The Body Festival

In FLEXIBLE BODIES a high-rise building protrudes out of its surroundings as a strange object. It's the (already dated) materialized utopia of an ideal workspace, dreams of career opportunities and selfoptimization echoing through the hallways. In and around the building bodies converge: working, ex

Antibiotic resistance explained through dance and art. The Antibiotic Apocalypse is upon us... Our widespread ABUSE of antibiotics has resulted in the emergence of resistant bacteria, which are no longer susceptible to these therapies. In an attempt to showcase this major health concern... Game Dr a

Lake Urmia in Northern Iran was once the biggest lake of the Middle East. But human influence has set its course and brought the drought. Nowadays just 5% of the original lake remain. The rest is dried out and covered by salt. It became a political symbol all over the country. This cinematic essay o

This documentary tells the story of nine parts of the body of persons who have suffered irrevocable changes during the year. Animations of body transformations —through growth, aesthetic or pathological changes —are illustrated with testimonies and images of some of the spaces that surro

Paco Mora, an internationally renowned Spanish flamenco dancer, gave up his career to take care of his mother, Carmen, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He provides daily to all her needs, while trying to keep dancing. With her, he decides to put on a show to realize Carmen's frustrated dream of b

The video piece is a poetic documentary which explores various representations of the body offered in the different learning contexts in the preclinical curriculum of the medical school, moving through so-called discovery learning, clinical skills and anatomy lab experiences.

In Brazil, the inhabitants of Teewald, a German colony founded at the end of the 19th century, are still proud of their Germanic roots. Starting with the text of German-Turkish researcher Ilhami Paker, which uses irony to analyse different migratory movements, the film questions the complex process

The Arabic term jinn means "invisible beings." The jinn are sentient beings who are composed from subtle matter. Before Islam, they were worshiped as gods, as tutelary deities, or as spiritual protectors not only in the Arabian Peninsula but also in neighboring areas…. In Qu'ran… there

Germano paints a portrait of a scientist. The film features Dr. Germano Cecere, a geneticist from Italy who runs a lab at The Institut Pasteur in Paris. He researches how we inherit lived experiences, or epigenetics, and is rethinking theories of inheritance. Yet, the film does not solely revolve ar

Canada's National Ballet School is world-renowned for training ballerinas. Now people with Parkinson's Disease are learning to dance in the NBS studios. Through animation watch what happens in the brain of a dance student with Parkinson's.

A software engineer discovers that the internet has become conscious... and wants to test-drive human bodies. This web pilot combines absurdist performance, machine learning, and live data-mining of dialogue from Twitter to tell the darkly comic modern love story of one couple's radical experiment i

Using the dancing body as a metaphor, The Circadian Cycle examines morphology, biological rhythm and animal behaviour. The film charts a day from sunrise to evening, moving through cycles of nature, from nascence and awakening to predation and death.

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

Foreign bodies was created using video light painting and modern medical imaging (CT, MRI, cryosection), generating a mythical landscape of transparent bodies, and instilling a sense of strangeness that our own bodies can sometimes inspire.

An experimental documentary, a visual poem about an encounter with a city that will not be seen but present through its sounds and the thermal prints of one of its inhabitants' mapped body.

'Foreign Bodies, Common Ground' has set up six artist residencies in six Wellcome Trust-funded research centres as a way of teasing out some of the more personal, philosophical, cultural and political dimensions of health research. This exciting project is born out of Wellcome Collection's desire to

Bartholomew Whisper went to the doctor today. There he met administrators keen on experimental surgery, and lonely MRI machines. At least the growing hole in his head was becoming quite beautiful.

A human shadow wakes up in the middle of a giant empty factory, at the foot of a monolith that reflects his silhouette endlessly. He bears the marks of a time that has passed : the traces of a makeup that now deceives facial recognition.

A project spanning three years of production and research, Lion explores the Chernobyl disaster and the nature of radiation, recollection, and personal history. Lion navigates atomic fallout and a girl's adolescence, a dream before death, radiation as a cause and a cure for cancer, masculine bravado

After collapsing during rehearsals, a young dancer struggles to make sense of her mysterious medical condition and her even more enigmatic hospital roommate.

Miguel attends his first yoga class.

A delivery man, perched on an electric wheel, crosses a city, then a countryside strewn with debris, scraps, sick plants. Still as a tightrope walker, he makes his way through this post-apocalyptic landscape. Until his last delivery.

This short film is about the apparent incoherence of coma. A woman in a bright red dress, figures wearing cold hospital clothes, a forest, a lake, and muted, distant voices unconnected to the image are among the contrasting elements brought together here. What may be logical to one person can seem i

"Our Body is a Planet" is an art/science collaboration between Léonie Hampton of Still/Moving and scientists at the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter. This short film challenges the way we think of ourselves as individual genetically prescribed entities, independent

My Mind's Eye: A Series of Video Interviews. Episode 1 - The Mind-Body Problem: An interview with Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science at NYU nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/

A consciousness reflects on the collected memories of the sentient cosmic explorers it has harvested experiences from. An otherworldly vision of the power of light and the weight of planets.

What makes people good at changing their speech? What is the impact on emotion and identity when people switch from one mode of speaking to another? This is a short documentary focused on a new research project into these questions, and featuring a peek into the data.