Playlist
<p>Inspired by too many recent events that threaten our existence, Evolution wishes to illustrate a progression where life inevitably leads to progress and progress to self-destruction. In the blink of an eye, this experimental micro-film revisits the meaning of its title word when it comes to humans and our time in the universe.</p>
<p>This is the story of an extraordinary art project, Bosk, where 1000 trees moved through the city centre of Leeuwarden, Holland for 4 months, creating an urban oasis, allowing people to connect with nature like never before. Through interviews with locals, artists and scientists, we explore how collective effort can transform a city, its citizens and the environment into a more sustainable world.</p>
<p>Opening Night Film of the <a href="https://www.imaginesciencefilms.org/snw17/opening"><strong>Science New Wave Festival XVII</strong></a> / October 18 - 7pm - Museum of the Moving Image</p> <p>A meditation by the award-winning filmmaker/physicist Mark Levinson (PARTICLE FEVER) on how we make sense of the world around us. Using the works of artists instead of explanatory animations, the visually rich film explores how both scientists and artists use their understanding of nature to create new tools and representations to probe the deepest mysteries of the universe.</p>
<p>In a world where men can get pregnant, Owen wakes up with more than a hangover to fix.</p>
<p>In June 2022, an engineer was laid off after publishing conversations he had with the Artificial Intelligence prototype he was working on. Here is his story.</p>
<p>Since her accident caused by her addiction to her smartphone, Anna has lived without a cell phone. She thus has the impression of having become invisible in this society where smartphone addiction is spreading like a new variant. With her friend Isaac, affected by this variant, Anna will witness a surreal scene which will show her that the situation is much worse than she thought.</p>
<p>Through the synthetic voice of Adam Curtis, the movie tells the story of how humans may survive in a world that is becoming weirder, harder, and faster: dead celebrities are brought back from heaven, gen AI is rising, millionaires are hiding in the bottom of the earth. We feel stuck in a mediated reality, where love is constantly intercepted by emotional advertising, robots, and deepfakes.</p>
<p>2 agents at the service of Mother Nature are in charge of programming natural disasters throughout the world! Their goal? … to regulate the number of humans on earth in order to maintain balance and avoid the depletion of the planet’s resources</p>
<p>An office restroom turns into a battle of wills between an intern and an executive.</p>
<p>A bicycle deliveryman on the verge of a nervous breakdown engages in a spontaneous and thoughtless act of rebellion, locking himself in the homes of the customers he was delivering to.</p>
<p>In the documentary Maanskyn, we follow Tsakane, a 27-year-old ranger of the Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit. These women pursue their ideals in a male-dominated environment, striving for a better future for both nature and women in South Africa. The film invites us into Tsakane’s world through the letter she writes to her future self. We get to know the woman behind the uniform.</p>
<p>Nora is facing the life-altering choice of whether or not to become a mother. By means of a lifelike simulation, she meets an AI version of the child she could have. What will Nora see when she looks into the eyes of her unborn son?</p>
<p>Safe in his bunker, a man waits for the end of the world… Only problem: it looks like the apocalypse is just around the corner!</p>
<p>Three short and fascinating films about science and celestial bodies.</p>
<p>Abla is a portrait of a Palestinian refugee woman in her fifties, a compost expert and trainer in one of the world’s poorest countries in water Jordan. Despite all the challenges, she works hard to realise her dream of designing a naturally generative land.</p>
<p>An old man arrives in Togo from Paris. He decides to get into a very dilapidated cab… driven by a strange man. The man turns out to be more than just a cab driver…</p>
<p>In 1856, the American scientist Eunice Newton Foot discovered that CO2 traps heat. In 2022, in a lecture hall at the Sorbonne, a doctoral student presents this research to students who are not necessarily very concerned…</p>
<p>Parents try to prepare their 6-year-old daughter for her future.</p>
<p>Anna, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.</p>
<p>Ukraine. The time of the military Russian invasion. Two Ukrainian soldiers are doing the routine work of transporting the bodies of the dead.</p>
<p>Fabio Violeta is one of the main vegan influencers in Brazil, and falls on disgrace after the public finds out that he’s secretly eating meat.</p>
<p>In 1952, London was engulfed in the Great Smog. As a result of industrialisation, a leaden fog settled over the entire city. The archive images from this period become letters from a desolate future.</p>
<p>Justus is a big fan of modern technology. That’s why he connected a new voice-controlled home assistant. NOVA. In this short comedy, we see how Justus is locked in his own apartment by a misunderstanding from NOVA, just on the day of a friend’s wedding. He tries to escape but actually only gets himself into more trouble. Maybe this is not yet the technology of the future?</p>
<p>Two young women walk down a Parisian street. Suddenly, one of them thinks she recognises her father in the distance, who has been missing for twelve or thirteen years. She asks her friend to go approach him…</p>
<p>In the Périgord-Limousin Natural Regional Park, park staff and local residents who have decided to take part in the ‘Ma Commune la Nuit’ program are getting together to find solutions to light pollution, by choosing to limit lighting to promote biodiversity.</p>
<p>After a chance meeting with his childhood hero, a man’s euphoria over the encounter turns into an existential crisis as he continues bumping into the former major league baseball player everywhere he goes.</p>
<p>A birthday ceremony preparation gets upside down as something horrible takes place.</p>
<p>A creature in space overexploits its own planet with existential consequences: as it sinks into plastic waste, it realizes that the planet’s resources are finite.</p>
<p>A visual poem magnifying the Amazigh culture (berber natives of the middle Atlas of Morocco), an historical tale about the seismology of the city of Agadir, a story about our planet earth itself and its own life, created for the Museum of the Reconstruction of Agadir.</p>
<p>An ape is reminiscing about his life in the jungle. At the zoo, he meets a manager/father and his daughter, who is a great fan of animals. The manager can hardly get around to do his job via mobile and laptop, while the Orangutan and the girl both have a lot of fun together. A chain of occasional events changes his cage life forever.</p>
<p>A poet explains step by step how to paint a portrait of a bird. This 3-minute animated short is a tribute to the art of poetry. Inspired by the surrealist universe and the collages of the poet Jacques Prévert, Cédric Layrac immerses you in a colorful and graphic adaptation of this classic work of French poetry.</p>
<p>A heartfelt story of the beloved Argentinian merry-go-round operators who have dedicated their lives to providing fun and happiness to children and their neighbourhoods. This is a story of perseverance and community above the individual.</p>
<p>The sun rises happily over the horizon, and it is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly, and pollute without shame. Their ideas and actions, usually very disrespectful to the planet, are putting the whole environment in jeopardy. What they do not realise, is that whatever they do, it will affect them sooner or later. However, the cosmos is not that patient…</p>
<p>Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet.</p>
<p>Muscle Man, the world’s cleanest superhero, embarks on a thrilling battle against a giant robot determined to reduce the city to rubble, but his obsession with order could lead him to his downfall.</p>
<p>A robin wants to charm a female with his song, but the dull of the surrounding machinery prevents him from making himself heard. He comes out of his shell, and in his struggle finds the solution.</p>
<p>Originally from Cameroon, Awa works as a snow groomer driver in La Thuile, the last Italian town before France. At the end of her shift, she comes across a young migrant desperately trying to cross the border. Helping him to cross the mountain may be the only way for her to silence a dull, constant guilt.</p>