The Brain is the Screen

Micro-vasculature of the mouse brain, showing capillaries, and their reconstruction. Credit: Nicolas Renier and Christoph Kirst, The Rockefeller University

This video is being generated as part of the Aesthusion project. Aesthusion is a wireless, portable, battery-powered wearable device. This researched-based project is an exploration at the intersection of art, technology, and neuroscience, aimed at redefining the boundaries of human perception and e

A neurologist who has largely avoided Alzheimers patients in his career ultimately develops the difficult disease himself, and transforms his life into an observation of his decline as well as an advocacy for the future and for the joy of living in the moment.

From Rio de Janeiro's beaches to the Amazon wildlife crossing though the urban jungle of Sao Paolo, Copa 2014 explores the state of science and art in Brazil as the World Cup takes over the country. Soccer becomes not only an obsession but also a distraction, a fear, a hope and the platform to discu

What would you do if you were told you had a dramatically life-shortening illness when you were 32 years old? Start making comic books about it of course! Well, that's what Gordon did anyway. Gordon is a Scottish comic book artist with a big bushy beard, very expressive eyebrows—oh, and an ino

Wandering through the body puzzling out a system of symbols. The trouble is, affect resists signification outright. The inside and outside become muddled when you start to feel your body in relation to the image. This film is an exploration of the body, specifically the affective register of bodily

A rendering of the possibilities of the Whole Brain Catalog ( http://wholebraincatalog.org ), an open source, multi-scale virtual catalog of the mouse brain. Part of the Whole Brain Project ( http://wholebrainproject.org ).

A meditation on the end of life. Brain Heart Lungs is a visual music film set to an original score by the composer-animator. In an era of electronic imaging, transplants, and implants, much has changed in the contemporary view of our physical selves. Brain Heart Lungs delves under the skin, beyond r

The scientific breakthrough in the 1990s that let us reconstruct the brain's wiring did so simplifying the anatomy assuming that nerve fibers in each imaging voxel had a single main orientation. With more advanced scanning options and processing options, it became possible to tease out crossing fibe

I invite you is a sensory journey that illustrates the challenges that the brain faces in our everyday conversations, where the linguistic signal is often unclear, disrupted or obstructed.

In the highly original universe that Polish director and animator Katarzyna Miechowicz creates in Headprickles, it's better not to ask why. A series of ultra-short scenes pass by: A man likes to listen to the song of his peach pits. A mermaid sculptor works underwater on a collection of sculptures o

The father of neuroscience Santiago Ramón y Cajal wakes up one day with magnified vision. Based on the short story "The Corrected Pessimist" by Santiago Ramon y Cajal Voice over : Carlos Bardem / Brain Images by Jeffrey Lichtman / Animation by Shiv Kachiwala

Augusto and Paulina have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and his wife has since become his caretaker. As one of Chile's most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of

"We can think of singers in a choir as neurons in the brain. Like these singers, neurons have to work together to create harmony, and once they do, the results are magnificent!" When neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain communicate with each other, they generate synchronised electrical activities k

This film is about the depressive experience and explores visually the mental languages experienced by those who suffer from clinical depression. The film sets out to relate to any person how the experience feels and to what intensity. It is an educational film, an experimental film, and an artistic

A neuroscientist and a filmmaker try to understand the human face.

A deadly accident between a self-driving car and a pedestrian sets off an investigation about the role of human workers in the training of driverless cars. Testimonies from vehicle operators guide us through a night shift where the landscape merges with data from the car's sensors.

How many neurons do you need to recognize your mother? "A Sentimental Science" explores the limitations of our understanding of how our experience is encoded in neural activity. ISFF13 Symbiosis

This film shows brain activation patterns from fMRI while listening to music composed in different emotional categories for a neuroscience study conducted at Columbia University with Dr. Matthew Sachs. The study commissioned 3 composers to write this music to better understand the link between brain

Pictures escape from a dream. A curious forest made out of neurons where the young director wanders every night. A dream that brings together brain and cinema, memories and scientific experiments. She tries to understand the link which is being woven between Neuroscience and films. A poetic journey

"From Past to Future, passing us like Ghosts" is a dissociative experimental arrangement in the genre of abstract experimental film. Conceived for cinema, the work suspends our visual/linguistic understanding of meaning and allows us to ask: What can we perceive if we do not understand? What is hidd

Night, a full moon shown in long shot. In the film's single motionless take, when the slow procession of clouds opens up the view of the moon and then blocks it again, a viewer trained in film history might expect her own eye to be cut – the image that Luis Buñuel in Un chien andalou pr

Absurd adventures of three people inhabitating the same small town by the sea. Una lives a quiet life with her hairy partner; the idyll is interrupted when, for unknown reasons, she starts feeling a peculiar anxiety about her own foot.

A metallic tetrahedron floats through a milky abyss. All is calm – until this geometric form suddenly deconstructs, atomizing into billions of fragments. What was once a negative space is now dense with chaos. All that was rational and understood has come undone. This is the beginning of a jou

The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmica

THE DIVIDED BRAIN is a mind-altering odyssey about one man's quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains, and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental and social issues; ones that shape our very future as a species. THE DIVIDED

Mo is an adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder. They spend a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.

This short documentary focuses on the research of acclaimed Dutch neuroscientist Floris de Lange. In his 'Prediction lab' he explores what predictions do with our perception. Inspired by the film 'Robocop' in his teens, De Lange became interested in the human brain and the question of whether you co

Derek Dabkoski enrolls in a year long, double blind medical study of the effects of modified stem cell surgery to treat traumatic brain injuries in the hopes he might regain the function lost after the brutal mugging that left him partially paralyzed on his right side. What he discovers, ultimately,

A student, unaware that she is epileptic, tries to get through another day. The film is structured in five sections, after the phases of a seizure.

The film Inscapes was created to help solve an immediate, practical problem inherent to a branch of neuroimaging research called "resting state" functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Usually for these scans, subjects lay inside the MRI magnet and look at what we call a fixation cross (a stat

The Living Brain tells the inspiring story of William and Jean and their involvement in a unique study of the ageing brain led by Professor Ian Deary. As in life, the brain has many branches and connections; both William and Jean sat the Scottish Mental Survey at the age of 11, William in 1932 and J

Carlotta's Face is an animated short film by brain scientist Valentin Riedl and animation artist Frédéric Schuld, illustrating the world of Carlotta, where faces do not exist. "haunting Carlotta's Face, neither manipulative nor expected" The Hollywood Reporter. "the fascinating German

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

Our memories make up the foundation of who we are, but they are constantly changing. Like a living organism with its own personality, memory can be loyal and reliable, sneaky and surprising, or capricious and cruel. Shot primarily in 16mm film, this creature called Memory is made from museum objects

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

Where are the limits of consciousness and are we connected in ways we never knew? ...when you look away will take you on an expedition into the unknown territory of the human consciousness. How far does consciousness reach? And are we maybe connected with each other in ways that we never knew? It is

Experiments in perception are being conducted in a wonderland of damaged images. It has to be lived once and dreamed twice commences with white noise and machine droning, gray video static and colorful distortion artifacts – in essence, with the beauty of electro-magnetic interference signals.

After so many years in a dormant state, a young man sets off on a long, perilous yet healing journey from the mountain to the sea where he conducts his most ambitious symphony piece ever undertaken. This is the journey through the young man's brain waking up and recovering the ability to detect moti

Experimental short film in which a synthetic narrator describes patterns in time, which "she" calls time crystals. It is not clear if this film comes from an unknown future, is a consciousness loop, or a dream. Over time her narrative shifts and branches as if other films are emerging from the fragm

Marina's face suddenly changed. As in a Kafka-esque nightmare, one day around her thirties her face ceased to be what it was. Who is she now? Through Marina's story, the film delves into a reflection around the meaning of the face, emblem of our identity and nerve center of how we connect with other

The Land of Whim, the main character in the film, is a planet invented by the director. Animation is the image of a land ruling by a whim. Everything that exists on the planet is unobvious, chaotic, and changes its shapes and properties. Mutual penetration and transformation of forms, change of plac

24 dancers embody the birth of neurons, activating the brain/body. This film is part of the "The Brain Piece," a live performance. For more info: http://www.jodyoberfelder.com

Sixteen-year-old Logan is an adolescent uncomfortable in his own skin. Only his science fiction dreams of a better life on Mars draw him away from his ordinary life, which is as equally difficult at home or at school, where he's only seen as an aggressive loser. One evening, he receives a visit from

Eugène is dependent on software capable of generating a continuous flow of dreams. With the assistance of a machine to which he connects himself and which draws inspiration from the consumer's environment, our protagonist progressively becomes submerged by a routine brightened only by the com

Anima is a short 7 minute arrangement of sequences examining the inherent violence present within the human condition, and the implications of it in a society rampant with an ever growing 'moving image' archive i.e the internet. The narrative attempts to trace the psychological journey of a troubled

Highly complex ideas from medicine and research are embedded into experimental storytelling. The result: a kind of artistic performative "Activity" gameplay. A non-verbal explanation attempt. Illuminated Point and Click inside a human brain. Dancing science!

'Misplaced in Space' is an animated short film that explores new ways of thinking about neurological illness. The film explores the space between neuroscience and psychology through an innovative narrative constructed around Eddy, an astrophysicist, and his experience of Alzheimer's disease. The sto

Despite the differences in individual perspectives, there is a common thread that ties us together in our perception of the visual world. This shared experience fuels the desire to bring our internal experiences to light and enable others to experience them as well. It is essential to recognize that

Meet Dr. Marian Diamond as she pulls a human brain out of a hatbox and lovingly enumerates its astonishing qualities. MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE BRAIN follows this remarkable woman over a 5-year period and introduces the viewer to both her many scientific accomplishments and the warm, funny, and thorou

As a part of the Human Connectome Project, subjects were scanned with functional MRI at the high spatial resolution, while watching a short film clip (from the BBC) showing various human actions and expressions. In the first part, the visualized activity of each brain is also rendered as sound, with

At first glance, it seems that Square lives among chaos and endless changes. At a certain point, a new element sneaks into the pattern.

www.malosutrafish.com This film answers the question: "How does it feel to have a seizure?" as well as asking the follow-up: "How do I get to be a filmmaker as a photosensitive epileptic?" This project took 18 years to make. And it was ready for the world just a few days prior the Covid-19 crisis in

When a scientist's latest attempt to scan the neural network of a brain into a computer construct fails, he must come to terms with the personal sacrifices he has made and the unusual results of his experiments. The Sierra Project is a short science fiction film written and directed by Gabriel de Ur

Another Presence recounts the unique and often curious experiences of people living with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the third most common form of dementia in the UK. A multi-sensory condition that can cause dream-like symptoms, it's a condition like no other. Told through the testimonies of th

A man consumed by guilt because he did not dare to defend his mother, he plays the role of a murderer and forces ten-year-old self to face trauma.

"THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS" explores the sensory perspective world view experienced by a 9-year-old boy named Josh. It delves into the richly layered tapestry of his daily life as his brain struggles to find peace and calm within the myriad of stimuli bombarding his senses. Josh is hyper-sensitive

Clara looses one tooth while sleeping. Swallowed by a gigantic mouth, she enters an underground world where a Surreal Sci Fi advertising invites her to "ELECTRODENT" a clinic that promises to fix teeth... but not only.

Inside the neuronal landscape is an entangled network where consciousness,memory and stimulus embolden everyone to feel unique. In reality, sentience isactually a stream of neural activity made up of billions of neurons engaging in amultitude of connections. It takes a unity of many to be an individ

"The Color of Genius" follows the story of a Florida-based digital artist, Diana De Avila, who obtained her art skills in a non-traditional way. After a traumatic brain injury and the worsening of multiple sclerosis, artistic abilities awoke within her. This rare, almost magical, phenomenon is medic

In an ultra-connected society where electromagnetic waves have invaded almost every space, three people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity talk about survival in a world that seems increasingly inaccessible to them.

If computers could let you live forever, would you? When our minds and memories can be digitized, self-help guru Deepak Chopra and leading robotics engineers envision virtual clones that don't need a body to survive.

Artist Neil Harbisson was born colour blind, but an antenna drilled into his skull enables him to hear colours and today he is the world's first officially recognised cyborg. Meet a man who may be the prototype of the human of the future. There are no others like Neil Harbisson out there – at

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.

Three years after her partner's untimely death, Dr. Lena Thierry, a neuroengineer, has been unable to move on. After years of research and development, she attempts to upload his consciousness into a computer software program. Grief is one of the hardest human emotions to cope with, and certainly a

Montreal, McGill University. Corridors lead a man towards the folds of his conscience. Is it the subject of a neurological experiment? A documentary? A fiction? What secret makes him look so desperate for an outing?

Release Date: July 1, 2018 With documentary audio material and Butoh dance, the multi-age performers are invited to take shapes, organize themselves in nightmare poses and free-form improvisations and create moving tapestries that allow our audience to create its own interpretation of the mysteries

During the night, a desktop computer, a young woman's phone and a discounted electronic tablet wake up and plan their domination of the world.