Science New Wave Festival V

The End of Time (2012)

Peter Mettler

<p>THE END OF TIME is a cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler which explores our perception of time.</p> <p>Visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again seeks to film the unfilmable on a journey that takes him to a particle accelerator in Switzerland and lava flows in Hawaii, disintegrating inner-city Detroit and a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha&rsquo;s enlightenment. Mettler dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday.</p>

The Present

Scott Thrift

<p>Ever wondered what particle accelerators, fireworks, New York City, m ss ng p eces, artistic independence, cabs, something, nothing, July 4th, the birth of the internet, collaborative capitalism, The Present, limitless possibility, the New World Trade Center have in common?</p>

23 Degrees, 5 Minutes

Darragh O’Connell

<p>An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity College in Dublin when he studied under the enigmatic Professor Orit, the professor who was driven to madness by his obsessive pursuit of the unified theory. Convinced that the answer somehow lay in the relationship between the numbers two, three and five, Professor Orit&rsquo;s obsession started the journey which has led his former student to the top of the world.</p>

Burt Talks to the Bees: Drone Bee

Isabella Rossellini

<p>In this fantastical and wildly educational short film created by Isabella Rossellini, Burt (or someone impersonating him) of Burt&#39;s Bees talks to the Drone Bee for an extraordinary look inside the hive. Bees need our help as they face Colony Collapse Disorder and other threats. Once you meet them, you&#39;ll want to help save them. Visit www.wildforbees.com to see how</p>

Hinterland

Linda McCarthy

<p>Small Birds Singing is besieged by plastic bottles. Where have they come from? Who is to blame? As Consomm&eacute; and Delphinium play croquet, Spandisman investigates&hellip;</p>

How to Draw Clouds

Salise Hughes

<p>A poetic meditation on the desire to make permanent what is ephemeral.</p>

Spectacular Science: The Lifecycle of a Mushroom

Tom Beg

<p>Presenting jazz bopping Mushrooms and belly-dancing Basidium! Spectacular Science is a collaborative project which aims to provide a wide audience with access to scientific knowledge and support the education of students in science subjects. The animation is inspired by 1920&prime;s animation such as the Silly Symphonies series and other early Walt Disney shorts.</p>

Pitch Drop Experiment

Pablo Melchor David Rybak

<p>The pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years.</p>

Stairs to No End

Daniella Koffler Eitan Shefer

<p>The stairs of knowledge leads to the light. A curious girl in a dark world tries to reach it, but must face those for who light is an obstacle.</p>

Whale Fall (After Life of a Whale)

Sharon Shattuck Flora Lichtman

<p>When a whale dies, the story has just begun.<br /> A video compliment to Radiolab&#39;s &#39;Loops&#39; episode, in collaboration with producer Lynn Levy [radiolab.org]<br /> sweetfernproductions.com<br /> &nbsp;</p>

The People Who Never Stop

Florian Piento

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The story of a crowd who never stop, for the best and the worst.</p>

Colors of Math

Ekaterina Eremenko

<p>To most people math appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world. Math can be sensual. Math can be tasted, it smells, it creates sound and color. One can touch it -&nbsp;and be touched by it...</p>

The Lesson

Ni Chen

<p>The Lesson is a period piece that takes place in World War II, where a passionate Chinese mathematician cannot cope with the reality of the war and finds his escape and refuge in his teaching. He hides in his work until reality finally knocks on his doorstep.</p>

25km2

Jana Minarikova

<p>An alchemist draws on the power of lightning to create splendid jewels.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

The Coffee Ring Effect

Kurtis Sensenig

<p>This never-before-seen footage from a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania&#39;s Department of Physics and Astronomy shows microscopic particles moving in a drop as it dries.</p> <p>Penn physicists have recently shown that simply changing particle shape can eliminate the ring-shaped stain that is left behind when drops of certain liquids dry. In this video microscopy footage from their experiments, watch as spherical particles get swept to the edges, while oblong particles are distributed consistently.</p> <p>Video and Music Composition by Kurtis Sensenig</p>

Data Dance

Sara Krugman Zubin Pastakia

<p>&ldquo;Not the ghost in the machine, but the body in the medium is the central dilemma of modern communications&hellip;&rdquo; &ndash; John Durham Peters</p> <p><strong>The World</strong> : In a possible near future, where quantifying of the self is taken to its logical extreme, every person has their own &ldquo;supermetric&rdquo;. This is an informatic that encompasses every possible data set related to one&rsquo;s life: financial, emotional, health, genetic makeup, carbon footprint, online influence ranking and so on are all included. Given the intertwining of vast amounts of both objective and what was once understood as subjective data within the supermetric, extreme and aggregated quantification has led&mdash;rather paradoxically&mdash;to near abstraction.</p> <p>Updated in real-time, the supermetric is a dynamic version of the self outside the self, a digibody. People have come to think of it as a metonym for one&rsquo;s &ldquo;total&rdquo; state of being. Your metric is you. This quantified self exists independently from the physical self and yet everything from friends, to employees, to spouses, to politicians are chosen based on it.<br /> Increasingly, however, there is a desire to physically experience the data world; to reintroduce in the ambiguities and ontological weirdness of everyday meatspace.<br /> The Ritual</p> <p>A peculiar communication ritual that has gained popularity in fringe areas of the city is that of experiencing another&rsquo;s &ldquo;true&rdquo; state via a transfer of the metric. It is a ritual that requires trust and commitment by both the people taking part. As the two data sets interact, the metric, the self of the other, is received and rejected, it fits, it doesn&rsquo;t fit, it flows and gets caught, it indulges, aches, delights and refuses. This interplay is experienced by one of the participants on the body via a fluctuating electric current. In its essence, the ritual is thought to be a method for noise-free communication.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

The Holy Chicken of Life and Music

NOMINT Christos Lefakis Yannis Konstantinidis

<p>The Holy Chicken, a magnificent beast, worshiped and exploited, in a tale of love and regret, art and science, Life and Music.</p>

Six Composite Acts

Julian Oliver

<p>Digital, sculptural interventions and performance, 2010</p>

Lamina

Christian Tschanz

<p>A vast expanse littered with stones, a mountain on the horizon. Amidst it all, an earthen figure constantly moving through various topographies and passing bogs, lakes, rivers and moss. In between, the portrait of a woman whose mouth is visited by bumble-bees, and that of a man, whose skin is first wet and then cracked.</p>

Magnetic Reconnection

Kyle Armstrong

<p>A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying manmade debris surrounding the Arctic Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba. The film touches on the regenerative power of nature and the futility of mankind&#39;s struggle against natural processes of decay. The film features an original score by Jim O&#39;Rourke, a voice-over by Will Oldham and likely some of the best footage of the aurora borealis ever captured.</p>

MicroScope

Minette Mangahas

<p>Filmed through a microscope, this piece superimposes footage from Anna May Wong&rsquo;s performance in the silent film &ldquo;Piccadilly&rdquo; (1929) unto a magnified strand of my hair.</p> <p>The film sampled is a scene from &ldquo;Piccadilly&rdquo; (1929). Anna May Wong plays a dishwasher in the London theater. The theater director, played by Charles Laughton, discovers her dancing in the scullery, fires her, and then later brings her to the stage.</p>

Peanut Man

Jack Truman

<p>The life of legendary innovator, scientist, teacher and inventor George Washington Carver, also known as the Peanut Man.</p> <p>One of the prominent Black scientists of the early 20th century. Dr. George Washington Carver has been largely known as &ldquo;The Peanut Man&rdquo; due to his involvement in seminal research of 325 uses for peanuts.</p> <p>He even experimented with peanut-based cosmetics, milk, paper, and even medicines. (To be honest, we&#39;d take peanut-flavored medicines any day!) It was this constant experimentation and innovation that gave him his famous nickname, &ldquo;The Peanut Man.&rdquo;</p> <ul> <li>&nbsp;</li> </ul>

Piattaforma Luna

Yuri Ancarani

<p>A group of six deep-sea divers, specializing in working at great depths, live for weeks between the bottom of the ocean and the hyperbaric chamber in an offshore job on the Luna platform.</p>

Re-Collection

Nicholas Kallincos

<p>The tale of a celebrated Entomologist who is being haunted by his insect collecting past.</p>

Resolution

Dave Fischer

<p>Resolution is a mesmerizing exploration of the electromagnetic spectrum, delving into the different wavelengths of light&mdash;from gamma rays to radio waves, ultraviolet to infrared, microwaves to the visible spectrum. Through striking visuals and a poetic narrative, the film reveals the unseen and prismatic beauty of light, highlighting the intricate dance between energy and color. It invites viewers to reconsider the world beyond human perception and appreciate the profound diversity of the spectrum that shapes our reality.</p>

Still Life (2000)

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<p>The race is on! Scientists vie to be the first to discover the real &quot;fountain of youth&quot; &ndash; to find a way to slow the process of aging, extending our life expectancy beyond any age anyone has ever lived. Research scientist Mary Bailey leads a team that is on the verge of making a discovery that will change life as we know it. All she needs is a little more money, and what better way to get that support than to take to the airwaves...On the eve of Mary&rsquo;s big NOVA interview, another team of research scientists make the same exact announcement. What&rsquo;s more, that team is piloted by none other than Mary&rsquo;s ex-husband, the scumbag of all scumbags, Dr. Ted Kenny-Cooper. Immediately after Ted&rsquo;s announcement, Mary&rsquo;s funding dries up. The timing of her ex&rsquo;s announcement is just too coincidental. Suspecting foul play, Mary takes matters into her own hands. Mary will employ every possible scheme, no matter how desperate, absurd, or unethical, to take Ted down and steal back the media spotlight for her project (and herself). What she doesn&rsquo;t realize is that her actions just might jeopardize the elusive fountain of youth.&nbsp;<em>Still Life</em>&nbsp;is a comedy of bad manners about the show business of science.</p>

aDiatomea

Markos Kay

<p>aDiatomea is an artificial life system that uses various methods and notions of a-life research. The basic principle of aDiatomea is that every aspect of it is entirely mathematically generated and thus it is not created purposefully as an art piece but as a complex system that takes a life of its own. These artificial organisms are based on actual unicellular organisms known as Diatoms. These beautiful microscopic creatures are constructed using the superformula, an equation that can reproduce organic forms. Granular sound is injected in these organisms, acting as their life-force, while they interact with each other and their environment. This film shows a recording of 36 seconds of evolution in 5 different colonies of artificial diatoms, pushing the boundaries of complex computer calculations.</p>

Don't Swim After Lunch

Jens Blank

<p>DASL is a take on turning mundane environments into nature habitats, re populating them with life. The human presence in the film is a spin on how our interaction with the environment can have quite dramatic effects.</p>

Evolution (2012)

Eskil Waldenstrøm

<p>&lsquo;Evolution&rsquo; is a short movie about the micro universe that is perceived through the eyes of a microscopist. The movie is especially constructed to emphasize the beauty of microscopy through organic audio-visual effects.</p> <p>The journey starts by the full three dimensional reconstruction of the fruit fly and zebra-fish and from there we sequentially dive further down into cellular resolution to animated reconstruction of the DNA. Every step of the way from whole animal down to the DNA structure is beautifully reconstructed through sophisticated microscopy techniques. To fully enjoy this audio-visual microscopic travel, &lsquo;pump up the volume&rsquo;.</p>

Slow Derek

Dan Ojari

<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he struggles with the true speed of planet earth.</span></span></span></p>

Organopolis

Luis Nieto

<p>Organopolis takes a humorous look at the physical and emotional journey affecting young pupil&rsquo;s everyday life through the reactions of their body organs.</p>

Teen Brain

Brad Goodspeed

<p>A humorous and informative trip through the maturing mind.</p>

Voltage

Filippe Lyra William Paiva

<p>Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.<br /> Directed and Writing:&nbsp;Filippe&nbsp;Lyra&nbsp;e William Paiva<br /> Animation:&nbsp;Filippe&nbsp;Lyra, William Paiva, Marcio Vieira,&nbsp;Felipe&nbsp;Soares, Leo D., Tony Farias<br /> Coloring:&nbsp;Filippe&nbsp;Lyra, Marcio Vieira,&nbsp;Felipe&nbsp;Soares, William Paiva, Natalia Franca<br /> Post-Production: William Paiva,&nbsp;Filippe&nbsp;Lyra&nbsp;e Leo D.<br /> Executive Production: Izabella Barros Melo<br /> Production Assistant: Edgar Melo<br /> Editing: William Paiva, Leo D.,&nbsp;Filippe&nbsp;Lyra<br /> Music and Sound Edition: William Paiva e Leo D.</p>

People of a Feather

Joel Heath

<p>Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada&#39;s Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eiderdown, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Traditional life is juxtaposed with modern challenges as both Inuit and eiders confront changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering New York and eastern North America. Inspired by Inuit ingenuity and the technology of a simple feather, the film is a call to action to implement energy solutions that work with nature.</p>

Stop or Go: With Doctor Norton Zinder

NetScience

<p>After joining the faculty of The Rockefeller University in 1952, Zinder and Tim Loeb, his first student, isolated bacteriophages that could grow only on strains carrying the F (fertility) factor responsible for bacterial sex. Thus was the first phage with an RNA genome (f2) identified. Access to large quantities of a homogeneous RNA opened the door to many fundamental questions, which Norton and his students attacked with vigor. Always there were mutants&mdash;and, once they knew that the genome was the message, biochemistry&mdash;that revealed the nature of nonsense suppressors and how protein synthesis initiates and terminates. In the late 1960s, a NOVA television program, &ldquo;Stop or Go,&rdquo; explained some of these discoveries. Norton and his lab members reenacted their search for conditional-lethal f2 mutants, their elation at finding them, and the experiments that led them to suppressor tRNAs, the n-formyl methionine that initiates protein synthesis, and translation stop codons.</p>

Micro Empire

Clemens Wirth

<p>&hellip;moving on from the Macro Kingdom, we pass through the portal of a microscope to venture into the Micro Empire &hellip; surrounding us &hellip; inhabiting us &hellip;<br /> Stranger than fiction&hellip; molecular conflict and mitochondrial warfare &hellip; a heart-stopping, subcellular epic &hellip; a truly microcinematic experience &hellip;</p> <p><a href="http://www.clemenswirth.com" target="_blank">www.clemenswirth.com</a></p>

America's Dead Sea

Jim Lo Scalzo

<p>Deep in the desert of southern California sits one of the worst environmental sites in America&mdash;a former tourist destination that has turned into a toxic soup: the Salton Sea.</p> <p>The sea was born by accident 100 years ago, when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal; for the next two years the entire volume of the river flowed into the Salton Sink, one of the lowest places on Earth. The new lake became a major tourist attraction, with resort towns springing up along its shores. Yet with no outflow, and with agricultural runoff serving as its only inflow, the sea&rsquo;s waters grew increasingly toxic. Farm chemicals and ever-increasing salinity caused massive fish and bird die-offs. Use of the sea for recreational activities plummeted, and by the 1980s its tourist towns were all but abandoned.</p> <p>The skeletons of these structures are still there; ghost towns encrusted in salt. California officials acknowledge that if billions of dollars are not spent to save it, the sea could shrink another 60 percent in the next 20 years, exposing soil contaminated with arsenic and other cancerous chemicals to strong winds. Should that dust become airborne, it would blow across much of southern California, creating an environmental calamity.</p>

Blood Film (2015)

Mari Walker Lara Salmon

<p>A short film painted with Lara Salmon&#39;s and Mari Walker&#39;s blood.</p>

Brainy

Daniel Joseph Borgman

<p>An imaginative boy copes with the loss of his grandfather by constructing a fantastic series of rituals.</p>

Combustion (2012)

Renaud Hall̩e

<p>A brisk and novel look at fire, a source of fascination for everyone everywhere since the beginning of time. Fire used as a visual and musical tool.</p>

Dinosaur Eggs in the Living Room

Rafael Urban

<p>An old woman attends classes of digital photography and editing. It is not a late hobby, but a project undertaken with a clear aim in mind. The woman wants to be able to preserve the memory of her deceased husband Guido, the biggest private collector of fossils in Latin America.</p> <p>&ldquo;Dinosaur Eggs in the Living Room is a gripping story about love, fidelity, ageing and loss &ndash; themes which are generally so difficult to honour within the constriction of short film. In this documentary, the distinction between the filmmaker and the subject of his film is a delicious mystery. An extraordinary woman creates a portrait of her extraordinary man and the life they shared, through thick and thin, across many lands and many decades.&rdquo;</p>

Dying Without A Sound

Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau

<p>Through the experience of the death of three acquaintances, a young woman makes connections with her own life and expresses her views on death.</p>

Lazarov

Nieto

<p>Refusing to accept the decline of the USSR, a handful of Russian scientists working secretly to resurrect the Soviet power. Here are some new images of the mysterious program Lazarov.</p>

Move (2011)

John Graham

<p>Move depicts the surreal dream life of a young comatose man, and how it attempts to guide him to consciousness. Although he seems to be disconnected from life, his interior self echoes symbols of caring from the outer conscious world. Even after he appears to awaken, his imagination presents more ambiguity.</p>

Restoring Sight in Bangladesh

Tatiana McCabe

<p>Tatiana McCabe&rsquo;s mixed media video, titled Restoring Sight in Bangladesh (2012) uses documentary footage, motion graphics and stop motion animation to explore the issue of cataract blindness in Bangladesh. McCabe&rsquo;s interest in socially conscious filmmaking comes to life through her writing, cinematography and playful animations, which clearly explain her journalistic findings. The purpose of this film is to educate viewers about what cataracts are, why they are so problematic in developing countries and highlight the steps, which if taken, can help eradicate cataract blindness in the future.</p>

Resuscitation

Meghdad Asadi Lari

<p>Help them live more!</p>

Snow (2012)

Isaac Ergas

<p>When the great cholera outbreak of 1854 sends London spinning out of control, Dr. John Snow must stand up to the city&rsquo;s most powerful players in exposing the ugly truth about London&rsquo;s water supply.</p>

Una Furtiva Lagrima

Carlo Vogele

<p>The last journey of a fish as it sings its own requiem, from its sale at the fish market all the way into the frying pan.</p>

abNormal

Barry J. Gibb

<p>Are you normal? What does it mean to be normal? Is it a good thing, or does it mean you&#39;re just plain dull? Is being abnormal more fun, does it make us seem more kooky, quirky, individual - or could it mean we&#39;re cut off from society, perceived as odd or even mentally ill? abNormal explores and celebrates what it means to be normal. Looking through the eyes of several very different minds, with their own unique talents and perspectives, the film points a microscope at human behaviour, asking viewers to question their perceptions of others and even of themselves. And, as society grows ever more into a disconnected suburban sprawl, abNormal asks whether the way we live our lives threatens our mental health.</p>

Everything Is A Remix - System Failure

Kirby Ferguson

<p>Our system of law doesn&rsquo;t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren&rsquo;t so tidy. They&rsquo;re layered, they&rsquo;re interwoven, they&rsquo;re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality&hellip; the system starts to fail.</p>

Love, Hate and Everything in Between

Alex Gabbay

<p>Can empathy resolve issues of aggression and subjugation, where wars, politics and economic sanctions have failed?</p> <p>Man&rsquo;s capacity for kindness and compassion is overshadowed only by his ability to be as cruel and destructive. Can empathy resolve issues of aggression and subjugation, where wars, politics and economic sanctions have failed? Love Hate and Everything in Between looks into the world of neuroscience, psychology, education and technology to explore the extraordinary relevance of empathy in today&rsquo;s increasingly interconnected world.</p> <p>Watch Alex Gabbay&#39;s other films at:&nbsp;<a href="http://monkeyandmefilms.vhx.tv/" target="_blank">http://monkeyandmefilms.vhx.tv</a></p> <p><em>The Price of Fairness | 77 mins</em></p> <p>Why do we accept huge levels of inequality and social injustice? This is one of the central questions that The Price of Fairness sets out to answer.&nbsp;From the caste-biased villages of India to the race-sensitive streets of Ferguson, Missouri, this documentary explores our understanding of fairness and what it takes to change an unfair system.</p> <p><em>Just Trial and Error | 63 mins</em></p> <p>Perhaps no aspect of the mind is more familiar or more puzzling than consciousness &ndash; it is something that has defied definition. Yet our conscious experience of self and the world is what shapes us and our history</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Gattaca

Andrew Niccol

<p>Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) has always fantasized about traveling into outer space, but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior &quot;in-valid.&quot; He decides to fight his fate by purchasing the genes of Jerome Morrow (Jude Law), a laboratory-engineered &quot;valid.&quot; He assumes Jerome&#39;s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene (Uma Thurman). An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer (Gore Vidal) complicates Vincent&#39;s plans.</p>

Compressed 03

Kim Pimmel

<p>A supernova explodes from the darkness, sending shockwaves through the cosmos. The matter spreads and begins to clump, eventually forming planetary bodies. Shot using ferrofluid and magnets.</p>

The Worlds of Dr. Vishniac

Donald F. Hornig

<p>In addition to the candid photography for which he is best known, Vishniac worked heavily in the field of photomicroscopy,&nbsp;and cinemicroscopy. He specialized in photographing living insects and had a talent for arranging the moving specimens in &ldquo;just the right poses&rdquo;, according to, former president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. On the subject of Vishniac&rsquo;s skill in photomicroscopy, Halsman said he was, &ldquo;a special kind of genius&rdquo;.&nbsp;He worked with all sorts of specimens, from, to&nbsp;Vishniac&rsquo;s work in photomicroscopy was, and is, highly regarded in the field. For three consecutive years, beginning in 1952, he won the Best-of-the-Show Award of the</p> <p>One of Roman Vishniac&rsquo;s most famous endeavors in the field of photomicroscopy was his revolutionary photographs from the inside of a firefly&rsquo;s eye, behind 4,600 tiny, complexly arranged. In addition, there were the images taken at the medical school of&nbsp;Boston University of the circulating blood inside a cheek pouch. Vishniac invented new methods for light-interruption photography and color photomicroscopy.&nbsp;His method of colorization, (developed in the 1960s and early 1970s) uses&nbsp;polarized light&nbsp;to penetrate certain formations of&nbsp;cell structure&nbsp;and may greatly improve the detail of an image.</p> <p>In the field of biology, Vishniac specialized in marine microbiology, the physiology of ciliates, circulatory systems in unicellular plants and endocrinology (from his work in Berlin) and metamorphosis. Despite his aptitude and accomplishments in the field, most of his work in biology was secondary to his photography: Vishniac studied the anatomy of an organism primarily to better photograph it. Besides experimenting with the metamorphosis of axolotl, he also researched the morphology of chromosomes in 1920: both in Berlin. As a biologist and philosopher in 1950, he hypothesized polyphyletic origin, a theory that life arose from multiple, independent biochemical reactions, spawning multicellular life. As a philosopher, he &ldquo;developed principles of rationalistic philosophy&rdquo; in the &rsquo;50s.</p> <p>Horizons of Science, Vol 1., No 2</p>

Periodic Table Table

Kirk Zamieroski Adam Dylewski

<p>Some people collect stamps. Wolfram Research co-founder and author Theo Gray collects elements. Step into his office, and you&rsquo;ll see a silicon disc engraved with Homer Simpson, a jar of mercury, uranium shells and thousands of other chemical artifacts. But his real DIY masterpiece is the world&rsquo;s first &ldquo;periodic table table.&rdquo; Within this masterfully constructed table-top lay samples of nearly every element known to man, minus the super-radioactive ones.</p>

X Inactivation and Epigenetics

Drew Berry Etsuko Uno

<p>X inactivation is a vital process that occurs in all DNA-containing cells of the female body. It is also an important research model and tool for studying epigenetics. Epigenetics refers to processes that tell our cells how, and when, to read the DNA blueprint. The epigenetic regulation of DNA is critical in both normal development and disease.</p> <p>X inactivation is a type of gene dosage compensation.</p> <p>In humans, the sex chromosomes X and Y determine the sex of an individual - females have two X chromosomes (XX), males have one X and one Y chromosome (XY). All of the genes on the Y chromosome are required in male development, while the genes on the X chromosome are needed for both male and female development.</p> <p>Because females receive two X chromosomes, they inherit two copies of many of the genes that are needed for normal function. Extra copies of genes or chromosomes can affect normal development. An example is Down&#39;s syndrome, which is caused by an extra copy of part or all of chromosome 21.</p> <p>In female mammals, a process called X inactivation has evolved to compensate for the extra X chromosome. In X inactivation, each cell &#39;switches off&#39; one of its X chromosomes, chosen at random, to ensure the correct number of genes are expressed, and to prevent abnormal development.</p>

Flutter (2012)

Dara Bratt

<p>There are over 18,000 different types of butterflies in the world. John only has 4,641. &quot;Flutter&quot; is a short observational documentary profiling John Bedford, a 76-year-old amateur butterfly collector. Extending beyond the exotic and gorgeous butterflies, this is the reflective and meditative portrait of a lonely man seeking companionship in the arms of nature.</p>

Insane in the Chromatophores

Gregory Gage

<p>During experiments on the axons of the longfin squid in Woods Hole, we were taken in by the beauty of the fast changing color of the skin. The squid&#39;s skin contains many colorful light-reflecting cells called chromatophores. We wanted to try to stimulate the fin nerve directly from our iPod. The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the squid&#39;s fin. We used a suction electrode to stimulate the fin nerve.</p>

Discovering Mount Gorongosa

Federico Pardo

<p>Biodiversity Exploration on Mozambique&#39;s Sky Island In August 2011, Field Museum and African scientists joined forces in an expedition to Mount Gorongosa in Gorongosa National Park. Their goal was to study the diversity of birds and small mammals from this remote region and the parasites that live on these animals. The findings of this project will help to better understand this threatened ecosystem and formulate new questions regarding pathogens and their hosts.</p>

Legs-atavism

Mikhail Mestetskiy

<p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">A film crew tries to reveal the secrets of one of the wildest branches of experimental medicine.</span></span></p>

Microscopic Opera

Matthijs Munnik

<p>In &quot;Microscopic Opera&quot; (2011) by Matthijs Munnik, an audiovisual installation, tiny nematodes &lsquo;C. elegans&rsquo; perform an opera under microscopes.</p> <p>In&nbsp;<em>Microscopic Opera</em>, the tiny nematodes&nbsp;<em>C. elegans</em>&nbsp;perform an abstract opera under a microscope.</p> <p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m looking at&nbsp; common scientific research tools from an artistic and theatrical perspective to discover new qualities. In this installation the movement of the worms is translated into sound in real time. For this project I used worms that each have a mutation that makes them move in a different way. This is often used by researchers to easily identify these worms under the microscope, but in&nbsp;<em>Microscopic Opera</em>&nbsp;the different movements of the mutants will produce different sounds, enabling them to perform an abstract opera piece together. You can see the worms moving in real time on big screens behind the microscope set up.&rdquo;</p> <p>The installation won the Designers &amp; Artists 4 Genomics Award 2010.</p>

Lord Cry Cry – Blind Lightnin’ Floor

Francis Kamprath

<p>For his new track &ldquo;Blind Lightnin&rsquo; Floor&rdquo; Lord Cry Cry ordered a special band to perform live on stage.</p>

The Afronauts

Cristina De Middel

<p>In 1964&nbsp; a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka&nbsp; decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an alluminium rocket to put a woman, two cats and a missionary into Space. First the moon, then Mars, using a catapult system. He founded the Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Astronomical Research to start training his Afronauts in his headquarters located only 20 miles from Lusaka.</p> <p>In 1964, still living the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first African on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race.</p> <p>Only a few optimists supported the project by Edward Makuka, the school teacher in charge of presenting the ambitious program and getting its necessary funding. But the financial aid never came, as the United Nations declined their support, and one of the astronauts, a 16 year old girl, got pregnant and had to quit.</p> <p>That is how the heroic initiative turned into an exotic episode of the african history, surrounded by wars, violence, droughts and hunger.</p> <p>The Afronauts is a featured multimedia piece on DEVELOP Tube. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features multimedia, interviews, lectures &amp; films about photojournalism, documentary &amp; fine art photography.&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/developphoto">DEVELOP Tube: Photography to Watch</a></p> <p>From Cristina: As a photojournalist I have always been attracted by the eccentric lines of story-telling avoiding the same old subjects told in the same old ways.</p> <p>Now, with my personal projects, I respect the basis of the truth but allow myself to break the rules of veracity trying to push the audience into analyzing the patterns of the stories we consume as real.</p> <p>&ldquo;Afronauts&rdquo; is based on the documentation of an impossible dream that only lives in the pictures. I started from a real fact that took place 50 years ago and rebuilt the documents adapting them to my personal imagery.</p> <p><a href="http://www.lademiddel.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lademiddel.com/</a></p> <p>De Middel&#39;s personal and professional work for newspapers and NGOs has been recognized by the National Photojournalism Prize Juan Cancelo (2009), Fnac Photographic Talent (2009) and the Humble Arts Women in Photography Project Grant (2011). She has an MA in fine arts from University of Valencia, Spain (2001), an MA in photography from University of Oklahoma (2000) and a postgraduate degree in photojournalism from Universitat Polit&eacute;cnica de Barcelona, Spain (2002).</p>

Beyond Expression Bright

Erin Espelie

<p>Our imagination is equally confounded, said the 18th-century Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet (best known for his work on visual hallucinations), by the infinitely great as by the infinitely small. Confounding, too, can be the instruments and empirical mechanisms we have to gauge the immensity, particularly their seemingly insurmountable limitations.&mdash;E.E.</p>

Beyond the Spheres

Meghdad Asadi Lari

<p>Space voices, what we can&#39;t hear, what we can&#39;t see.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>This film is a marriage of art and science. Not only the concept is based on science, but also the progress of producing the film is based on some technical and mathematical approaches. The wave features of recorded audios of Saturn and Jupiter has been extracted and fed into some mathematical formulas to control the visual components of particles to create a compelling and unique film that is both an aesthetic and scientific experience.</p>

El Cosmonauta (The Cosmonaut)

Nicolas Alcalá

<p>Stas, a cosmonaut, becomes lost in space, and when he comes back, the world is empty.</p> <p>In 1967, two young friends, Stas and Andrei, arrive to the newly built&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_City,_Russia" title="Star City, Russia">Star City</a>&nbsp;(near&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>) where the first&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonauts" title="Cosmonauts">cosmonauts</a>&nbsp;trained to go into space, and where a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">race</a>&nbsp;against the clock to beat the Americans into space takes place.</p> <p>Stas and Andrei will witness first-hand the political plots, the fights for power and the successes and failures of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>&nbsp;in some of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. They will meet Yulia, a communications technician, with whom they will strike up a strong friendship, always close to love but never consummated.</p>

Into Deep Space

Anne Milne Alberto Iordanov

<p>This film looks at the question of life outside of the solar system, focussing on the work of Dr Duncan Forgan &mdash; a theoretical astronomer from the University of Edinburgh &mdash; and Grant Miller, an observational astronomer based at the University of St Andrews. Grant uses the James Gregory Telescope in St Andrews to study exoplanets and part of Duncan&rsquo;s work involves theoretical calculations and computer simulations &mdash; incorporating the latest exoplanet data &mdash; to improve our understanding of how and where we might expect to see life appearing in the Galaxy.<br /> &nbsp;</p>

No Gravity

Silvia Casalino

<p>I have always wanted to explore inaccessible and dangerous places. As a child, I dreamed of going to space. I often heard that it was a man&#39;s job, that I shouldn&#39;t dream. I refused this determinism, became an aerospace engineer, built rockets, applied to be an astronaut, started training, and was rejected.</p>

Welcome to the Machine

Avi Zev Weider

<p>Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, &ldquo;Welcome To The Machine&rdquo; takes the conversation away from the business of technology or the latest gadgets and leads the audience to ultimately consider questions of life and death, revealing that all discussions about technology are really about what it means to be human.</p>

Humanoids

Mariana Oliva

<p>NAO is a loveable little robot, who can recognise your face, answer your questions and satisfy your desire for a good kick around&hellip; as the numbers of service robots explode globally, at the University of Edinburgh&rsquo;s Department of Informatics they&rsquo;re hoping to perfect the robotic footballer.</p> <p>An Edinburgh College of Art Production</p>

Amygdala (2012)

Jen DePlour

<p>Amygdala is a stop motion short in a surrealistic style utilizing puppet, object, and clay animation to explore notions of the cast aside, and unattainable emotional and intellectual states.&nbsp;</p>

Anosmia (2012)

Jacob LaMendola

<p>A visual and lyrical portrait about people with the rare condition that renders them unable to smell.</p>

How To Eat Your Own (Chocolate) Brain!

Andy Millns

<p>Putting our technical and culinary skills to the test, we challenged our 3D printing team to turn a high-tech MRI scan into a delicious, if slightly macabre, chocolate treat!</p> <p>Production Credits: Producer -&nbsp;Andy&nbsp;Millns<br /> Director -&nbsp;Andy&nbsp;Millns<br /> Editor - Lee Spooner<br /> Cameraman - Peter Collis<br /> Technical Consultant - Robert Jeffries<br /> 3D Print technicians - Paul Armand and Henry Challis<br /> Soundtrack - &#39;Chocolate Rain&#39; by Tay Zonday</p> <p>Director&#39;s Bio:&nbsp;Andy&nbsp;Millns&nbsp;/ Co-founder &amp; Creative Director<br /> <br /> Andy&nbsp;has over 15 years experience as a creative technologist specialising in stereoscopic film and interactive 3D production.<br /> <br /> Andy&nbsp;is a founder member of Inition (formed in 2001) where he has produced a wide range of stereoscopic and real-time 3D projects embracing emerging technologies including virtual and augmented reality, gestural and other novel interfaces, large screen visualisation, haptics, tracking, 3D printing and scanning.<br /> <br /> Andy&nbsp;is also one of the UK&#39;s leading experts in stereoscopic 3D filming with experience across a diverse range of genres spanning music, fashion, sport, wildlife, commercials, CGI and live multi-camera broadcast to cinema and TV.</p>

The Centrifuge Brain Project

Till Nowak

<p>The &quot;Centrifuge Brain Project&quot; gives an insight on scientific experiments with amusement park rides.&nbsp;</p> <p>Based on his childhood fascination for the strange atmosphere of amusement parks Till Nowak created the fictional documentary &#39;The Centrifuge Brain Project&#39;. He collected footage and used digital animation to create a series of non-existing thrill rides. Dr. Laslowicz is convinced: Making his machines more powerful brings him comes closer to the solution for all our problems. An obvious mistake or just typical human?</p>

In Dreams (2011)

Samuel Blain

<p>In Dreams is an experimental documentary that visualises the dreams of ordinary individuals. I asked 4 people to discuss their most vivid, memorable dream. The film is my final year graduation film from Northumbria University.</p> <p>In Dreams is a profound and experimental documentary focusing on the weirdest and most vivid dreams of normal individuals. After numerous interviews, five of the most imaginative and outstanding interviews were selected for the documentary. The film is a combination of live action and computer-generated imagery, replacing each actors face with a representation of their mind.</p>

Limbic (2012)

Manfred Borsch

<p>&quot;limbic&quot; is a Visual Music clip which reflects the emotional processing of music in the limbic system and the resulting reactions of the body (the so-called &quot;chills&quot;). It has been proved that musical attributes like the violation of expectations, the beginning of something new, a new cue or a recurring pattern are more often leading to chills. Those can be expressed, among other things, through a higher heart rate, twitching facial muscles, sweaty hands or even the well-known goose bumps. The film discusses how far chill-experiences are part of the evolutionary and/or the cultural development.</p>

The Love Competition

Brent Hoff

<p><span style="font-size:18px">Because &ldquo;Love is a feeling you have for someone you have feelings about.&rdquo; In order to find out if it&rsquo;s possible for one person to love more than another Brent Hoff teamed up with neuroscientists at Stanford University to test seven contestants&rsquo; ability to love using an fMRI to monitor brain activity while the contestants focused on loving thoughts.</span></p>

Soft Sciences

Ben Fries

<p>You have beautiful eyes.</p> <p>Why is this?</p>

I Do Not Know Who I Am

Constantine Konovalov

<p>The Story of Mr. Plasticine</p> <p><strong>Constantine Konovalov &amp; Irina Neustroeva</strong>: (CA Teeter-totter-tam Animation)</p> <p>We are a team of animators from Russia. We love to experiment in the field of animation and video art. We create commercials, cartoons, movies, mainly using the technique of stop-motion and an interval shooting (timelapse). And we love to shoot time lapse of our city Moscow. We are interested in the development direction of stop-motion in Russia. We frequently conducts master classes of stop-motion animation for children and adults.</p> <p>Our stop-motion movies and video art, including &ldquo;Moscow city of animation&rdquo;, &ldquo;Teeter-Totter-Tam&rdquo;, &ldquo;Idea Creation&rdquo;, &ldquo;Inflation of animation&rdquo;, &ldquo;DRINKme-EATme-READme&rdquo;, have been screened and awarded at festivals worldwide.</p>

The Human Factor

Thibault Le Texier

<p>&quot;What is good for the factory&nbsp;is good for the family&quot;</p> <p>With Todd Sells and Kate Moran.</p> <p>Best first movie prize, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Films festival (2012)</p> <p>For more info on film, press kit, selections, distinctions, visit <a href=".: letexier.org/article.php3?id_article=95">letexier.org</a></p> <p>Film also available for streeming <a href="http://vimeo.com/letexier/the-human-factor">here</a></p>