Playlist
<p>An ongoing collaboration between visual artists Memo Akten and Quayola, a series of visual studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time.</p>
<p>A comedic, satirical, sci-fi pop musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists, PostModem is the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with technological singularity, as told through a series of cinematic tweets.</p>
<p>20Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.</p>
<p>We all have this energy that we can feel, a vital life force inside of us… what would it look like if we could see it? Amy Karle connects her body and consciousness to technology to create art, repurposing a Sandin Image Processor as an electrophysiological visualization device. While meditating, Amy Karle inputs her biofeedback into the historically significant Sandin IP analog computer to generate the output of image and sound. The artwork is both the long-duration performance art as well as the artwork that is created in the process. To learn more visit www.amykarle.com</p>
<p>We went for it without any hesitation.<br /> We've formed the world at a quickening pace.<br /> What on earth is this world that we’ve created?<br /> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">An evolving abstract visualization of the patterns formed by overlapping sine waves set in conjunction to music.</span></span></span></p>
<p>This animation shows the 2299 high-quality (multiple transits), non-circumbinary transiting planet candidates found by NASA's Kepler mission so far. These candidates were detected around 1770 unique stars, but are animated in orbit around a single star. They are drawn to scale with accurate radii, orbital periods, and orbital distances.</p>
<p>The world is submerged in uncertainty. Atom is wave, wave is signal. This movie shows uncertainty by the technique of changing media from PC to paper, from paper to water, from water to PC.</p>
<p>Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. His family introduced him to the computer and Microsoft Paint long after he retired. Now, Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. His work is a blend of pointillism and 8-Bit art. Meet 98-year-old Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter.</p>
<p>A short film showing the process of turning a digital music file into a 3D model, and 3D printing a working record that plays on a standard turntable.</p>
<p>Brief moments of life stolen from passing-by strangers form a sequence of events hidden in plain sight.</p>
<p>A short futuristic film featuring Augmented reality and Gamification.</p>
<p>"I always thought I had a perfect memory, I wanted to show these drawings to you?". A collection of memories, images and loss.</p>
<p>"Longing for a home that no longer exists or perhaps has never existed" - Svetlana Boym. From a 17th century medical illness to a permanent modern condition, nostalgia fell through the cracks of academic disciplines becoming a hypochondria of the heart to be treated by poets and artists. Weaving together various new and archival materials, the film delves into the art of remembering and the neuroscience of memory, prompting us to ask what is that we see when we reminisce - the past, a theater or the work of art of our own memory? This poetic meditation on nostalgia focuses around Harvard professor, artist and immigrant Svetlana Boym. Creating art that tells of the longing for a home that no longer exists or perhaps has never existed, Svetlana builds meaning from fragments of memory, taking the audience on a journey through the art and science of nostalgia, celebrating the past layers and sediments of stories surrounding us.</p>
<p>The early avant-garde filmmakers believed that the cinema had the function of a machine, made to generate pure feelings. The main part of this "machine" was the celluloid, which has disappeared along with the flickering ghosts inside of it.</p>
<p>The wife of a wealthy man hires memory erasing agents to erase the memory of the young lover with whom he is having an affair but soon realizes that the young lover will stop at nothing to keep the man's love for her alive.</p>
<p>When a group of friends invent a machine to slow down time, the results aren't quite what they expected.</p>
<p>The Decelerator Helmet offers the user a perception of the world in slow motion. It is a experimental approach for thinking about our increasingly fast moving, globalized society.</p>
<p>Learning and Memory leave behind anatomically visible traces. Tobias Bonhoeffer was the first to observe them. Together with his team, he examines the contact points between nerves, so-called dendrical thorns, and synapses. The researcher discovered that during learning some thorns newly develop and others disappear.</p>
<p>After the human genome has been sequenced, not much has changed. Sometimes a father and a son still have to just talk things out in therapy.</p>
<p>In May 2010, after record rainfall, flash flood broke embankments of the Vistula near Wilków. Catastrophic flooding deprived thousands of people of all their possessions and roofs over their heads. A few weeks later Zbigniew Czapla found a box of old photographs in his family house also ravaged by the element. The unique family mementoes left were destroyed by water, mud and mould. This film is a desperate attempt to keep memories, reconstruct people and events of the past. An impression on the transitory nature of memory, inevitability of fading and the destructive force of elements.</p>
<p>Remanence, or residual magnetization, is the property where by a demagnetized material retains a trace of its original magnetization. Remanence I-IV is a series of works created from a demagnetized VHS library copy of Jonas Mekas' Lost, Lost, Lost (1976). The works use the orignal VHS tape and its remanent magnetic fields as its source material for generating both sound and image. The sound is taken directly from the cathode ray tube using an electromagnetic microphone.</p>
<p>Lost in a reverie, a man reels with sudden, piercing awareness of his own state of being. He ponders the world in which he lives - from the evolution of life and the atomic particles that constitute matter, to the mystery of memory and the enigma of death. Bounded by a walled enclosure, he is both unique and no different than anyone else who has searched in vain for the key to the great beyond. Through four tableaux that explore her character's thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a mischievous look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity's eternal quest for meaning. An abstract yet compelling philosophical tale, Here and the Great Elsewhere turns the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen into a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Live-edited anew each time it screens by a computer dubbed the “Serendipity Machine”, a cache of thousands of video & sound fragments propel a story without beginning or end, but with an infinite number of middle moves.</span></span></span></p>
<p>A journey through time & space, and the fight for existence. A dark premise contrasted with the divine imaginary creates a hypnotic ride of tone and emotion. Only “in-camera effects” were used to capture “Sci-Fly”. The wonders of our own world were filmed in order to create another.</p>
<p>A tribute to the International Space Station Program and Dr. Don Pettit, NASA Astronaut and ISS Astrophotographer. It can not be overemphasized how Dr. Pettit’s otherworldly, groundbreaking photographic work on the ISS and his passion for astrophotography changed the way we see earth from space. Accompanied with background info on the challenges of astrophotography aboard the ISS by Dr. Pettit and some previously unseen ISS video footage, this shortfilm features a compilation of 4 special ISS timelapses: “intro”, “startrails”, “fisheye” and “aurorae”. Don Pettit’s heart and soul, and a years work has gone into the making of these wonderful sequences, never done before on the International Space Station. Christoph Malin, an international specialist on low light imaging and timelapse processing has meticulously selected, stacked, rendered and edited the compilation from then thousands of images from NASA’s gateway to astronaut’s photography on earth as well as archives of Dr. Pettit. So this film is truly making the invisible visible. Welcome aboard the ISS – enjoy stunning photography and timelapses from the Space Station!</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">A film about what goes on above our heads. Earth’s control box gets broken. For an alien caretaker, what seems like another day at work, ends up completely different.</span></span></span></p>
<p>Imagine a city in space, a round structure miles across that millions of people would call home. Engineers working at NASA in the 1970s developed colorful proposals for permanent settlements in space, but their plans were shelved and forgotten. Decades later, a new generation of dreamers from high schools around the world aspire to mine asteroids, terraform other planets, and venture to the stars. The students have come together for a contest at NASA, and have big plans for the next millennium.</p>
<p>Solar flares don’t just create beautiful polar lights, but can also damage satellites and disrupt power grids. Astrophysicist Sami Solanki attached a telescope to a giant helium balloon to research into the activity of the Sun.</p>
<p>NASA-produced narration by William Shatner is remixed with public-domain footage from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and other missions and source reels, backed up with a very dangerous groove from CC-licensed material.</p> <p>VIDEO</p> <p>public domain footage<br /> NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO<br /> <a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">svs.gsfc.nasa.gov</a><br /> Sea of Bubbles at Edge of Solar System<br /> Sun Grazing Comets As Solar Probes<br /> SDO Provides First Sightings of How a CME Forms<br /> SDO Detects Sunspots in Solar Interior<br /> SDO Sees Solar Ballet<br /> SDO Engineers Create What Never Was<br /> SDO: Year One<br /> SDO: Year 2<br /> SDO: Year 3<br /> Solar Back-sided Halo CME</p> <p>the Prelinger Archive<br /> <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">archive.org/details/prelinger</a><br /> Our Mr. Sun</p> <p>A/V Geeks<br /> <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/avgeeks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">archive.org/details/avgeeks</a><br /> Journey Through the Solar System, Episode 1: Our Star The Sun</p> <p>STILL PHOTOGRAPHY</p> <p>Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive<br /> <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html</a><br /> mb_2011-05_LittleDipperAndreo.jpg</p> <p>SOUNDTRACK</p> <p>bed track <br /> Elastic<br /> by Rubberband<br /> from the compilation "Cheese & Biscuits"<br /> <a href="http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/cheese-biscuits" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ektoplazm.com/free-music/cheese-biscuits</a><br /> issued under Creative Commons 3.0 license<br /> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/</a></p> <p>adapted from<br /> Dark IDM Set (Dubstep Glitch Breakcore 27-02-12)<br /> by SGE304<br /> used by permission<br /> <a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/sge304" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/sge304</a></p> <p>video & soundtrack editing<br /> Lyndon Lorenz</p> <p> </p>
<p>From April, 2003 until August, 2006, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope watched four parts of the sky as often as possible. Armed with the largest digital camera in the known universe, CFHT monitored these four fields for a special type of supernova (called Type Ia supernovae) which are created by the thermonuclear detonation of one or more white-dwarf stars. These explosions are extremely energetic, and can be seen across vast distances in space. These four fields covered roughly 16 times the area of the full Moon on the sky, or roughly 1/10,000 of the entire sky. Even though such a small fraction of the sky was monitored, 241 Type Ia supernovae were seen during the period of observation. This video is a compilation of the 241 Type Ia supernovae seen in these fields during the CFHT Legacy Survey. The four Deep Fields are shown in color, and the positions of all the supernova are illustrated as time progresses. The animation is rendered at 15 frames per second, and each frame corresponds to just under a single day (one second in the animation corresponds to roughly two weeks of real time). Each supernova is assigned a note to be played: Volume = Distance: The volume of the note is determined by the distance to the supernova, with more distant supernova being quieter and fainter. Pitch = "Stretch:" The pitch of the note was determined by the supernova's "stretch," a property of how the supernova brightens and fades. Higher stretch values played higher notes. The pitches were drawn from a Phrygian dominant scale. Instrument = Mass of Host Galaxy: The instrument the note was played on was determined by the properties of the galaxy which hosted each supernova. Supernovae hosted by massive galaxies are played with a stand-up bass, while supernovae hosted by less massive galaxies are played with a grand piano. Note that the brightness of the supernovae as shown in the animation are not to scale. Because they are so distant, even these extremely powerful explosions appear very faint upon reaching us here on Earth.</p>
<p>Being human is a fragile and fleeting opportunity to experience life and the universe around us. In the face of overwhelming darkness all we can do is to rely on and find solace in one another. This film is based on authentic emergency calls and radio traffic.</p>
<p>What if you were allowed to have only one child and had the option of selecting its genes? Would you choose for a natural or a designer baby? Every day new technologies are bringing us closer a brave new world of enhanced human beings 2.0…. What kind of world will that be? The documentary DNA Dreams features a new generation of scientists at BGI, China’s leading genomics research institute. The film follows 18-year-old scientist Zhao Bowen, who wants to find the genetic basis of intelligence by analyzing the DNA of 2,000 highly gifted children. At BGI’s cloning lab, 25-year-old Lin Lin produces pigs in all shapes and sizes. Deeply in love with her work, she feels “like a mother” to the piglets that are conceived under her microscope.</p>
<p>Creatures transform their own shapes innocently just as in a child’s play. Tearing apart and uniting, this play continues endlessly.</p>
<p>A stop-motion insight into the molecular world of DNA and the genome. The genome's complexity goes hand in hand with the technology to understand it, what can now fit on a memory stick would once have been too much for a tower of computers. The human genome project took 13 years and $2.7bn, now a full genome sequence can now be done in 2 days, for a millionth of the cost.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">A female scientist lives a lonely and isolated life on the coast of Greenland. Looking for the perfect match, she discovers a website that enables her to grow her perfect match, but there’s a possibility that things may go wrong.</span></span></span></p>
<p>The Network B software constructs visual networks by combining drawing with a generative process.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Hard Data is a data-mining, sonification, and visualization project that uses statistics from the American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq as source material for an interactive audiovisual composition based around an open-source “score” of events. Using Xenakis’ understanding of formalized music as a starting point, DuBois draws upon a variety of statistical data ranging from the visceral (civilian deaths, geospatial renderings of military actions) to the mundane (fiscal year budgets for the war) to generate a dataset that can be used for any number of audiovisual compositions. The intention of the project is to recontextualize the formal stochastic music in the context of real-world statistics, and to provide a compositional and metaphoric framework for creating an electroacoustic music relevant and significant to our time.</span></span></span></p>
<p>An original 16 mm computer generated film by Manfred Mohr 'Cubic Limit' (1973-1974) has been converted into digital format. The quality of the copy is a lo-res copy, but nevertheless shows the film from that time. A header and trailer have been added. Sequences from the film were published in the catalog Manfred Mohr, "Cubic Limit", Galerie Weiller, Paris, 1975 with the caption: Images du Film (16 mm) 'Cubic Limit'</p>
<p>A microscopic observation of physicists’ notes and equations jotted on whatever was on hand, bringing us into poignant intimacy with the scientific creative process and the travel of the human mind.</p> <p>Using physicists’ notes made on whatever they happened to have at hand – napkins, scraps of paper, newspaper – these fragments were photographed with a range of cameras and a microscope to reveal another world and new poignancy. They portray a myriad of ideas: thoughts on building and using quantum computers; musings about the foundations of quantum mechanics; discussions of toy physical theories; an idea for a new type of microscope; ideas regarding the initial amount and type of energy in the early universe; and a proposal for small reversals of the arrow of time.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Strange Lines and Distances is a two-channel audio-visual installation focusing on Guglielmo Marconi’s first transatlantic radio broadcast. The work is inspired by Marconi’s belief that sound never diminishes, but rather grows incrementally fainter and fainter. He believed that with an adequately sensitive receiver, one could amplify the echoes of history. Strange Lines and Distances looks at and listens to the past, revisiting Marconi’s original transmission sites in order to explore the hauntological aspects of radio and landscape. The installation invites a consideration of the monumental impact of the first wireless transmission, and explores the medium’s potential to conflate and fragment both space and time. Strange Lines and Distances takes its title from a passage in Francis Bacon’s utopian text New Atlantis, in which Bacon imagines a futuristic society’s culture, politics, history and media. In contradistinction, Strange Lines and Distances moves backwards, retrospectively exploring the invention of radio while looking for echoes and historical intimations of the past within the present.</p> <p>Strange Lines and Distances’ dual channels represent the transmission site in Poldhu Cove, U.K. and the receiving site at Fever Hospital, St. John’s, NL. Each historical site is documented using 16mm colour negative film. The sonic composition was created from site- specific field recordings, shortwave and longwave radio recordings and archival material. Mired in static and atmospheric interference, the recordings exist as fragmentary spectres of outport beacons, noise, musical passages and human voice. Visually, each channel contains imagery that resonates and rhymes with the opposing channel in terms of shape, line, colour, light and optical geometry. Through a visual examination of the sites’ topographical similarities, the work plays with the juxtaposition of landscape, architectural ruins, flora, and geological and meteorological phenomena. The images unfold as a series of long shots, and this play with duration creates a montage that asks the spectator to consider distance and the poetics of form.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Drawn from the philosophical text yb Voltare in 1751, describing the critical perspective towards human kind seen from an extraterrestrial presence on Earth of the proportions equivalent to that of the Earth.</p> <p>Micromegas (little/small) is a short film about the experimental sensibility leading the viewer into an exploration, a sensory voyage into three fictional environments where physical and weather parameters are both harmonious and chaotic, with ressemblence to our natural world.</p>
<p>A vast secret world is revealed within an attic during a rainstorm.</p>
<p>During a solar eclipse, nature performs a transcendental ritual. Two worlds collide and a secret gate is opened, allowing a male to reach a woman.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">In the process of rolling, particles release energy due to the friction between them and heat up. The temperature rises steadily and may lead to ignition of the hydrogen in these centers – a new star is born, made of human DNA.</span></span></span></p>
<p>Cerro Paranal is an astronomers paradise with its stunningly dark, steady and transparent sky. Located in the barren Atacama Desert of Chile it is home to some of the world's leading telescopes. Operated by the European Southern Observatory (eso.org) the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located on the Paranal mountain, composed of four 8 m telescopes which can combine their light to make a giant telescope by interferometry. Four smaller auxiliary telescopes, each 1.8 m in aperture, are important elements of the VLT interferometer. Walking on the desert near Paranal between the scattered stones and boulders on the pale red dust, feels like being on Mars but under the Earth sky. Paranal was selected for cutting edge astronomical observations also because of the sky transparency and steady atmospheric condition which let astronomers peer into tiny details in the deep cosmos using giant telescopes. This film is made with footage from the November 2011 TWAN imaging expedition to Paranal assigned by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). We photographed 14 nights in a row from usually 05:30 pm to 8:00 a.m.</p>
<p>What does it feel like to watch the thing that you love the most in the world slowly die in front of you and there is not a thing you can do about it? That is how science based artist Mara G. Haseltine felt as she collected plankton from water bodies around the world and found microscopic fragments of plastic in all her samples even from the most remote locations, and this was just the pollution visible through the microscope. Why the horror? These exquisite microscopic organisms are fundamental to the functioning of a healthy ocean which means a healthy biosphere creating over half the worlds oxygen, sequestering carbon dioxide and are the most fundamental link in the ocean’s food chain.</p> <p>Hasteltine’s discovery of microscopic pollution inspired a series of uranium infused glass sculptures that resemble surreal beings from an alternate universe, but are in fact depictions of oceanic plankton entwined with plastic. The sculptures became a set for Haseltine’s art film La Bohème: A Portrait of Today’s Oceans in Peril where the viewer ventures into a droplet of water on a microscopic scale an acidic winter ocean. Based on Giacomo Puccini’s tragic opera, La Bohème, set in 1840′s Paris “La Bohème” depicts the poor young poet Rodolfo, who falls in love with Mimi, a young grisette who is dying of consumption. In this case, Mimi is the plankton sculpture ensnared in plastic riddled with dinoflagellate parasites–a representation of our ailing oceans.</p>
<p>During a Tara Oceans expedition to study the health of the oceans, NYC sci-artist Mara Haseltine finds an unsettling presence in samples of plankton she collected. The discovery inspires her to create a sculpture revealing an ongoing invisible battle beneath the water's surface, showing that the microscopic Ocean world affects all life on Earth.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Produced in 1968 at Bell Labs, The Incredible Machine takes the viewer through the bleeding edge of 45-year-old computer science: simulated circuitry, voice synthesis, digital graphics, and–via a shocking revelation midway–a score composed entirely on a computer!</span></span></span></p>
<p>Winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award, this 60-minute documentary contains footage of Fuller never seen before in any other film. Made for the United States Information Agency in 1977 by Academy Award winner Robert Snyder and Jaime Snyder, the film gives us a substantive look at Fuller and his work. It also contains a wonderfully intimate sequence with Fuller talking about his childhood.</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.</span></span></span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Resonance is when you find the note that something sings. It runs through nature at every scale giving colour to the world. Everyone knows what resonance means in life: when you hit it off with someone, find the perfect solution to a problem or see a painting that mesmerizingly delivers the idea. This short film brings this powerful phenomenon to life.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">The lament of a lone robot bearing witness to a man-made disaster. Made using internet streams captured during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, this sci-fi is narrated by the voice of a remotely operated vehicle.</span></span></span></p>
<p>Shedding light on local and global acts of alchemy, “As Above, So Below” is a deeply personal and thought-provoking reflection on the ephemeral life of material objects. Christman’s intimate documentation of her family’s decision to have her stepfather’s ashes transformed into a memorial diamond frames a larger exploration of the recycling of matter.</p> <p>The story ranges from Belgium, where precious metals are “mined” from discarded electronics, to New York, where a long-term reclamation project is converting what was once the world’s largest landfill into the city’s second largest public park system. Overturning common conceptions of a disposable culture, this beautifully-composed essay film underscores the vast and unimagined potential lying dormant in our waste.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">In the first half of the 20th Century, a massive diesel engine in Copenhagen, Denmark was the world's largest. Still preserved and working, it fires up monthly. 'Simple Machines,' as a short visual study, takes this occasion to explore the notion of human machinery: not just what we create, but circling back to the systems inside us, before us, and beyond us. 'Simple Machines' also lays homage to communication in culture, especially our printing machines that so recently and vastly accelerated civilization. R. Luke DuBois' electronic score, much like his visual work, combines programming process and creative inspiration into an evocative, motoric result that is at once organic and digital.</span></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Just below the surface of one of the most contaminated urban waterways in the United States, microorganisms thrive amidst the toxic waste.</span></span></span></p>
<p>A man catches hermit crabs which only live on a certain island in Japan. He releases them in his hotel room. Large numbers of hermit crabs are spread around and they move freely around the room; on the bed, on the desk, on the carpet, and sometimes they get into the refrigerator. Others drop from the shelf and even go into the folds of the bed cover. They act like nothing happened and don’t even care about the man taking a video of them. It is a silent happening, but also extraordinary and ominous.</p>
<p> </p> <p>Some more cool uses for bioluminescence! Find out how fireflies are used by NASA.</p>
<p>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 and stems; Eric, a Plant Biologist, specializing in plant behaviour; Loren, a self-proclaimed “plant-alcoholic.”</p>
<p>‘Herbarium’ is a cinematographic observation based on the changes in the classification of plants. Going from classical taxonomy to genetic data-storage, Visser wonders what is left when the plant its separated from its physical features. What is a plant to us, without the sensation of smell, texture and its visual appearance?</p> <p>In a long abandoned tropical greenhouse formerly used by the biology faculty of Wageningen University, during a full moon night, the dry plants are reanimated, in a visual language where nature is shown as an artefact, devoid of any natural context.</p> <p><strong>Credits</strong><br /> Director: Barbara Visser<br /> Research & script & production: Barbara Visser & Bart Haensel<br /> Camera: Jean Counet<br /> Light: Roel Ypma<br /> Editing: Alexander Goekjian<br /> Set animators: Gunnar Daan, Pablo Pinkus, Tom Wagenaar<br /> Music: Jeroen van Veen Minimal Piano Collection, Vol. 6 & 7, Prelude nr.21 in B Flat, Prelude nr.11 in B</p>
<p><em>663114 </em>comes after the recent major earthquake which struck Japan. There is a desire as an artist to make something to leave behind and it is a piece of work that has been made with a feeling like that of a prayer.</p> <p><strong>Credits</strong><br /> Director: Isamu Hirabayashi<br /> Animation: Isamu Hirabayashi<br /> Music: Takashi Watanabe<br /> Sound Mix: Yusuke Toyoura<br /> Throat: Hideo Kusumi<br /> Voice: Midori Kurata<br /> Sound Design: Keitaro Iijima<br /> Foley Assistant: Momoko Iijima<br /> Art Director: Ken Murakami<br /> Animation Assistant: Mina Yonezawa<br /> Distributor: Tamaki Okamoto <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CaRTebLaNCheFilmsVideos/">CaRTe bLaNChe</a></p>
<p>Hidden deep within the Pony Pasture Park of Richmond, Virginia there lives a creature whose ancestors span back a half a billion years. In this short film discover how one species can survive in harsh habitats here and around the world.</p>
<p>We Will Live Again looks inside the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute. The film follows Ben Best and Andy Zawacki, the caretakers of 99 deceased human bodies stored at below freezing temperatures in cryopreservation. The Institute and Cryonics Movement were founded by Robert Ettinger who, in his nineties and long retired from running the facility, still self-publishes books on cryonics, awaiting the end of his life and eagerly anticipating the next.</p>