uniform vision.
A humorous, digitally induced meditation on colours, motion and space from a few frames of road-side fall panorama in upstate New York
Art video based on chemical reaction between fluorescein and quinine sulfate in water and vaselin, under ultraviolet light.
Martin Chalfie, the luminary scientist who discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), offers a mesmerizing journey through his life's trajectory. Beginning with his humble childhood, Chalfie reminisces about his early fascination with science and the pivotal moments that ignited his curiosity. As t
Celluloid film is reconfigured into a graphic musical score, with obscure narratives emerging as the film is reanimated. 35mm, 16mm, std 8mm, super 8mm and 9.5mm gauge films are hand edited, glued, taped and scraped together into one continuous 6 meter collage, before digital stop motion brings the
Color Test Program is a purist, analog short film that takes a humorous look at Austrian television history. An ORF (Austrian national public broadcaster) interview recorded in 1969 about the ongoing switch to color television was ironically filmed on black and white film. Through hand coloring, the
Who´s Afraid Of RGB continues a direction clearly evident in THE and TOUTES DIRECTIONS (2014 and 2017, both created together with Dieter Kovacic), digital works through which Billy Roisz specifically engages cinema and its formulas. Paralleling her previous treatment of the horror film and the
Over three years, Joshua Gen Solondz's film is a crowded collage of gurgling paint, jagged splices, errant sprocket holes, and puzzling images that conjure the densely material frames of the late queer avant-garde filmmaker Luther Price.
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
Shobuj / Holud (Green / Yellow) recalls a daydream. The images are created using an intricate process of layering cameraless photography exposures with digitally animated line drawings. This collagic approach echoes the theme of the work, which exists at the thresholds of indoor-outdoor, real-virtua
Making the invisible, visible! Images of butterfly wings at the microscopic scale are stunning, and at the nanoscopic scale they become otherworldly. The colorful images in the animated short Nanoscapes were taken with light and electron microscopes at magnifications up to 50,000x. From iridescent b
2022 | 5 min. | Super 8mm | 18fps | Color | Sound Oceanic patterns come in waves of chroma blurs and ultraviolet light, illuminating marine life in states of change. Notes: Washed-up pieces of bleached coral, urchins, and abalone enter tide pools offering evidence of acidification in the warming wat
This metaphor, this esotericism of the "sun behind the sun" captures the hidden, primal essence of meaning, its role as both the unseen engine and the ultimate aim of all linguistic and symbolic effort. Language reflects and refracts meaning, much like the visible sun reflects the invisible forces a
Warning: The stroboscopic nature of this film may be unsuitable for some viewers. prime perfect was largely a black and white flicker film. prime perfect 2 is a primary color flicker film. Frames numbers that are prime numbers are red. Frames numbers that are perfect numbers are white. Frames number
How do we influence the world around us? A flow analysis tool ordinarily used in the laboratory offers new interpretations of human interaction and our place in the world. This film was made as part of the 2023 Symbiosis initiative presented at the Science New Wave Festival XVI (Imagine Science Film
They say, if cephalopods had a language, they would conquer the world. They also say, artificial intelligence will take over one day. What if the two incidents were actually just one? do they speak color ? is a film about the questionable possibility of communication across space, time and species.