Science New Wave Festival X

<p>Mosaic explores&nbsp;evolution in its natural and artificial forms &mdash; the deliberate and random modifications of an organism.&nbsp;As a mixed genre, science-driven anthology film, Mosaic&nbsp;is the first of its kind featuring&nbsp;ten visionary, international filmmakers and stories from the most influential scientists of our time.</p> <p style="text-align:center">________________</p> <p><strong>The Mask Task </strong>- Josephine Decker</p> <p>With documentary audio material and&nbsp;Butoh dance,&nbsp;the multi-age performers are invited to&nbsp;take shapes, organize themselves in nightmare poses and free-form improvisations and&nbsp;create moving tapestries that allow our audience to create its own interpretation of the&nbsp;mysteries of human emotion, stress and fear.</p> <p><strong>Orfeo Nel Canale Alimentare</strong>&nbsp; -&nbsp;Rachel Mayeri</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>In this animated opera, 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 multitudes.</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Insān</strong> - Alexis Gambis</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>A young man with a stutter shares with us the story of the first speaking Arabian Oryx &quot;Mozaik&quot; that changed the course of his life and for that matter the future of humankind.</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Random Legal Move -&nbsp;</strong>Noah Hutton</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>For years Clarice has kept her father&rsquo;s work hidden, as she works a menial job at the local rec centre. But after a renowned neuroscientist makes her a tempting offer, Clarice must make a decision whether to guard his secret or give the last piece of her father&rsquo;s genius away.</em></p> <p><strong>Lichen</strong>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Sally Warring</p> <p><em>The journey of the Fungus on its hunt for the perfect Algal mate punctuated by&nbsp;events that occur in the Lichen lifecycle.</em></p> <p><strong>The Fortress</strong>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Miryam Charles</p> <p><em>Four days after being declared dead, a young girl miraculously finds a way to communicate with her mother leading her to find a way to save her. With the help of a mad scientist, she and her husband will embark a journey to Ha&iuml;ti.</em></p> <p><strong>Caroni -&nbsp;</strong>Ian Harnarine</p> <p><em>An immigrant in New York tries to become a Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus rubber)&nbsp;bird so that she can travel back to the Caribbean for her child&rsquo;s birthday party.</em></p> <p><strong>Mother, a fairy tale</strong>&nbsp;- Barry J Gibb</p> <p><em>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. &nbsp;</em></p> <p><strong>Realm of An Inner Child</strong>&nbsp; -&nbsp;Jeannette Louie</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>In a tale about fetal microchimerism, a woman experiences the persistent loss of her child who died in utero many years earlier. &nbsp;Her sadness is eased by the knowledge of their molecular bond as the child&#39;s fetal cells were absorbed by her body and a microchimera was created. &nbsp;During a brief interlude, they share a discourse that reveals their enduring physiological attachment.</em></p> <p><strong>The Breeder</strong>&nbsp;- Demelza Kooij</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Always wanted an extra fluffy rabbit, a dog on two legs, or a legless cat? Dr Sch&ouml;nbacher&#39;s new app makes it easy for you to design and order your own!</em><img alt="" src="https://labocine.com/stills/spotlights/theBreeder_720p.jpg" /></p> <p><em>Animation by Maya Edelman</em></p> <p><em>Assistant Editor: Gergo Varga</em></p> <p><em>Labocine Original&nbsp;</em></p> <p><em>Co-produced by Imaginal Disc&nbsp;</em></p>

<p><span style="color:#ff0000"><strong>Release Date: July 1, 2018</strong></span></p> <p>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 of human emotion, stress and fear.</p> <p dir="ltr">&quot;The Mask Task&quot; released on July 1, 2018 is part of a ten-chapter science anthology series &quot;Mosaic&quot;. This ten-chapter film is about identity in its natural and artificial forms. The film examines, through a hybrid creature&nbsp;Mosaic, how&nbsp;interactions with other beings shape our existence. The series is composed of ten chapters directed by ten emerging filmmakers and features stories from the most influential scientists of our time. Release on July 1st. Every week, a new chapter!</p> <p dir="ltr">Directed by Josephine Decker</p> <p dir="ltr">Produced by Olivia Lloyd</p> <p dir="ltr">Cinematography by Devon Catucci</p> <p dir="ltr">Edited by Joe Nankin</p> <p dir="ltr">Butoh Choreography by Mariko Endo and Stacy Smith</p> <p dir="ltr">Children&rsquo;s Choreography by Mariko Endo</p> <p dir="ltr">Production Manager: Ted Day</p> <p dir="ltr">Production Designer / Costume Designer: Chantelle Adams</p> <p dir="ltr">Assistant Camera: William Castellucci</p> <p dir="ltr">Sound Mixer: Viktor Weiszhaupt</p> <p dir="ltr">Gaffer: Sean Gradwell</p> <p dir="ltr">Light Board Operator: Jude Feingold</p> <p dir="ltr">Production Assistant: Sydney Stewart</p> <p dir="ltr">Director&rsquo;s Assistant: Justin Sansone</p> <p dir="ltr">Special Thanks</p> <p dir="ltr">Mariko Endo</p> <p dir="ltr">John Desotelle Studio</p> <p dir="ltr">Joseph Garreffa &nbsp;(Community School Director)</p> <p dir="ltr">Educational Alliance</p> <p dir="ltr">Boys &amp; Girls Club</p> <p dir="ltr">After 3 Arts Program of P.S.142</p> <p>LABOCINE ORIGINAL</p>

<p>Orfeo&nbsp;Nel Canale Alimentare&nbsp;(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 multitudes.</p> <p>The river which runs through us, the alimentary canal, is suggestive as a boundary object between the self and other, the internal and the external, the human and the nonhuman environment. The film explores the dissolution of individuality through the realization that our bodies are teeming with nonhuman life. Musically and narratively, in this ecological opera, individual heroes are superseded by the chorus, who represent a symbiotic view of life.</p> <p>In Italian with English subtitles.</p>

<p>Shakhbout&nbsp;shares with us the story of the first speaking&nbsp;Arabian Oryx &quot;Mozaik&quot;&nbsp;that changed the course of his life and for that matter the future of humankind.</p>

<p>For years Clarice has kept her father&#39;s work hidden, as she works a menial job at the local rec center. But after a renowned neuroscientist makes her a tempting offer, Clarice must make a decision whether to guard his secret or give the last piece of her father&#39;s genius away.</p>

<p>The journey of the Fungus on its hunt for the perfect Algal mate punctuated by events that occur in the Lichen lifecycle.</p>

<p>Four days after being declared dead, a young girl miraculously find a way to communicate with her mother leading her to find a way save her. With the help of a mad scientist, she and her husband will embark a journey to Ha&iuml;ti.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>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&#39;s birthday party.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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&#39;s fetal cells were absorbed by her body and a microchimera was created. During a brief interlude, they share a discourse that reveals their enduring physiological attachment.</p> <p><strong>Release Date: July 8. 2018</strong></p>

<p>Always wanted an extra fluffy rabbit, a legless cat, or a dog on two legs?<br /> Dr Sch&ouml;nbacher&rsquo;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 worldwide, but there is a dark side to their irresistible begging eyes&hellip;</p> <p>Suggested Article:<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/15/extreme-breeding-of-cute-english-bulldogs-risks-uk-ban-say-vets">&nbsp;Extreme breeding of &lsquo;cute&rsquo; English bulldogs risks UK ban, say vets</a> (The Guardian, Ian Sample, 06/15/22)</p>

<p>Follow the eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi on his quest to record pure continuous 24-hour 3D soundscapes in the area with the world&rsquo;s highest biodiversity in Ecuador&rsquo;s remote primary forests. A unique listening experience of fragments of the disappearing sonic heritage of millions of years of evolution.</p> <p>Concept and writer | David Monacchi<br /> Director | Nika &Scaron;aravanja &amp; Alessandro d&rsquo;Emilia<br /> Cinematographer | Alessandro d&rsquo;Emilia<br /> Editor | Otis Buri<br /> 3D Soundscapes and spectrograms | David Monacchi<br /> Sound design | David Monacchi &amp; Anthony Di Furia<br /> Music | Corrado Fantoni &amp; David Monacchi<br /> Color grading | Alessandro d&rsquo;Emilia<br /> Graphics | Egle Kirdulyte<br /> Soundtrack produced by | Fragments of Extinction</p> <p>Green Film Festival &ndash; Seoul</p> <p>Cinemambiente &ndash; Torino&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AWARD</p> <p>Durban International Film Festival &ndash; Durban&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AWARD</p> <p>Iran International Film Festival &ndash; Teheran</p> <p>DokuFest &ndash; Prizren</p> <p>Cervino Cinemountain &ndash; Aosta</p> <p>Global Eco Film Festival &ndash; Zurich</p> <p>Innsbruck Nature Film Festival &ndash; Innsbruck&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;AWARD</p> <p>Bifed &ndash; Istanbul&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AWARD</p> <p>Inconvenient Films &ndash; Vilnius</p> <p>Imagine Science Film Festival &ndash; New York&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (North America premiere)</p> <p>Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival &ndash; Toronto</p> <p>CineEco &ndash; Serra da Estrela&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AWARD</p> <p>Jihlava IFF &ndash; Prague</p> <p>Cinema Planeta &ndash; Mexico</p> <p>Mountain International Film Festival &ndash; Graz</p> <p>Signes de Nuit &ndash; Paris&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AWARD</p> <p>InScience Dutch International Film Festival &ndash; Nijmegen</p> <p>Fricine Socioenvironmental Film Festival &ndash; Rio De Janeiro</p> <p>International Human Rights Film Festival &ndash; Nurnberg</p> <p>Green Film Network Award (Dusk Chorus II bally&nbsp;best film globally in&nbsp;2017)</p>

<p>The Shark in the Park visualizes the growth and development process of a special strawberry species called &ldquo;Parco Pistris&rdquo; which has been discovered by a Korean scientifical research group KSPRI in 2016. KSPRI commissioned animation-director-collective Polynoid to take their research and create a visualisation that would feature all of the actually pretty stunning facts about the plant and still be entertaining in order to bring the piece not only to a biology focused but wider and younger audience.</p> <p>If you&rsquo;re looking for further info, here are all the details:&nbsp;<a href="http://strangeplants.org/parco-pistris" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">strangeplants.org/parco-pistris</a></p> <p>Client - KSPRI (Korean Strange Plant Research Institute)<br /> Director &ndash; Polynoid<br /> Production Company &amp; Animation Studio &ndash; Woodblock<br /> Producer &ndash; Selina Schmitt<br /> Artists &ndash; Fabian Pross, Tom Weber, Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay, Sarah Eim, Michael Heberlein, Mars Dolschon, Markus Eschrich, Ivan Vasiljevic, Marco Kowalik, Roman Hinkel, Paul Schicketanz, Thorsten L&ouml;ffler, Moritz Gl&auml;sle, Roman K&auml;lin, Pascal Fl&ouml;rks, Felix Deimann, Tim Jockel<br /> Sounddesign &ndash; Dolphin Smiles<br /> Music &ndash; Hot Sugar &quot;There&#39;s A Man Waiting At The Bottom Of The Stairs&quot;</p>

<p>Where Shapes Comes From is a moving image work which considers how science translates nature, on an atomic scale.</p> <p>Filmed in the mineral sciences laboratory at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, a scientist goes about his daily work in rock and mineral preparatory labs; cutting up large meteorites and preparing mineral samples for scientific study. Accompanying this, mineralogist Jeff Post describes the coming together of atoms to form matter. He details formations of organised structures and patterns as if they are happening in real-time, in front of our eyes, transcending time and space.</p> <p>Raw seismic data, collected from the land forming Mariana deep sea trench, has been converted directly into sound and controls computer generated animations, which are composited into the labs. They depict interpretations of visual scientific forms associated with atomic structures, and the technologies which capture them. Sitting alongside these animated formations are hand-made assemblages of discarded materials and other curiosities, which now bear human signatures. They unite in bringing a sense of playfulness and personal touch to the ordinarily rigorous framework of science. By combining these scientific processes, languages and products associated with matter formation in the context of the everyday, they become fantastical and strange encouraging us to consider how science translates nature and question our experiences of the physical world.</p> <p>Filmed at the Mineral Sciences Laboratory, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. during its 100th year.<br /> Audio made from Mariana Trench seismic data courtesy of the IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) Network.</p>

<p>The Tesla World Light is an 8-minute 2017 black and white avant-garde film by Montreal director Matthew Rankin imagining the latter days of inventor Nikola Tesla in 1905 in New York City.</p>

<p>The untold story of the Mercury 13, the first American women who test for space flight.</p> <p>Director | Kim Albright<br /> Writer | : Avril E. Russell<br /> Producers | Chi Thai, Catherine Vetere<br /> Casting Director | Kate Plantin CDG<br /> Director of Photography | Mark Nutkins<br /> Production Designer | Tony Noble Costume Designer: Laura Smith<br /> Hair &amp; Make Up Artist | Amy Louise Ellen<br /> Composer | Hollie Buhagiar<br /> Sound Designer | Ben Baird<br /> Editor | Tommaso Gallone</p>

<p>The artificial flavor of banana is based on a fruit that no longer exists. Gross Michelle was, until 1960, America&rsquo;s most popular strand of bananas. Its obituary is bleak, gooey, and speaks about the past, present and future global food politics.</p> <p>Director | Ana P&eacute;rez L&oacute;pez&nbsp;<br /> Sound | Laura Sofia Perez<br /> Voice | Hannah Peterson</p>

<p>A jeweler tells his children the story of diamond. An existential perspective of the history of the precious stone, supported by the voice of a storyteller prone to digress&hellip;</p>

<p>A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema. The atmosphere of old film theatres is recalled through a mixture of handmade techniques. In the back of the story moves Mr Sand, a mysterious character. Real or imagined.</p>

<p>Combining 35mm photography of former sets of science-fiction films with computer-generated imagery,&nbsp;<em>Silica</em>&nbsp;explores territorial constructs and the boundaries of the real and the mediated in an opal mining town in the South Australian desert. Charting the journey of a film location scout, notions of settlement and belonging are investigated through images of a town in the midst of abandonment.</p>

<p>In &ldquo;Les fleurs&rdquo; one sees with high-speed cameras formations that are reminiscent of a basket-inflorescence, as we know from poppy or sunflower.&nbsp;</p>

<p><em>Ampersand</em>&nbsp;is science visualization meets visual music. The film takes the audience on a relaxing musical journey from the subatomic to the galactic and touches on many core ideas of science like the wave particle duality, evolution, and pollination.</p> <p>The title &quot;Ampersand&quot; (or &quot;and&quot;) is meaningful because everything is made from the same energy &mdash; the same atoms, which act as particles AND waves &mdash; and because everything in the film is in flux to become something else. Subatomic particles and waves appear and dance with the music. Alternating between abstract and representational scenes, we zoom out to see mitosis, evolution, pollination. Finally, we reach the galactic scale and return to the dot and wave pattern from the beginning. An explosion creates a mandala made from all of the abstract forms from the film. Everything from the subatomic to the humongous is seen in one view, moving to the music, representing unity and awe of nature. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Director Bio</strong></p> <p>Erin Shea is a multimedia designer and artist living in Venice, CA. Originally from Colorado, her work is driven by her love of nature, and seeks to visualize information in playful and awe-inspiring ways. She received an MFA in Animation from USC Film School where she won a Sloan Science in Film grant, and she currently designs at Signal Sciences.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Production Credits</strong></p> <p><u>Director</u>: Erin Shea</p> <p><u>Animation</u>: Erin Shea and Sim&oacute;n Wilches Castro</p> <p><u>Music</u>: &quot;In Love with Dusk&quot; by Keep Shelly in Athens</p> <p><u>Sound Design</u>: Marcello Dubaz</p> <p><u>Faculty advisors</u>: Mike Patterson and Candace Reckinger</p>

<p>Beware what you throw in the sea! A monstrous creature of our own making stalks a seaside town and returns our plastic litter to use in the most devastating way.</p>

<p>On the island of Saipan, a young girl&rsquo;s mysterious dream about a haggan, or green sea turtle, leads her to investigate the sea turtles that live around her home. Join her adventure to find turtles, which leads to a wonderful birthday wish.</p> <p>Producers | Stephani Gordon, Laura Sams, Robert Sams<br /> Written, Directed, and Edited by | Laura Sams, Robert Sams<br /> Director of Photography | Stephani Gordon<br /> Cast | Kaya Rain S. Rasa, Jacoba Seman, Becky Furey, Robert Sams, Laura Sams, Jonathan Wolf<br /> Local Turtle Researchers | Tammy Summers, Jessy Hapdei, James Roberto<br /> Marine Turtle Technical Advisor | Irene Kinan Kelly, NOAA Fisheries</p>

<p>A contemplative journey through nature and its various facets, guides by a mysterious being. The voyage puts into question our place in the universe and makes us reflects on the elements that surround us.</p>

<p>Finite, unique and irreplaceable &ndash; fossil fuels are still our most important source of energy. While our demand for oil is always increasing, our supply is limited. The animation Hydrocarbon hones in on the bigger picture of our energy-predicament with a narrative focused on reason and simplicity.</p>

<p>An astronaut guides us through the international space station on his way to the communications room. He has a video meeting with his 5 year old daughter Annie, who is preparing for her first day of school. She is worried about this unknown experience so he tries to give her courage with an inspirational bedtime story. The story is a re-telling of the apollo 11 moon landing, told in a language reminiscent of children&#39;s storybooks.&nbsp;</p> <p>The film concludes with an image which Annie has drawn on her first day at school, depicting herself as an astronaut in response to the exercise &#39;what do I want to be when I grow up&#39;.</p> <p>This is an animated short film, transitioning between two visual languages to portray the two parallel storylines.</p> <p>Director | Joseph Childs, Iro Tsavala<br /> Animator | Joseph Childs<br /> Sound and atmospherics | Joseph Childs<br /> Music | Semper Fidelis performed by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra<br /> composed by | John Philip Sousa<br /> Cast | Thom Dowse, Annie Mahdavi West</p>

<p>CERN&rsquo;s new Large Hadron Collider is a fraction of the size and can be assembled in an hour&hellip; from legos.</p> <p>This is a parody of an Apple iPad commercial, created by enthusiasts of LEGO / CERN &amp; the science community to humorously raise awareness of a design for a LEGO Large Hadron Collider.</p> <p>Produced and Directed by | Chris Hart and Tammy Miles<br /> Edited by | Chris Hart<br /> Screenwriter | Tammy Miles<br /> Cast | Dr James Gillies<br /> Camera | Jacques Herve Fichet<br /> Lego model designed by | Nathan Readioff<br /> Sound Design | Pete Howell and Ben Wood<br /> With thanks to | Prof Peter Higgs, Maarten Wilbers, Prof Rolf Heuer, Paul Wilson, Michael Holman, Murdo MacLeod, New Creations, Tested<br /> With kind permission from | CERN, Lego, NASA and Apple</p>

<p>"It's like having thousands of pets!" Dish Life compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to the challenge of looking after a gang of unruly kids. In conversation with real-life children, scientists show how tricky it is to work with these &lsquo;super cells&rsquo;.</p> <p>Dish Life is the result of a collaboration between filmmaker Chloe Thomas (director), and stem cell researcher Loriana Vitillo &amp; sociologist Karen Jent (executive producers). The film was realised with funding from the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust and is part of the&nbsp;<a href="http://lifeinglass.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life in Glass</a>&nbsp;initiative.</p> <p>Director / Writer | Chloe Thomas<br>Producers | Loriana Vitillo, Karen Jent<br>DoP | Gabi Norland<br>Sound | Bridget Bradshaw<br>Editor | Michael Johnson<br>Music | Jim Meacock</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Educational short film about the harvest of sun milk.</p>

<p>11-year old&nbsp;Jesper is having a great day at the beach with his sister. Because of the weather, there are many jellyfish.</p>

<p>Puck remembers the night when his cat gave birth to kittens in his bed.</p>

<p>Guided by a voice that takes us into this colourful and swarming world, we discover the ZooZ ecosystem: the squabbling and cooperation, the laws that govern food and movement and the overall equilibrium that supports this small universe. As it isn&rsquo;t very big, links can quickly be established, proving to be useful, and this animal that we saw here, here it is again somewhere else&hellip;</p>

<p>A short macro sci-fi journey to planet nine. Alien worlds created by taking a closer look at our own.</p>

<p>Oscillating between aesthetic and documentary forms, KALTES TAL describes the daily business of a strip mine harvesting lime. The material removed is processed and returned to nature through forest liming. This measure attempts to counteract acid rain that troubles the forest floor. A cycle like a Mobius strip &ndash; an irreversible consequence due to the mining materials in order to restore the fragile natural balance. Lime dust delicately dusts the forest floor. A white, spherical alternative world opens, questioning our ambivalent relationship to nature.</p>

<p>Urth documents the failed and shut-down ecosystem Biosphere 2.0 in Arizona. A science-fiction-like, pyramidal building and a laboratory for the creation of an artificial Planet Earth to deal with climate change&rsquo;s destruction of our own version.</p>

<p>Iridescent waves, geometrical gardens, and spiraling sand dunes found in the landscapes of a crystal&#39;s microscopic structure.</p> <p>Made possible at the <a href="http://naturelab.risd.edu/discover/student-work-maria-ferreiras-crystal-imaging/">RISD Nature Lab</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>From Source to Poem is an invitation to think about the spaces in which history and cultural production is preserved in order to be passed on to future generations. On the one hand, it pursues Barba&rsquo;s research initiated with The Hidden Conference (2010-2015), a three-part film work exploring museum storages and whose title refers to imaginary conversations taking place between artworks inside these invisible spaces and of authors that have often not been contemporaries but their artworks can continue to speak through different time zones &ndash; on the other hand, it is a reflection about the obsession of preserving any output of western culture in any possible medium.&nbsp;From Source to Poem shifts the focus from artworks into archival storage: Shot at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center of the Library of Congress in Culpeper, Virginia, and at an enormous solar power plant in the Mojave Desert in California, it juxtaposes images from the largest media archive worldwide with a study of rhythm and images of cultural production with those of industrial production. Like the temporal property of two things happening at the same time, &ldquo;the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable&rdquo;. The film exposes the preservation of cultural outputs, but also their digitisation for the future. A vast number of the archives&rsquo; holdings are sound material (audio recordings, wax discs, vinyl and LPs); a sonic memory which is recovered and mixed in the soundtrack as a mean to set in motion otherwise unlikely dialogues.</p> <p>Nowhere in this Universe is there any forgetting, but it&rsquo;s all forgettable as any clam. Light is transmitting into the future and storing memory in a territory without radio. Narrative time can also be delaying, cyclic, or motionless. In any case, story as an operation carried out on the length of time involved, and enchantment that acts on the passing of time, either contracting or dilating it.</p> <p>&ldquo;The film is a continuation of the thought, which brings together the sources: these can be kinds of inscriptions in landscapes, which we leave behind, and yet whose meaning can&rsquo;t really be translated or projected into the future. These can also be documents, and even rumours; narratives that people haven&rsquo;t written down but that just exist somehow as source material in some form. I was thinking about the Library of Congress, the media archive at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center as being some sort of white noise as all this information and all these sources become so compressed that it could be compared with light. I filmed a series of light production systems in the desert, such as solar plants where actual electricity and light energy is collected, then put these against each other with texts about the history of the Culpeper Center, and of the building itself, which was actually built as a bunker against nuclear attacks. A simultaneous existence and composition of simultaneous order. It starts with all these facts, and then navigates to think about what this archive could mean, so in a way it perhaps turns into a sort of poetry. But primarily, the poetry part is the soundtrack, because it consists of a lot of free source material from the Library of Congress: interviews with field workers, with slaves, with native American poets, and more; and it has become a very dense soundtrack with all these voices that constitute the United States.&rdquo;</p> <p>The archive for the memorization of voices shapes time, ideas and memory of other powers and faculties formulating a &ldquo;magical memory&rdquo;, as Francis A. Yates named it. Filmed and screened on 35mm film, the work itself is preserved in one of the most durable archival forms.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Walking up to the Berkeley Pit viewing stand in Butte, Montana is like experiencing a strange, sterile birth. You enter a long, white tunnel lit with fluorescent tubes. A woman&rsquo;s voice laid over innocuous country music echoes against the smooth walls. The recorded voice describes the history of this bizarre vestige of rabid industrialization.</p> <p>Director/Producer | Anna Sagatov<br /> Camera Operator | Nick Hill<br /> Drone Operator | Hugo Sindelar</p>

<p>Special Bulletin explores the way lines shape our lives.</p>

<p>A meditative exploration in a desolate natural environment that appears to emerge from a new world, this film confronts the landscape with music and poetry.&nbsp;<br /> We travel through the glaciers and lava fields of a forming world unspoiled by human activity.</p>

<p>A caveman meets a spaceman.</p> <p>Director | Evan Mann<br /> Producer | Otherworldly Productions (Evan Mann)<br /> DP | Brook Aitken</p> <p>Cave Man | Nolan Brown<br /> Space Man | Andrew Finzel<br /> Milk Man | Valerie Simon<br /> Old Man | Rick Romero<br /> Baby | Anna Mann</p> <p>Music | Joseph Reuben (orgional score) and Radio Futura<br /> Colorist | Waylon Kane<br /> Editing | Evan Mann<br /> Sound Design | Evan Mann<br /> Art Design | Evan Mann</p> <p>Production Manager | Alex Lorn-Krauss<br /> Hair/Makeup | Courtney Sherer<br /> Still Photography | Nathan Rega and josh Daniels with Harper Point Photography<br /> Production Assistants | Claire Anderson, Chau Simon, Travis Powell, Holden Boyles, Audrey Williamson, Caleb Gillen, Daria Mehra, Lucas Grimm, Deborah Mann, David Chang, Deborah Diaz, Austin Parkhill, Carrol Reeves</p> <p>Life Art Dance Ensemble<br /> Dancers | Jessica Riggs, Laura Morales, Megan Roney,<br /> Team Manager | Adam Riggs</p> <p>These people contributed to this project in a subtle but integral way | Deborah Mann, Anna Mann, Baby Mann, Michael Langan, Andrew Huang, Fredo Jones, Allen Moulton, Louise Martorano, Angela Hopkins and my mother</p>

<p>Pupal development of a Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia). The movie was taken by Aaron Pomerantz and Damien Gailly. Pupae of &quot;blue&quot; 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 during the Marine Biological Laboratory Embryology Course. This results in a pupa that is missing not just the forewing, but also the region of the pupal case that would be covering the forewing. This leave the hindwing exposed. This time-lapse, which spans 8 days, begins just as the pupa forms and ends just as the adult butterfly is prepared to emerge. During that period, you can see the tracheal system form in the hindwing, scales grow, and both structural and pigment colors appear.</p>

<p>Butterfly Buckeye timelapse and&nbsp;zooms into the wing to show remarkable details</p>

<p>Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) wing development from the start of pupation to the time of eclosion. Here are visible the ventral surface forewing (to the left) and the dorsal surface of the forewing (to the right). Experiment by Aaron Pomerantz.</p>

<p>Based on Percy Shelley&rsquo;s poem &ldquo;The Dirge&rdquo;, Ginevra depicts the aftermath of the murder of a young woman. As her distraught mother looks on, she learns that life after death involves a transition she never could have imagined.</p> <p>Director | Tess Martin<br /> Producer | Max Rothman<br /> Composer &amp; Sound Designer | eremy Lloyd-Styles<br /> Narrator | Alexana Ryer</p>

<p>Jay wakes up in Manila, yet he dreamed of Athens. He has a nightmare, during which he has a special quest: to save his two daughters from a special surgery: their houses are on them, and they need to be removed.</p> <p>In his attempt to fetch them, he roams around Athens&rsquo; cityscape, seeing things under a very different light, while he narrates his dream to his wife.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A playful exploration of the group dynamics within a classroom interior, in which a small girl interrupts the stifling tedium with a subtly subversive action.</p>

<p>A primal scream; is it that of the blue men, that of a monstrous creature, or perhaps that of a changing territory? An hour away from Venice, in the province of Pordenone, lives the only Tuareg community in Italy. Although they are no longer nomadic, they maintain a singular relationship with their origins and the land, passed down and preserved through stories and music in the course of journeys and many movements.</p>

<p>Arecibo, the world&rsquo;s largest radio telescope, is located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, which is also home to a critically endangered species of parrots. The telescope functions as an ear that is capable of capturing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The witty messages from the parrots remain unnoticed.</p>

<p>This trans-cinema project is an experimental-ethnographic study of current day spiritual cults in Brazil, mixing tradition and modernity. The in-depth research has driven us to collect audiovisual recordings over 60 different ceremonies all around the country for the past 3 years. From the afro-brazilian cults of Candombl&eacute; in Bahia to the new forms of Umbanda in Minas Gerais, from the biggest catholic manifestation in the world in Bel&eacute;m do Par&aacute; to new uses of entheogens in S&atilde;o Paulo, from indigenous ancestral rituals in Acre to the rise of the evangelical cults in Rio de Janeiro, the audiovisual collection showcases an incredible array of cultural diversity and constantly evolving ritualistic forms. The project is as well a research into the forms of cinema today, and how to &#39;represent the invisible&#39;. With a visual language combining long shots of intense musical sequences and a contemplative point of view of the world, our aim is to create an immersion for the viewer, as a personal journey towards the poetry of humankind and the mystic rhythms of syncretism, revealing the deepest expressions of the Brazilian soul.</p>

<p>A grain of sand in the system.</p>

<p>A Numbness in the Mouth takes place in an Ireland of the near-future; a self-sustaining, militarized island where climate change has benefited agricultural production. A spokesperson for the government&rsquo;s Ministry of Food- speaking in the Irish language- informs us that due to a record crop yield of wheat there is a surplus of flour on the market, and the economic balance between supply and demand must be retained. To this end, rations are being enforced with each citizen requested to consume more than five pounds of flour per day.</p> <p>Shackleton&rsquo;s Mill in Strawberry Beds, Dublin, provides the context to explore our relationship to food, its production and consumption in a series of staged scenes, monologues and analogies. Interpolated into the film is an infomercial from the 1950s of a mother baking bread for her children. The two performers inhabit familiar roles and images of women in television which begin to unravel as they reflect on how food affects their temperament, bathe in a vat of orange jelly and sift flour onto their own heads.</p> <p>The roles in the film are inhabited by Sin&eacute;ad N&iacute; Uallach&aacute;in (a broadcaster with RT&Eacute; Raidi&oacute; na Gaeltachta) and Jenny Swingler (a performer, writer and theatre director based in London).</p> <p>Kindly supported by Sky Academy Arts Scholarship, The Arts Council of Ireland, and Fingal Arts Office.</p>

<p>In September 1986, the city of Cleveland attempted to set a special record: the simultaneous launch of 1.5 million balloons. But fate intervened, and the result was both crazier and more tragic than anyone could have imagined.</p> <p>More from the Mixtape:&nbsp;<a href="https://go.topic.com/2snbncu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">go.topic.com/2snbncu</a></p>

<p>Five years after the nuclear disaster that hit the Fukushima prefecture, life goes on for the inhabitants.</p> <p>Director | Eve Ceccarelli<br /> producer | La Poudri&egrave;re<br /> Sound design | Mathieu Tiger<br /> Voice Cast | Kengo Saito, Masato Matsuura , Yumi Catoire-Tomita, Asami Catoire-Tomita, Kahntalo Catoire-Tomita, Madame Urata, Toshiko Yasumoto, Shiho Kasahara , Kaori Bont&eacute;.<br /> Editing | Myriam Copier</p>

<p>Julio C&eacute;sar Cu C&aacute;mara&nbsp;is the chief diver in the Mexico City sewerage system, he job is to&nbsp;repair pumps and dislodge garbage that flows into the gutters to maintain the circulation&nbsp;of sewerage waters.<br /> ​<br /> &nbsp;</p>

<p>In Lesvos island an old abandoned dump lies on a mountain with two big craters. The craters are overflown by thousands of life jackets from the refugee waves. A worker is the only inhabitant in this place that resembles an alien planet or a new continent.</p>

<p>Self-replicating entities that have evolved on different planets merge and proliferate exponentially. In search of more energy sources, they consume other stars.</p>

<p>&ldquo;While we watch the &lsquo;cat fail&rsquo; of the day in cheerful safety, all that remains invisible in this neoliberal nightmare catches up with us. The cat&rsquo;s body is consumed, exploited and controlled. The fear of pain is greater than the will for freedom. Objects are fetishised and subjects are made into things &ndash; quantifiable and ready for use. They are the natural commodity for a luxury they are not even aware of. We are here, because you were there &ndash; and waste is disposed of in the sea. In the end, the bodies reveal the causes and effects of power, lust and hate.&rdquo; (Brenda Lien)</p>

<p>&quot;Dead Reckoning&quot; is a ride around Vienna&#39;s Ringstrasse boulevard and from there to go into the city, to fall, to eat, and finally to end up on the toilet. Death is always there, always in front of us. The film follows the cycle of life, the rhythm of the city. The British-Austrian duo of Susan Young and Paul Wenninger works with animation and stop-motion technology. The filming locations show how Vienna has been influenced by cultures from around the world. An animated skeleton symbolizes the morbid humor of the Viennese and even appears as a grumpy waiter ...</p>

<p>Adapted from a series of micro-fiction tweets by @quietpinetrees, this amusing pastiche of educational shorts illuminates the benefits and dangers of lesser known vitamins.</p>

<p>A discussion between two friends where one tells the other about the very strange time when, next to the swimming-pool, she learnt about her father&rsquo;s prostate, the state of his erectile function, then, with no warning, his night-time fantasies.</p>

<p>This animation is a slice of a woman&rsquo;s life and routine who lives with a monster in her chest...</p>

<p>Kate Prigge of the Monell Chemical Senses Center studies what things smell like&mdash;to us, to canines, and to machines. By using many different sensing technologies, from mass spectrometers to working dogs, she is honing in on the smells that signal health and disease. In her latest work, Prigge is getting help from medical working dogs that are able to smell ovarian cancer in patient samples. The next step is to design a machine that can do as good a job as a German Shepard in picking out odors linked to the disease. Learn more:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/projects/xxfiles">http://www.sciencemag.org/projects/xxfiles</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Three individuals live clockwork existences, dictated by a strict regime of medication and the challenging physical reality of living with Parkinson's. Meanwhile, a team of dedicated scientists in Galway are developing a new medical device, which could potentially halt or even cure the devastating disease. Woven together with observation and animation, the film invites us to witness the story of groundbreaking medical science taking place in Galway and the profound impact this will have on people with Parkinson's Disease both nationally and worldwide.</p> <p>This project is part of the Science on Screen 2016 initiative, commissioned by the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research in Medical Devices (C&Uacute;RAM) and Science Foundation Ireland in association with Galway UNESCO City of Film and Galway Film Centre.</p>

<p>Growing a multispecies image of our body-subject.</p> <p><em>Hybridities: Almost Other</em>&nbsp;seeks to present revealing &quot;biometric auto portraits&quot; evoking both our human face and our invisible evolutionary counterpart, our microbiota, in order to re-evaluate what being human really means.</p>

<p>Josiah Zayner, a former NASA scientist turned bio-hacker, seeks to rid himself of ongoing physical ailments by replacing all the bacteria living inside of him with that of a donor&#39;s. This method involves, among other things, swallowing pills made of the donor&#39;s poop, and scrubbing himself &quot;clean&quot; with antibiotics. Zayner shrugs off his many detractors, claiming his dangerous self-treatment is worth it.</p>

<p>We all grow old eventually. But do we really have to? Could humans be immortal one day? Through the work of global leading scientists on three incredible kinds of animal that don&rsquo;t really age like we do, Lifespan reveals some of the surprising causes of human aging, and what we could do about it. This short documentary takes a personal approach, blending science interviews, laboratory footage and macro photography to get up close with hydras, fruit flies and naked mole rats.</p>

<p>Persistence &amp; Vision is a video animation project that explores science from the perspectives of undergraduate research students at the University of Manitoba. It celebrates their work and the questions they are trying to answer, enhances the communication of science across disciplines, and delves into what it is really like to do research. Each video focuses on one undergraduate student and one research project, and each is a look into a different world of science.</p> <p>In this first video of the series, Ryan Sherbo describes the experience of doing math-bio research to model the spread of disease.</p> <p>This project was produced as part of the STEAM initiative at the University of Manitoba, through collaboration between several science-minded people.</p> <p>Mahalia Lepage (animations, editing, co-director)<br /> B.Sc. (genetics / biochemistry), University of Manitoba<br /> Mahalia has research experience and a science background of her own, which she draws from to produce imagery and visualizations with a certain scientific authenticity. Persistence &amp; Vision is her first animation project.</p> <p>Jeremiah Yarmie (video / audio, editing, co-director)<br /> B.Sc. (genetics / biochemistry), University of Manitoba<br /> M.S.Comm, Laurentian University (in progress)<br /> Jeremiah is a science writer and communicator, also with science and research experience to back it up. His interests and skills converge in exploring science through video and new media, through which he especially likes to tell stories and connect to the human aspects of science.</p> <p>Seema Goel (producer, co-director)<br /> B.Sc. (environmental biology), McGill University<br /> M.A. (sculpture), Rhode Island School of Design<br /> Seema is an artist who produces work that plays at the interface of art and science, frequently with interactive or responsive elements. She is currently the first STEAM Coordinator and Artist-In-Residence for the University of Manitoba Faculty of Science.</p> <p>Kira Koop (video)<br /> B.F.A., University of Manitoba<br /> M.LIS, San Jose State University (in progress)<br /> Kira is an artist / photographer who explores the lab and field through her camera. She is currently the STEAM photographer for the University of Manitoba Faculty of Science.</p> <p>Alison Davis is a Winnipeg-based animation filmmaker, who helped greatly with advice about this project.</p> <p>Music: &ldquo;Pythagoras&rdquo; by&nbsp;Podington Bear, Free Music Archive,&nbsp;CC BY-NC</p>

<p>You get up at five, eat your vitamins, take some water with your coffee, work for a few hours, eat your omegas and flavonoids, work a little more, get some exercise and then take a shower. ...</p>

<p>A motion-induced delirium that loosens the borders between earth and sky, between being awake and dreaming: &quot;A cinematographic look through the &#39;egocentric camera&#39; as homage to cinema as a site of contemplation and trance&quot;.</p>

<p>Imagine a future where a complete copy of you can be created and used to monitor, study, and enhance your health. A future not far from now.</p>

<p><span style="font-size:16px">This movie is an offer to open up to our future, to our ability to assure : &ldquo;We are here. This is 2030!&rdquo;. Mars Society is a display of this future, which is so far only fiction. Conversation between today&rsquo;s fiction and scientific&rsquo;s simulation, this movie is as much an archive document on contemporary research (The conquest of space), as an experimentation flirting with two genres: the scientific documentary and the fictional contemplative work.</span></p>

<p>From all directions gravity pulls on the shards of a breaking dinner plate. After stretching out to their outer limits elastic strings help the pieces of the plate to move back towards their initial starting point. Half way however the pieces slowly come to an indefinite standstill between falling and bouncing back. From this dead centre position a new cycle repeats itself. In this fluctuating process all the pieces collectively develop into a large self-reflecting structure. While at the same time expressing their individual qualities in movement, position and sound through the elastic string connection.</p> <ul> </ul>

<p>With joy and merriness&quot; is a experimental documentary where we observe, through every day scenes, the degeneration of a society where the rise of technology leads the population to the biggest dream of all men: immortality</p>

<p>The world is a wonderful stage, but the casting is deplorable.</p>

<p><span style="color:#ff0000"><em>The film is not yet available. Stay tuned for release date</em></span></p> <p>On a train trip through spatial and temporal dimensions the traveller suddenly comes across himself. #cat</p>

<p>Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which body is a commodity and money is immortality. From space spa colonies to alien plantations, everybody is forced to take care of their bodies.</p>

<p>At the core of this film collage is the artist&rsquo;s search for the face of her deceased twin brother, who died without leaving behind any photographic record. Using archive footages and her own home movies, paradoxically his absence is rendered perceptible through a profusion of images. An indirect portrait as the confirmation of an existence.</p>

<p>We must protect this house.</p>

<p>A tiny bug tries to figure out what it wants to become.</p>

<p>Dr. Manly, the worlds leading Climate Scientist and Bodybuilding Champion, gets to the bottom of global warming. VHS, 1982.</p>

<p>Muscles, skin, a heart... they all long to be touched. Bodies want to experience closeness with other bodies.</p>

<p>1990, after the fall. A man struggles to survive in the forest, living alone in a small cabin. One day he spots a mysterious child in an abandoned summer camp.</p>

<p dir="ltr">In the 17th century, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, a draper from Delft, begins to make glass lenses, in order to better study the quality of his textile. He melts, drips and grinds small beads of glass. His tiny lenses are so bright and have such magnifying power that the draper seems to have entered a new dimension.&nbsp;Is he the first to see little moving &lsquo;animals&rsquo; in a drop of water? How to describe something that nobody ever saw before?</p> <p dir="ltr">In the film Every Tear, Sarah Vanagt starts a journey into her home city of Brussels, with Leeuwenhoek&rsquo;s microscope at hand. She picks up bits and pieces on her road, and tries to find out out what the first microscopic images may have looked like. She replaces the lens of her camera by the 17th century lens. As she is filming, she wonders why we always look for shapes that we already know, whenever we are in the eye of the unknown.</p>

<p>Microscopy, timelapse, and observation beautifully captures a lab&#39;s full study of squid embryonic development.</p> <p>Original score gives a momentum and underscores the aesthetic beauty of these images and data.</p> <p>Squid Development&nbsp;with music composed and performed by Kristina&nbsp;Dutton and&nbsp;Nathan Clevenger.</p>

<p>Underwater creatures&mdash;snapping shrimp, bearded seals, and more&mdash;populate the soundscape here, alongside the ghost voice of biologist Lynn Margulis, who rails against authority, societal amnesia, and easy answers. Margulis considers the genesis of complex entities, from maternally-inherited mitochondria to chloroplasts in green algae, and the potential obliteration of our species. Heredity does not always leap over oblivion, as Thomas Hardy imagined, to carry forward &ldquo;trait and trace, through time to times anon.&quot;</p>

<p>This is a short visual-music work inspired by astounding Ernst Haeckel&#39;s drawings. The main plot could seem unexplainable at first glance but yet it is quite simple. Our goal was to express the relationship between the environment and the complexity of morphogenesis of the organic life.</p>

<p>In parallel interviews, the biologists Niles Eldredge and Armand Marie Leroi&nbsp;discuss Eldredge&#39;s theory of Punctuated Equilibria&nbsp;(the idea that species evolve in sudden jumps) and Leroi&#39;s&nbsp;Darwinian&nbsp;study of revolutions in the history of pop music.&nbsp;Taking in Eldredge&rsquo;s&nbsp;work on trilobite fossils, his vast collection of brass musical instruments, and Leroi&#39;s algorithmic cultural genealogies, the film reflects on&nbsp;the analogies and differences between biological evolution and cultural change.<br /> <br /> Camera, sound and edit by Duncan Marquiss. Sound mixed by Derek O&#39;Neill. Commissioned by Glasgow Film Festival &amp; LUX Scotland&nbsp;through the&nbsp;Margaret Tait Award.&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</p>

<p>Photon&nbsp;looks at the universe&#39;s smallest building blocks and biggest mysteries in a staggering cinematic experience of the kind that you have literally never seen before. From the Big Bang to the quantum revolution, and from the beginning of time to the creation of planets and the evolution of biological life over eons &ndash;&nbsp;and heading towards an unknown future. A picture is worth a thousand words, and the fascinating visualisations of the biggest questions of science that we experience here are both a two-hour long, thought-provoking and densely packed physics lesson, and a beautiful hybrid that builds bridges between abstract, scientific research and the communication of the its ideas. Animated patterns of particles, waves and phenomena that are both too small and too large to observe with the naked eye, communicate their secrets to us in a visual language that is anchored in human narratives. Norman Leto&#39;s film is inspired by the best-selling author David Deatsch&#39;s work on books like &#39;The Beginning of Infinity&#39; and &#39;The Fabric of Reality&#39;.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>A visually stunning film illuminating the minute battles of&nbsp;nature from the micro to macro scale as a rhinoceros beetle,&nbsp;attacked by a fungus, struggles between life and death.&nbsp;Even the tiniest things can have a huge impact.</p>

<p>The slow metamorphosis of a man into machine.</p>

<p>A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H-, falls madly in love with an H+.</p> <p>Watch trailer on <a href="https://vimeo.com/186663376">Vimeo</a>.</p>

<p>With&nbsp;<em>Mind Frame</em>, Jake Fried&nbsp;focuses&nbsp;on removing &ldquo;overt symbolism and iconography&rdquo; in order to concentrate on what he calls the &ldquo;flesh&mdash;human experience and expression.&rdquo;</p> <p>Hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee.
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<p>With YouTube videos of dogs, chatbot dialogue windows and iTunes visualizers,&nbsp;See a Dog, Hear a Dog&nbsp;considers the defects and value produced by attempts at communication among humans, animals and machines, both directly and as mediated by one another. Through this, the film becomes an analytical tragicomedy as an approach to technology.</p>

<p>It is year 2039. An artificial intelligence with the affective capaticies of a kitten becomes the first non-human governor. She leads a politician-free zone with a network of Artificial Intelligences. She lives in mobile devices of the citizens and can love up to 3 Million people</p>

<p>We take a poor human person, like you, and treat them like a pawn in our game. Watch as neuroscientist, Wallace L. Graybill, attempts to receive money coins from grants for his important research. It will be candy for your tum tum.</p>

<p>MEASUREMENTS (from IMPRESSIONS) by Jillian Mayer (2016) &nbsp;is a targeted campaign by artist Jillian Mayer examining &nbsp;new ways of looking. Mimicking the appropriative gestures&nbsp;of&nbsp;advertising and prosumer media, Mayer&rsquo;s direct message explores &nbsp;what can be obtained from a face.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A young man visits an old ex-boyfriend to redo their lost relationship</p>

<p>With a science fiction undercurrent, &lsquo;Toru&rsquo; centers on the story of a baby boy, named Toru, born with a fatal lung condition. As he only has a few days to live Toru&rsquo;s parents sign him up for a trial experiment that would simulate a full life in a matter of days. The film follows Toru&rsquo;s dream-like life simulation as a boy named Todd growing up in a New England suburb and concludes in futuristic Japan.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Aisha, Fatima and Ghareeb are amongst the best known honey specialists in the northern parts of the UAE. Ghareeb is also considered a beekeeper because he established a sanctuary at the top of the mountains, where he can be in control of the surrounding environment and protect his honeybees. Fatima and Aisha prefer to roam the mountains freely to find the highest natural honey. Meanwhile, the bees are coping with climate change, survival challenges and the production of honey. Involuntarily, the bees have become integral to the lives of Aisha, Fatima and Ghareeb. But, for how long and to what extent can the bees keep providing?</p> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p>Director :&nbsp;Nujoom Alghanem<br /> Producer : Nujoom Alghanem, Khalid Albudoor<br /> Scriptwriter : Nujoom Alghanem<br /> DOP : Benjamin Pritchard<br /> Editor : Anne De Mo<br /> Composer : Mohammed Haddad<br /> Cast : Aisha Al Naqbi, Fatima Al Naqbi, Ghareeb Al Yammahi, Aisha Al Naqbi, Fatima Sanad, Ghareeb Al Yamahai</p>