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Microscopy, timelapse, and observation beautifully captures a lab's full study of squid embryonic development. Original score gives a momentum and underscores the aesthetic beauty of these images and data. Squid Development with music composed and performed by Kristina Dutton and Nathan Clevenger.

A room filled with Brain Microscope Slides at the Center for Neural Science at New York University

Nanodoctor - iterations 1 to 3' is an imaginary promotional film from the near future explaining the migration of information inside living organisms through molecules, and how the real time monitoring of those molecules will allow the diagnosis and rapid resolution of a crisis inside the human body

The unnamed protagonist dies in a traffic accident, but as he finds himself still conscious, he realizes that there is still experience after death. After spending some time in a dark space with some sparse light animations, he realizes he can craft a new world out of his own imagination. As he star

Sleep. Do we get enough? The latest developments in circadian biology research are uncovering the detrimental effects that a lack of sleep can have to our well-being. Sleepless is the result of a two year conversation between artist Ellie Land and scientist Professor Peter Oliver about the links now

Fig is different from other fruit flies, though he won't know until metamorphosis. This is his story.

Diffusion MRI can provide information on the organization of neuronal tissue in vivo . Based on these images, fiber tract pathways can be reconstructed that represent the axonal wiring of the brain. Anatomical knowledge lets us select specific fiber bundles connecting two brain regions, in this case

Matters of the Heart , a series of six, silent, black-and-white films of operations were shot with a 16mm Bolex film camera in the operating room: Heart, Blood Flow, Stomach, Eye/Hand, Vertebra, Brain . Two choreographies overlap: that of the surgeons and that of the intuitive-conceptual camera edit

13.5 days after fertilization of the egg, the mouse embryo is about 1cm head to tail, and about ⅔ done with gestation. At this point the motor nerves (green), which will connect the brain (the spinal cord) to every muscle, are send their axons out to find the developing muscles. The sensory nerves (

e12.5 mouse embryo nervous system. 12.5 days after fertilization of the fertilization, the mouse embryo is about 1cm head to tail and about ⅔ through gestation. At this point the motor nerves (yellow), which will connect the brain (the spinal cord) to every muscle, are send their axons out to find t

Stuck in the Past explains the nature of the photon and how it influences the life. We travel through New York from past, present, and future accompanied by your guide and astrophysicist student Moiya McTier Made as part of the Imagine Science Symbiosis Film Competition 2016

Developing embryos of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. For Froglapse2F, the embryos start out at a variety of stages and the movie covers approximately 36 hrs of development. For Froglapse3, all the embryos start out at the two-cell stage and the movie covers approximately 48 hrs at which ti

Learn more about epigenetics from the Life Lived technologies where our mission is to make you better tomorrow than you are today.

Wing development of a Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly.

I don't know if you've ever heard a goat eating carrots? It's almost too much, it's so lovely' An Eyeful of Sound conjures up the fascinating visually complex internal world of audio-visual syn-aesthesia, where senses make unique connections the rest of us don't experience. In this Wellcome Trust fu

The human lifespan is increasing by two hours every day. But how much life is enough--100 or 1000 years? Part science, part philosophy, Until is a journey in which leading UK age researchers, children, the elderly and a man seeking immortality, explore some of life's most profound questions.

Illuminated and filmed from above, the software detects the position of the mouse head in real-time (indicated in green) and uses this to create a perspective correct virtual reality. The detected mouse contour and centre are shown in magenta. The Lab of Andrew Straw studies neural circuits and beha

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

During the Real-time monitoring, we can observe the typical morphological cellular changes as blebbing, cell shrinkage and chromatin condensation. Sample: Apoptosis of T685A human melanoma cancer cell. Protocol: The cells were grown to 60% confluency in complete RPMI medium in ibidi 35mm glass botto

Brief reflections with AI on the nature of memory. Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New Wave.

Developing embryos of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. For Froglapse2F, the embryos start out at a variety of stages and the movie covers approximately 36 hrs of development. For Froglapse3, all the embryos start out at the two-cell stage and the movie covers approximately 48 hrs at which ti

In 2090 CE, the English-speaking countries united to create a world government. It destroyed all libraries containing non-English languages on Earth. There is one multi-language-containing library left, in space. It is the NASA Golden Record. Weiyang, a girl accused of speaking Chinese, is sent to d

Experimental Research Film (in development) In collaboration with Brivanlou Laboratory of Molecular Vertebrate Embryology, The Rockefeller University.

Sarah-Rose Meredith is a Brooklyn-based writer/director who recently received her M.F.A from the Graduate Film Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to NYU, Sarah-Rose earned bachelors' degrees in physics and film at UC Santa Cruz, and worked in first-amendment and environmental law. She

Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions is an animated surrealist 4K film. The film depicts temporal, immaterial sensations and perceptions as spatially material extensions of the body. This vision of invisible dimensions within a human experience is grounded in biological and biographical forms. Thi

This short was the runner up at the Imagine Science Film Festival's 48hr competition. A filmmaker was paired with a scientist to create a short based on the scientist's research. I had the awesome privilege of working with Adrian Price-Whelan, an astrophysicist at Columbia University. The film is ba

A meditation on the concepts of belonging and home. An attempt to process the war of a nation and the war within oneself.

Bird Watch is a mockumentary mini-series that documents Kuwait and the mean-region from the perspective of peripheral and/or minorities. The second episode, titled "Health", is about a child's point of view of a healthful lifestyle.

A film about the phenomena of particle wave duality and how that translate into dance/ballet.

Made as part of the animate! scheme for Channel 4 television and Arts Council England, 2004. This was a film based on my experience of multiple births (as mother and artist), and also includes interviews with my sons (then aged 2) and Jane Denton from Queen Charlotte Hospital in London (head of the

My Lost Cousin is a docu-fiction film about my elder female cousin who left the family for more than ten years and never returned. Through multiple interviews with her aunt and re-enactments of past events, the film brings audiences back to my cousin's traumatic memories, in which she transforms fro

Developing embryos of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. For Froglapse2F, the embryos start out at a variety of stages and the movie covers approximately 36 hrs of development. For Froglapse3, all the embryos start out at the two-cell stage and the movie covers approximately 48 hrs at which ti

Agronomists as revolutionaries who sought political change through scientific work An archival, animated history of three scientists who became sparks to political and social revolution from within and beyond the lab. Amílcar Cabral (Guinea-Bissau, Africa), Nikolai Vavilov (Soviet Union), and

A living organism to host, extend, connect, and express our senses. The Octopus Network is our attempt to capture the boundless motion of human senses, thoughts, and emotions that are constantly flowing around us - transported over invisible waves that dance to the vibrational rhythm of electromagne

What happens when you smell something? This whimsical look at olfaction follows the journey of a smell through the nose. A film by Anna Lindemann and Albana Kodra as part of the Imagine Science Symbiosis Competition Animation by Anna Lindemann. Illustration by Ziael Ponte. Microscopy by Albana Kodra

Cholinergic system of the adult mouse brain, involved in motor control and arousal/wakefulness. Credit: Nicolas Renier, The Rockefeller University

Flat Out Amazing – We thought it was impossible, it wasn't. The story of how they got there is worth knowing. (Imagination at the Edge)

'Films to Break Projectors' glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating the material reveals traces of ambiguous narratives that emerge from the complex loops.

Shakhbout shares with us the story of the first speaking Arabian Oryx "Mozaik" that changed the course of his life and for that matter the future of humankind.

Kimura discovered that the surgical removal of forewing discs in butterfly larvae resulted in a pupae not only missing the forewing, but also outer casing that would normally cover the wing region. This meant that the hindwing was left clearly visible, allowing for easy imaging of wing development i

Deforest is an art/science project that combines environmental critique with material enquiry. In this project, sulphuric acid – a highly corrosive acid that burns to the touch – is used to dissolve photographs of old growth rainforest from subtropical Queensland. Deforestation is one of

How do we breathe? How do we smell? Using supercomputer simulations, scientists can recreate a rapid and short inhalation, a 'sniff'. Using pure data visualizations, this short documentary allows us to see the stunning beauty of this process. Credits: Directors: Guillermo Marin & Fernando Cucchietti

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

Philosophers have debated for years whether we deliberately make each of the many decisions we make every day, or if our brain does it for us, on autopilot. My Mind's Eye: A Series of Video Interviews on Mind and Brain. Episode 2 - How Free Is Your Will? An interview with Michael Gazzaniga Professor

Cesar Maxit talks about his inspiration behind his artwork, notably the monarch butterfly poster entitled MIGRANT. He tells us how his art makes its way through the streets and how the monarch became a symbol to fight for undocumented workers. As animals, humans have the right migrate ... in all fou

The film is voiced by an anonymous group of 'hybrid' machines, from some point in the near future, who look at humans and animals as inefficient machines and consider ways of editing and improving their code. Whilst the work appears to be a piece of science fiction all of the technologies and ideas

A dynamic explanation about quantum teleportation where Paris is used as backdrop. How to explain Quantum Physics to a friend. A new environment, a new scenario, a new metaphor ... or perhaps just new friends. A movie from Pierre-Arnaud Lime, Pierre Jouve & Adrian Marza. Music: Barbie Camion-Feeling

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

Set in the Mediterranean, J.I. posits a world destabilized by the advent of biological immortality, a gift of life from a mysterious new species. Part solutionist satire, part transhuman tragedy, it features fictionalized versions of Buckminster Fuller, Ray Kurzweil and Rachel Carson. The start poin

Mouse Embryo, 14 days old, showing the sensory nerves (in red) and the motor nerves (in white). Credit: Nicolas Renier, The Rockefeller University

How different is one species from the next? How can we distinguish body from mind? In Lilian Mehrel's short film, air is expressed as a verb – to breathe / to air out. Mehrel drew her inspiration from molecular biology, water creatures, the connection between living things, and the importance

The following historical observation is the starting point for this film: The estimates of the speed of light through history decrease with time. The images in the film evoke experiments behind the estimates on the speed of light.

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) pupal development.

A cloud has a phenomenological discussion with itself. Where a cloud ends and "the cloud" begins is a place not for the faint hearted. A journey into the science and philosophy of the nature of our relationship to clouds today. Created for the Symbiosis competition at the 10th Annual Imagine Science

Temptation transports Chalotte in the the land of boredom (or is this in fact depression?). She decides to spend her afternoon contemplating the lives of others and her own existence. With the words of "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire

How far would you go to get what you want? In the near future, Jill is a rare survivor in a world nature tore apart, a woman whose powerful maternal urges are thwarted by a scarcity of men.

Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form,

In a tale about fetal microchimerism, a woman experiences the persistent loss of her child who died in utero many years earlier. Her sadness is eased by the knowledge of their molecular bond as the child's fetal cells were absorbed by her body and a microchimera was created. During a brief interlude

Is it a bird, is it a plane? Shot in the desert of Dubai, Shaheen examines the relationship between bird and human and how humans have used technology to try to recreate wild hunting. Shaheen follows the morning routine of the falcons of the Royal Shaheen group. The falconers Peter and Sarab attempt

The video is taken with a high-speed camera shows a filter-less separation of C. elegans worm eggs from L4 stage using high inertial forces only. As you can see, the eggs are sorted out from the upper outlet while the L4 worms are sorted out from the lower outlet. During this sorting process in a sp

Soil science, soil fiction is an experimental documentary that explores the relationship between science and fiction within three soil-centered practices: permaculture gardening, metal detecting, and dredging. Looking at the different narratives and relationships that develop within them, the film q

'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

"We are the body. We are under attack." And so the body's immune system is triggered into action. A raging battle has begun between pro and anti-inflammatory forces in the plasmic swirling interior of a blister. Each sequence in Battle of Blister has been generated by human performers in an interact

Human embryonic stem cells, differentiated to central nervous system tissue equivalent to the neocortical neuroepithelial cells are used to study human development and disease. Cells organize into characteristic flowerlike rosette structures which stain for nuclear markers of neural cell lineage and

Your mode of existence is not superior. It is only another state of being.

The film tells the story of an aspirational consumer dystopia, in which expensive surgical alterations might allow individuals to influence the ways in which strangers infer personality traits from their faces. Told in the form of an 80s style infomercial, the narrator lists a series of experim

Managing its cancerous cells, a tiny organism offers its own solution to a big question, how to find balance in an destabilised natural environment. This animated film presents a mythical creature, Chemozoa, inspired by research at the Arizona Cancer and Evolution Center at the Biodesign Institute (

An exploration of what it means to see in color. A student from New York University Abu Dhabi leans on the great painters of our time (Rene Magritte, Paul Cezanne) to understand how color is textured on flat surfaces to create dimensionality. And of course, Magritte's Son of a Man and the apple that

Orfeo Nel Canale Alimentare (Orpheus in the Alimentary Canal) is an animated opera about the digestive tract. In the film, Orpheus attempts to rescue Eurydice from a bout of indigestion by crossing the river of her inner-under world. But in the alimentary canal there are no heroes, only the multitud

The life of Andrea "La tana" Ruscitti. Inhabitant of the Paulino island of Berisso. The story of a family, the love for the land and the legacy that Andrea defends as a true river lioness.

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 biology, an organism is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life. It is a synonym for life form. A life form travels across the universe and lands on this planet. Who it is, what it looks like, remains unclear. It could be many, it could be everywhere. Children, a meteorite, alg

Adrenergic and dopaminergic systems of the adult mouse brain. Credit: Nicolas Renier, The Rockefeller University

Wearing well is a collaboration between Enrico Milanese, Researcher in Computational Solid Mechanics and Markos Kay, Computational Artist. The film visually reimagines Milanese's research whereby the microscopic effects of contact and wear between materials are studied through the use of high-perfor

Every life form originated from the same cells billions of years ago. First there was one cell that formed colonies, which became group of colonies that evolved into all kinds of species like trees, insects, giraffes and humans. All is connected, moves together and reacts to each other. There is no

Pupal development of a Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia). The movie was taken by Aaron Pomerantz and Damien Gailly. Pupae of "blue" Buckeye provided by Rachel Thayer. During the larval stage, one of the forewing disks was surgically removed using a procedure developed by Julian Kimura and Ryan Null

Always wanted an extra fluffy rabbit, a legless cat, or a dog on two legs? Dr Schönbacher's new app makes it easy for you to design and order your own! The Breeder tells the story of a scientist who uses genetic modification to design custom-made pets. These hyper-cute creatures melt hearts wor

The chemical house: A watchful eye of the protection of our planet focussing on the study of the rivers. A movie from Anne-Laure Languille (Filmaker) & Eric Gayer (Scientist). Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Equipe Geochmie des Enveloppes Externe, Reseau des Bassins Vernats, IRSTEA Film prod

Time lapse spanning ~10min, played at ~46x speed, showing preparation of Drosophila brain explants for two-photon calcium imaging by Matthieu Cavey, postdoctoral researcher in the Blau lab at NYU. The two-photon system is on the left of the room in a cage (to minimize background light detection), th

A portrait film about the pollution in Brooklyn NY and beyond. Extromophiles are organisms that exist when nothing else can survive.

Shapeless, infinite and abstract. Limitless and intangible. It's everywhere. It's The Cloud. Anne Milne is a BAFTA award-winning Scottish filmmaker. Her film María's Way was nominated for the European Film Award 2010, and won several awards while playing at numerous international film festiva

Mesmerized by the diversity of shapes and patterns in nature, a scientist tries to uncover the secrets behind them. Arnaud Martin talks about his work with butterflies, and its significance in deconstructing evolutionary processes. Cinematography by Roland Folkmayer and Orsolya Szantho Edited by Ors

Childhood trauma and stress can lead to the shortening of the chromosome which eventually shortens your life span.

If the vegetables could helps us to understand how we can cure brain cancer? A inspiring and aesthetic film, which brings hope, showing how light can be used as a efficient treatment. With Clément Dupont A movie from Clément Dupont (Scientist) & Salvo Manzone (Filmaker) Music: Cl&eacut

Mike fails a CAPTCHA and now must prove that he is human. Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New Wave.

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

Adrenergic and Dopaminergic systems of the mouse embryo and adult mouse brain. Credit: Nicolas Renier, The Rockefeller University

In just 4 minutes a group of scientists (active in the fields of protein motion and visual representation of cell biology) will lead you on a journey to discover an entire new world: a human cell.

Seeing the full picture is often our biggest challenge. By focusing on small building blocks, we can transform society.

Amber is renowned for its beautiful preservation and arguably the most valuable scientific collection lives in the American Natural History Museum. Dr David Grimaldi and Paul Nascimbene share their passion for amber in this film, which looks at the millions of years old specimens inside as well as t

Listen to the hippocampal neurons of rat as it dreams and awakes from its deepest thoughts. As it comes out of its dream state, the rats 'place cells' are active in distinct locations (place fields) while a rat runs along a track. These place cells were first discovered in the brain, and specificall

Butterfly Buckeye timelapse and zooms into the wing to show remarkable details

"Light Dreams In and Out" deals with our desires and fears to live our lives fully. Two mythological characters, half wolf and half human, take a journey that serves to resolve their isolation and alienation by confronting their fears and embracing their destinies. In their dreams, they realize that

A scientist working on memory in the amygdala of the brain sees a vision of a lost love through the microscope. He decides to go visit her and have a last moment of intimacy. A music video for Mind Over Matter song, part of the new album Theory of my Mind of the American rock band from New York The

A dish of beating heart cells differentiated from embryonic stem cells. As long as you give it food (fresh culturing media), it will generate a self-paced contraction in a group. Captured by the first prototype of iDu LabCam back in 2011 with a phase-contrast microscope. Credit: Du Cheng, Paula Scha

Pupal development of a Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia). The movie was taken by Aaron Pomerantz and Damien Gailly. Pupae of "blue" Buckeye provided by Rachel Thayer. During the larval stage, one of the forewing disks was surgically removed using a procedure developed by Julian Kimura and Ryan Null

Developing butterfly wings. Shown are the developing pupal wings of the Buckeye (Junonia coenia). The wing primordia were dissected from the pupae (chrysalis) of these species. At the time of dissection the wings had little or no color to them. They were placed in a special media that allows the win

A blissed-out squirrel rolls through a meadow of objects.

A poetic soaring within a laboratory of genetics . With Marie Coutelier & Nicolas Maille A movie from Marie Coutelier (Scientist) & Alexandre Labarussiat (Filmaker) With the collaboration of Michel Dequet & Nicolas Maille The team thanks l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) &

The prospect of creating and using human–animal chimeras and hybrids ... moral disorientation back to an irreducible ethical dilemma:

Kimura discovered that the surgical removal of forewing discs in butterfly larvae resulted in a pupae not only missing the forewing, but also outer casing that would normally cover the wing region. This meant that the hindwing was left clearly visible, allowing for easy imaging of wing development i

Steve believes that everything is Science, and that lines drawn between disciplines are man-made. He studied biology and psychology at the University of Virginia before pursuing graduate studies in photojournalism at the University of the Arts London. Steve's film "Pyongyang Style" was broadcast aro

An immigrant in New York tries to become a Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) bird, so that she can travel back to the Caribbean for her child's birthday party.

Zooming in to 100x on a rosette, apical pole centrosomes, base of cilia, are marked by pericentrin (yellow), NF-H an intermediate protein associated with differentiating neurons (yellow) show cellular heterogeneity and early differentiating neurons, acetylated tubulin (purple), PAX6 (faint aqua), AR

We Rule is from "The Leafcutters" series – a project that includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture. It was filmed at Liquid Jungle Lab, a biological research station on Isla Canales de Tierra off the Pacific coast of Panama. The soundtrack was created from wildlife recorded on locati

For as long as humans lived around malus species, they've been eating apples. The apple tree has been domesticated, diversified - it has evolved in new ways via natural and artificial selection. But what is the perfect apple? Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification.

A curious girl documents the lives of a marginalized group of gazelles on the Saadiyaat Island Golf Club in Abu Dhabi, a city who names translates into "rich in gazelles" in Arabic.

Two bears are hungry in NYC. Hungry for salmon. Follow Big Bear and Little Bear's respective expeditions through the city in search of a scrumptious meal. From lavish fine dining to lively food carts – through the simple act of eating – the relationship between bears and salmon enables t

What lengths would you be willing to go, to medically change your personality?

Turn It Upside Down – Sometimes our most deeply held beliefs are exactly what's in the way (Imagination v. the establishment).

Lecturing to a room full of people, a young man uses the latest technical gadgetry to show off a violent and shockingly funny experiment with his cute little pet mouse Carlito.

"Not the ghost in the machine, but the body in the medium is the central dilemma of modern communications…" – John Durham Peters The World : In a possible near future, where quantifying of the self is taken to its logical extreme, every person has their own "supermetric". This is an inf

The more you talk about Information flow, the more it feels spiritual. A philosophical and mathematical definition of inforrmation flow.

Alya Red is a project of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for simulating a human heart. In this video we explain the scientific background of the project, and show scientific visualizations of simulations using the computational electromechanical model applied to a rabbit heart. Winner of the 201

Every living thing is made up of cells. These cells contain stories. The earliest life forms on earth were made up of only one cell, while we are made up of many many cells living together. The evolutionary history of how we came to be, from our single cellular ancestors, is one of cooperation betwe

Living in the mud at the bottom of the water garden pond at @brooklynbotanic are many many navicular diatoms. When you look at the pond you can tell they're there because they produce tiny air bubbles that sit on the surface of the mud. Diatoms are photosynthetic. Photosynthesis produces oxygen. Oxy

When a wide-eyed 10-year-old girl visits her fathers insect laboratory, she receives an unorthodox education in genetics.

A young Mexican biologist living in New York discusses the reasons for her transformation into a Monarch butterfly.

Developing butterfly wings. Shown are the developing pupal wings of the Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui). The wing primordia were dissected from the pupae (chrysalis) of these species. At the time of dissection the wings had little or no color to them. They were placed in a special media that allows th

Human existence leaves behind traces of destruction which tell an absurdly appealing story of the past, reconstructing tales of past existence while simultaneously showing its detrimental effects on the future. The pseudo-documentary PLASTIK aims for a depersonalized self-reflection on human interac

Locked in perpetual twilight - prime mosquito blood-feeding time - AfterGlow presents a terrain progressively illuminated by glowing trails, evocative of mosquito flight paths. These spiralling forms represent packets of blood, carried by mosquitos infected with Plasmodium knowlesi, a malaria parasi

Could biological transmissions over vast astronomical distances be the preferred mode of communication between advanced cultures in space? A short experimental documentary regarding the biodynamic interstellar communication experiments of electronics engineer L. George Lawrence.

Part science and part fiction, Other Voices is an experimental documentary about the enigmatic life of plants and the people who love them. We meet Mileece, a sound artist who claims to have given her plants a "voice" through a process of amplifying the electrical current produced in plant leaves an

A lonely middle-aged man reflects on the transience of his biological existence. Fearing to leave no traces and no descendants behind in the world, he puts his last savings and hope in a procedure offered by a mysterious biotech company.

Are the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence worthy of our fear or celebration as we stride into a more technologically reliant future? Human Applications is an art film reflecting on the algorithmic patterns and architectures behind biological and artificial intelligence. MareNostrum 4, th

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.

A world in which memory is artificial

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

Reflection on times when people have seen an animal in emotional suffering. Are they able to draw out characteristics of depression, how do they relate to them? There is more than only human behavior in animals, but they are not sure of what they see.

Fathom, a unit to measure depth. A medical-science trajectory toward understanding the deep complexity of distorted minds and the perception of the ones who suffer it. ISFF13 Symbiosis 2020 Winner

A take on our future told through the voice of hybrid creatures.

A short documentary following the preparation and performance of the musical composition 'Activating Memory' by the Paramusical Ensemble, comprising of four severely motor-impaired patients and a string quartet at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London. The parts for each instrument are gen

The first dive-in of a Monarch butterfly wing revealing the intricate scale structure, the pigmented scales, (fuzzy) borders. The borders of the wing evoke the borders between countries, notably between Canada, US and Mexico. The soundscape was created by director Alexis Gambis in collaboration with

Inspired by Karel Doing's phytographies I foraged plants, placed them on a 16mm black and white filmstrip, and exposed them to sunlight. The cameraless film Plant Lights, composed in a little village in Lower Austria, Friedenstein, in August 2022, is an attempt to develop a photochemical practice th

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

It might not even exist at all. An exhaustive meta-analytic review documenting a mysterious "women's issue," otherwise known as endometriosis.1 1term used to describe a clinical etiology that thus far has only been identified in primates with a female reproductive system, an anatomical structure of

Light. Sound. Matter. Intricate landscapes emerge from multitudinous overlapping waves of film and quantum physics. Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New Wave.

A string of amino acids attract and unite in the process of protein folding.

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