ArtScience on Screen: One Year On (April 1-30)

<p>Jiro feels sick. His father takes him to see the doctor. Her diagnosis is harmless, but it shakes the boy&#39;s identity.</p>

<p>Time-lapses of cacti and succulent over the course of a year. Environmental data drives the tone and filtration of the sounds while the rising and setting of the sun illuminates the growth of plants moving in and out phase with one another.</p>

<p>After Chernobyl tragedy, fifty thousand people were forced to leave their hometown Pripyat. Thirty years after the disaster, most of the things from Pripyat is stolen or wasted. One of the few things which has left are pianos, as they were too heavy to move away. Who would believe they are still able to play?</p>

<p>This personal short film uses a series of telephone conversations with the filmmaker&rsquo;s mother as she tries to reconcile facing cancer for a fourth time. Low-fi video filmed at night captures her mothers bond to her home, shaping the tension and isolation of living life with a terminal illness. Nocturnal lush garden imagery also evokes private reflection, and in one final moment, proposes a provocative question about time.</p>

<p>In winter, starlings join in flocks of thousands of individuals to try to confuse the hawks that attack them, doing a mesmerizing dance.&nbsp;<br /> This film it&#39;s part of the Ornitographies photographic project. This project focuses on birds in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes that generates when flying, making visible the invisible.</p>