Our April Issue "Stories from the Eclipse" is a celestial canvas of the Science New Wave. As North America witnesses the mesmerizing eclipse on April 8th, this film program showcases over 50 bodies of works of all shapes, each an exploration of shadows, light, and the cosmic dance of celestial bodies. From evocative portrayals of lunar and solar eclipses to tales of personal transformation, join us as we explore the shared skies, where the eclipse serves as both a celestial event and a symbol of profound allegorical significance.
The 16mm film Radiant Exposures—Facts Run on Light Beams These Days (the latter part of the title quotes from Donna Haraway) returns to Rosa Barba's long-standing motifs of the desert and the exploration of modern archives as a manifestation of the human desire for progress. As in previous fil
Why is it that we can predict a solar eclipse centuries in advance, but we can only predict the weather about a week or two in advance? Can a small-scale movement, like the flap of a butterfly's wing, influence large-scale systems like hurricanes? In the 1960s, an MIT meteorologist exploring these q
On August 11, 1999, I put a reel of Super-8 film in my camera and stood in front of it to sum up my life for the past year, as I do every year. But this time I was disturbed by the eclipse...
Young Indian girl Naiá falls in love with the moon after listening to the story on how the stars in the sky came to be. Based on an indigenous legend from the Amazon Rainforest.
The event of the century is about to happen, a spectacular total solar eclipse. A girl is going to witness it with her grandmother, but she will have to confront her fear of darkness to truly enjoy the moment when it turns into night in the middle of the day. However, when that happens, both will co
The film UMBRA deals with rare and common optical phenomena that occur in nature. These phenomena evoke familiar images such as shadows or reflections on a water surface; but also unusual ones like the "Brocken spectre" or the pinhole effect during a solar eclipse. These ancient and natural projecti
Filmed at Waterford Regional Airport in Ireland, all artificial lights at and around the airport were turned off and a plane was positioned in a direction designed to catch the progressing morning light, but excluding the sun itself. Through the real-time recording of the slowly advancing morning li
Shadowland explores an impact of a Total eclipse of the Sun on the community of eclipse chasers in Faroe Islands. By appropriating the term "shadowland", a spatiotemporal space when Sun is fully eclipsed, the film depicts the variety of rituals people perform in order to engage with this cosmic even
May 29th, 2019, celebrated 100 years of the eclipse observed from Sobral, in the interior of Ceará, which was the first experimental proof of the Theory of General Relativity, proposed four years before by German physicist Albert Einstein.
The image of the coin appears in the video Eclipse (2013), which opens with a fixed camera showing a black grinder rotating against a white background. As the action slowly unravels, a coin held by a pair of pincers enters the frame, drawing an arc as it approaches the grinder's surface. The moment
A mysterious solar eclipse takes place and people's behaviour seems to change dramatically. A young man is trying to reach his girlfriend but he will be prevented by the violent people who have looked at the eclipse and try to make him look as well.
My world was jolted by two shadow images: one, thrilling, the other terrifying. After a years-long effort—with 200 other scientists—we made the first image of a black hole, its shadow of no return. Then I fell into debilitating pain. A deadly shadow blot appeared on an MRI of my spine. F
Layers successively overlap on top of each other. The more one digs, the further back in time one gets. The geological layering of portions of earth allow one to travel back in time. But the selection, the choice of which layer deserves to be looked at is nothing but political. To blind oneself to o
Inspired by humanities relationship with the sun throughout history, Nocturnal Sun explores a future, a not so distant past and the spaces in between where myth, magic and chaos reside and with it the possibility of deeper forms of human connection. Nocturnal Sun is an inter-disciplinary project cre
In an Indian village, about 200 km from Calcutta, various inhabitants are working diligently to produce by hand colourful and inventive toys: rattles, flutes and merry-go-rounds. Hundreds are made everyday, and the primary material used is old 35mm film reels full of Bollywood titles. The almost mon
Saaghi and her two friends have come to the largest park in Teheran to take pictures of the one-in-a-century total eclipse announced later in the afternoon. Mischievous and rebellious, they steal a camera stand, lie to their parents and discuss boys as well as an upcoming party. Their wanderings lea
In an arid desert, the Sun Goddess rises and begins her journey, crossing arid expanses, attracted by a light that leads her to her solar temple where she will complete her daily journey.
"Awe sets the star's face aglow Stars are like humanity Since always and for eternity Only they do not know." Eight-year-old Lena is fascinated by space; her favorite book describes the secret connection between people and stars. As a solar eclipse nears, she takes her father to watch the event. The
An old man takes his grandson to witness a solar eclipse in this gorgeously rendered view of life in a small town in India. Mr. Pathak is a retired civil engineer and lives in Taregna, a small town in India. He is worn out by life's many setbacks and is indifferent to his family – Laxmi , his
In the Mojave Desert in California there are thousands of huge solar panels that follow the sun. They Shine registers their movement like a slow dance based on a sophisticated choreography, punctuated by the comments of local people about these strange devices. The desert is not only a place that is
"A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours (86,400 seconds)." The movement of spheres and the inclusion of a visible observation of the effect of time in imagery that would typically be static is what is interesting to me in making
The father of neuroscience Santiago Ramon y Cajal shares a story about the Solar Eclipse on July 18, 1860. "The third event that also had an important moral effect on me was the eclipse of the Sun in the year 60. It had been announced in the newspapers and was awaited with great impatience in the to
Rusty machines living in their small houses imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light keeps them alive and dreaming. But one of the machines wants to see the sun itself and has a plan.
Digitally and energetically, light and its origins drive our circadian rhythms, our internal clocks, and affect the retina. Notably, blue light, in the realm of 400 to 500 nanometers, has become increasingly pervasive, just as our light sources have homogenized. How might this unwind us?
We look the sun in the eye with music in our ear. The music is by Attwenger. The track entitled SUN, a litany sung in a broad Upper Austrian accent, tells about a hot day upon which one stares into the sun until everything turns red and the glowing heavenly body resembles a pistol or an eye. The vid
Aurora, a 10 year old indigenous girl, investigates the meaning of sacred calendars, the way they govern community life in harmony and balance with Mother Earth. Exploring her culture with pride and joy, Aurora, together with cosmogonic beings and wise men, discovers her identity, independence and r
A self-taught astronomical photographer finds a new challenge when the chance to capture a rare Blood Moon eclipse presents itself. Andrew McCarthy's (@cosmic_background) inventive and eye-catching images of the cosmos have helped him go from a complete newbie to arguably the internet's most popular
Clarita is twelve years old and lives in Rosario, Province of Santa Fe, with her parents and sisters. Her greatest interest in the whole world is Astronomy –a passion she discovered thanks to Proyecto Miradas, an experimental and playful workshop for children, led by Sofía and Yayo. Wha
How simple is it to make what is happening look suspicious, when harmless shapes are transformed in the bustle of image compression artefacts into dark shadows and a disco light palm becomes an association with explosions? It starts with red, signaling a reason for caution, and it ends in only three
In silent symphony, the sun begins to wane, While Luna's gentle touch paints shadows arcane, They intertwine, in celestial embrace, In Prospect Park's serene, enchanted space. Behold! The solar eclipse, a spectacle rare, Each moment whispers secrets in the air, A choreography of shadow and light, In
I was imagining a collaboration of parallel worlds or a kind of doubled consciousness, a sense of the corporeal and the riddle of absence. The body of the film depends on a spine of interlocking contrasts in the form of negative and positive space, day and night shots, under and above water elements
My Moon is an eight minute 2D animated short film, about the relationship between three celestial bodies, the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon. The story revolves around the sad nature of the way they have to co-exist, as the Earth needs both emotional and practical values from both the Sun and Moon. Pr
During a mahjong game, a bad situation occurs. Everyone waits for the last player to show up. The three have no choice but to wait and sit there silently in tears. However, they do believe that the fourth player will come. They look up to the sky waiting for this miracle to happen
During a solar eclipse a girl decides to put her powers to the test in the northern wilderness. She takes on the ultimate challenge, a fierce and formidable musk ox.
A filmmaker explores astrophysical metaphors to make sense of a failed relationship to person and place.
A procession of men in white clothing walk a young woman in a strange procession. In this obscure landscape, a perpetual biological universe will transform her body.
The range of symbols is manifold and multi-layered, it is a film that utilises many fades, dissolves and double exposures. The "Galactic Northpole"- a fiction of astronomy, an assertion; Berenice had sacrificed her hair on the alter of a goddess in order to gain her approval. One becomes the victim
One day the sun turned black. White people must pigment themselves or die. A daughter does. Her father refuses.
In the Chilean Patagonia, this dark tale explores the videogame addiction of Nicolas, and his healing path when he meets a local shaman on the day of a Solar Eclipse. It all starts in Chilean Patagonia. Nicolás, a young man trapped by his darkness, is left alone at home when his sister Isabel
Light patterns that show up around the Sun, technically called parhelia, are a natural phenomenon that has fascinated mankind for at least 2300 years, since Aristotle's time. In cold regions, sunlight interacts with small ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere and, under certain conditions, gives
In very rare occasion, total eclipse of the Moon happen in the Milky Way. That what this video is showing under a perfect sky in Tadjikistan at 3700m above sea level.
The lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film. In the 4th c BCE Aristotle founded The Lyceum, a school for the study of all natural phenomena pursued without the aid of mathematics, which was considered too perfect
A young woman and a little girl are playing football. When the ball flies into the air the black and white sequence transmutes into the red of the evening sky. High up in the air a bird is flying. The bird belongs to a dream. The beginning is programmatic. The various events flow seamlessly into one
Filmed in the Andean Mountains in the traditional lands of the Atacameño, Aymara, and Calchaquí-Diaguita in Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina, ALTIPLANO takes place within a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts, and coloured lakes. Fusing earth with sky, d
A son revisits a long-estranged father, on the day of an impending solar eclipse. An event of cosmic significant coincides with an emotional revelation for father and son.
Eclipses are still given great importance in India. Even in the 21st century, people still believe in eclipses. A pregnant woman has to starve during the eclipse and stay in a dark room all day so that the sun's rays do not fall on her. Eclipse is the story of one such superstitious family. Who's fa
A lunar eclipse obscures the relation between a lion and its tamer. In the darkness of a lunar eclipse, the circus act of the lion tamer turns into an ambiguous game of hide and seek. Intermittent light reveals movement, the shapes of the lion and its tamer forever mutating as they chase one another
Hitting the streets exactly one year following its recording, Third Man is proud to present a full length document of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse in Nashville, TN as interpreted by Quintron's Weather Warlock, a handmade weather-sensitive analog synthesizer. The A side, Path of Complete T
In a universe that looks like nothingness, two beings seem to exist only to come into contact.
A short dance film experimenting with light and movement.
The sun is reflected in an Andalusian thermo-solar power plant whose architecture reminds us of ancient alchemical engravings, like a sacred temple of the 21st century. From its radiance come the voices of an antimatter physicist and an ecofeminist evoking their reflections on collapse, time and ene
Solar Walk shows the journey of individuals and their creations on through time and space. Any meaning of action is only existent from the perspective of the individual, but never mandatory when looking at it from the perspective of a solar system. It's about the melancholy of accepting chaos as bea
"Shutter" tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse. "Shutter" is a formal exploration of the phenomenon of the sun eclipsing objects in the natural world. Inspired by footage of friend and amateur astronomer Andreas Gada's 16mm recording of the 19
"Essere e Tempo" is a sequence of the lunar eclipse happened on March, 20th 2015. It was shot at the astronomical observatory OACL (Mosciano Sant'Angelo - Italy) in collaboration with the astronomer Giorgio Clemente. It's a visual metaphor of the Being according to Parmenides, as a mean that becomes
As Paul Auster once said "The sun is the past, the earth is the present and the moon is the future." Kiss sets out to explore something as innocent as a kiss, based on a modest but omnipresent theme – a love story. Inspired by the world around us, and presented in an ominously dark world
A young girl called Sarah experiences a unexpected and mysterous black-out during a total solar eclipse. Years later as a reclusive adult she prepares for the next eclipse hoping to reconnect to her younger self and find personal closure.
Standing still in front of the open window, a woman stares at the dark clouds that obscure the sky. Immobile, she fights against the remembrances of the past. In the clouds, a passionate embrace appears.