Playlist
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
Young Indian girl Naiá falls in love with the moon after listening to the story on how the stars in the sky came to be. Based on an indigenous legend from the Amazon Rainforest.
An old man takes his grandson to witness a solar eclipse in this gorgeously rendered view of life in a small town in India.
Mr. Pathak is a retired civil engineer and lives in Taregna, a small town in India. He is worn out by life's many setbacks and is indifferent to his family – Laxmi, his daughter-in-law andRoshan, his 8-year old grandson.
The announcement by NASA that the best place to watch an upcoming solar eclipse will be Taregna, has no impact on Pathak. However, Roshan's curiosity for the celestial event of a lifetime is boundless. When Pathak finally realizes that Roshan desperately needs a father figure, he can no longer remain a bystander to life.
An experimental piece weaving images of the Cassini mission and music.
Failed astronomer Theo meets struggling student Miles in this introspective look at the big picture and why giving up is never an option.
Picture Perfect travels with photographer Vincent Fournier (whose work has been compared to the style of Jeff Wall and Stanley Kubrick) to the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the penultimate space shuttle launch.
NASA released footage of The Space Shuttle Endeavour's final launch from 4 cameras connected to the solid state rocket boosters. I thought it would be interesting to sync up the shots and play them side by side. This video is the result of that.
Spacefaring outlines the true story of the high tech Indian Space Program against the backdrop of a rural village that appears to be suspended in time. In the near future will we be able to create sustainable colonies on other planets, or will we make the same mistakes as here on earth? What can we learn from history and tradition? This short film combines documentary field footage with CGI animation, creating a journey full of subtle details that make this world as unique as India itself.
After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha 46, the cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with an extraordinary paradox. Unlocked from the mothership, Yuri begins his startling journey through space, which leads him to the end of the world as we know it. An amazing 15-minute short movie-the countdown is on.
A whole new science. Using a subatomic resonance engine we generate an electromagnetic field capable of interfering with the space around us.
A vision of the four layers of the (in)visible membrane: already existing skin bacteria, a communication layer, a slime mould and plants, and how theoretically this clothing could transmute into different forms, colours and functions related to environmental changes.
A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past.
Let me show you my world of the synthetic future. A fluorescent animated slideshow of reverie, which depicts a future with glowing trees, a cure for HIV, biological spaceships, and organ harvest.
The Thorium Dream explores the growing grassroots movement in the United States behind the element thorium, and the powerful forces that could keep it buried in the dustbin of history. After the Fukushima disaster, nuclear energy faces it's biggest questions in decades. But a ragtag band of Internet enthusiasts is on a mission to spread their answer: more nuclear power than Walt Disney could have dreamed up, green enough to save the climate (the energy secretary and NASA's chief climate scientist are curious) and safe enough that if you walked away from the reactor it would calmly turn itself off. There's just one problem: the idea was already killed by the government forty years ago. Bringing it back won't be easy. But some are staking their whole livelihoods on it. That's just what life's like with the thorium dream.
The Man Machine features some of the latest robot technology interacting with humans and the built environment.
When Stillman discovers the secrets to time travel, his big discovery gets lost in the smallest details.
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Winner of the 2011 Webby Award for Animation in the Online Film & Video Category, this short film takes us to the wonderful world of nano.
"Denmark" takes place above and below the waterline of Oregon's Willamette River. It's a story about Pily, a lovable crustacean of mixed origin, who builds a rocket ship to escape the contagion of his underwater crops and home.
How do scientists imagine reality from elements that seem minute and unreadable? The archaeozoologist: their specialty is studying animal remains to understand their relationship with humans!
After a decade of famine and food riots, the Mendelian Corporation feeds (and controls) the world through its genetically modified seeds. Twelve-year old Juan is a member of the Sprouts-the Mendelian corporate youth program in which young boys are trained to be the eyes and ears of local authorities. When Juan inadvertently discovers that his father Mateo is involved in a local seed-running ring, he is forced to decide just how far his commitment goes to the Sprouts motto "Duty First".
At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott (performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass. Mission Controller Joe Allen described the demonstration in the "Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report":
The path of true love never did run smooth - especially if you're a milk bottle. Follow these star-crossed lovers from factory to fridge and beyond.
When I Am 18 is an animated short film featuring the drawings and voices of sisters Maja, 8, and Lily, 5, from the UK.
A problem that all living things have - how long and thin DNA is, and how easy it would be to get it all tangled.
A follow up refraction experiment featuring the Alphabet spoken by the late GREAT Richard Pryor.
Willem is 5 years old and has a lot on his mind! Take a quick journey through the eyes of a child as Willem explains why people should stop whaling.
Don't blink when we screen this film or you'll miss the elegant dinosaur pas de deux
Here is a little plant that starts its life high up in the tree tops, where it can find more light than the dark understory of the rainforest. As it grows though, soon getting enough water becomes limiting factor, and the plant will drop a shoot to the ground.
One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep and decides to take it home - even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!
The world food system is extremely complex. Trying to comprehend how farmers in Africa are impacted by decisions we make at the grocery store in the west - and the whims of commodities traders in Chicago - can hurt the brain.
Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.
A computer virus falls in love while carrying out its mission of destruction. What really goes on inside a computer? Is it all endless routine and method? In the sterile world of bytes, buffers and bandwidth a lonely virus discovers love, but soon finds out that love isn't exactly within permitted parameters.
Wallace is a comedy about a boy who falls in love with the most beautiful theory of evolution-but she was already with another man.
This film explores an entomologist's research into the relationships between the genes, receptors, pheromones, behaviors, evolution, and ecology of moths and other insects.
JoEllen Marsh searches for the man who donated the sperm her mother used to have her.
A mix of everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.
E. chromi is a collaboration between designers and scientists in the new field of synthetic biology. In 2009, seven Cambridge University undergraduates spent the summer genetically engineering bacteria to secrete a variety of colored pigments, visible to the naked eye. They designed standardized sequences of DNA, known as BioBricks, and inserted them into escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria.
Students at UW Madison spend their summer in the wetlab preparing for the 2010 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition.
Blank reproduces the sterile conditions of a genetic laboratory of molecular medicine. The room, the bodies and cells of the animals are subject to the strictest controls; everything has been created specially.
In the film you will pass through a six-minute animal behavoir experimental setup and participate on different levels. This experimental short-film reconstructs from an artistic perspective an experiment in which mice with Alzheimer's disease fail – even after repeated training – to remember where the island is concealed under the surface of the white water in a white tub. They are used to test whether new substances can repair the defects in the brain.
The Birth of a Flower is a very early example of time-lapse photography and one of the first films ever made, exploring a variety of plants as they burst into bloom.
We follow this colorful parade as the ants traverse the forest and enter their underground colony. They descend through a labyrinth of tunnels to the heart of their colony where they lay their offerings at the feet of their idol – a golden ant.
We Rule is from "The Leafcutters" series – a project that includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture. It was filmed at Liquid Jungle Lab, a biological research station on Isla Canales de Tierra off the Pacific coast of Panama. The soundtrack was created from wildlife recorded on location: howler monkeys, parrots, toucans, insects and an agouti.
The piece portrays these industrious creatures as agriculturalists, living in large societies, maintained through complex systems of communication, and personifying what are predominantly thought of as behaviors and character traits solely expressed by humans.
The City and the Self is a study of human relations in the city, based on psychological concepts formulated by Stanley Milgram. The City and the Self examines city dwellers' perceptions of their city and their behavior in created situations.
This compelling film, combining both art film and documentary techniques, evolved out of the landmark Science magazine article Milgram wrote in 1970 that established the field of urban psychology. In the film, Milgram introduces the concepts of urban overload and selective attention, and delves into the researchof social psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane, who studied New York City in the aftermath of theshocking murder of Kitty Genovese.
This film is distributed by Alexander Street, a ProQuest company, and all 6 of his films are available for purchase on their website, or by emailing orders@proquest.com.
An overview of the human mammary gland with a focus on the role of breast stem cells during pregnancy.
In just 4 minutes a group of scientists (active in the fields of protein motion and visual representation of cell biology) will lead you on a journey to discover an entire new world: a human cell.
The world's oldest carrion beetle fossils were found in China and represent species that were alive 165 million years ago. Follow Margaret Thayer and Chenyang Cai as they work together at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago to yield new insights into this family of beetles, called Silphidae.
It's clear, if you think about it very carefully, that it would be impossible to breed a goat that had spider silk protein in it. There's no way that mutation would occur under any natural circumstance, no matter how you bred them. Randy Lewis, a professor at University of Wyoming has done otherwise; designed goats that can be used in spinning spider silk.
Enter into the ultra-adventurous world of pilot-biologists chasing wild birds in the no-man's-land north of the arctic circle. Their world is one of beauty and grit, humor and science. The tundra swans they study are magnificent creatures, traveling to both sides of the straight of Beringia, the thin stretch of water that separates Alaska from Russia. This east-west connection is what endangers the birds, and potentially, the humans that interact with them.
In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance.
Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and trigger dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world's most efficient energy resource - the sun. Whilst not providing definitive answers this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking.
This project was developed at the Royal College of Art during my MA studies in Design Products on Platform 13.
We reinterpret the Christmas tree and its role as the traditional focal point for a communal space. "Mobile Mobile" is a six metre circumference interactive sculpture, and signature piece for the entrance of the Lost Boys London Brick Lane studio.
Four Letter Words consists of four units, each capable of displaying all 26 letters of the alphabet with an arrangement of fluorescent lights. The piece displays an algorithmically generated word sequence, derived from a word association database developed by the University of South Florida between 1976 and 1998. The algorithms take into account word meaning, rhyme, letter sequencing, and association.
The Sixth Obstruction inspired by The Perfect Human by Jorgen Leth and based on The Five Obstructions by Lars Von Trier. What does it mean to be perfect, as one is about to enter life.
Two children begin a journey to see the stars with their sick grandfather, wondering if he will smile one last time. When a number of obstacles present themselves, the children realize that sometimes stars can be closer for those who imagine.
This documentary tells the story of nine parts of the body of persons who have suffered irrevocable changes during the year. Animations of body transformations —through growth, aesthetic or pathological changes —are illustrated with testimonies and images of some of the spaces that surrounded each character.
Shoot over the night sky of Mexico City upon landing. What is home? Where is home?
The Mayas predicted the unavoidable-global warming. The future of the world depends on the people returning to the basics and uniting for survival. A divine cycle of death and rebirth.
Cecilia, Alberto and Felipe are trapped because of an epidemic that has taken over the streets of a beach town. They wander alone in a desperate attempt to look for fresh water.
Somewhere in the near future a man that could be identified as an astronomer scouts the night sky. Suddenly, he spots something strange and discovers a new planet. He is amazed and can't believe his new discovery. In a glimpse the planet disappears and a strange creature appears in his observatory.
Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
Peter's life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to obsession and he undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and counter time's increasing pace.. Peter also discovers that if you repeat the word "fly" for long enough it sounds like you're saying "life." This is of no real help to him. His answers lie in the brain of a beetle.
When a scientist's latest attempt to scan the neural network of a brain into a computer construct fails, he must come to terms with the personal sacrifices he has made and the unusual results of his experiments. The Sierra Project is a short science fiction film written and directed by Gabriel de Urioste and produced for the New York University Tisch UGFTV Fall 2009 Narrative Workshop. The film stars Richard Alleman and features Liam Rhodes, Lillian Solange Beaudoin, and Colin Fisher.
The Reality Clock is an experimental animated portrait of an elderly watchmaker as he struggles to accept the influence of early stage Dementia on his identity and sense of time. Shot in full stereoscopic 3D, using time-lapse photography and stop-motion animation, Reality Clock immerses the viewer in the internal experience of the character, expressed through metaphors of a clock, house, and morphing landscapes.
Impressive visual from artist Sam Molleur as he uses stop motion, miniature sets and rotoscoped character expression to create this awesome video for Miracle Parade's 'The Dying Physicist'.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site bid farewell to its "Olmsted Elm" on the morning of March 30th. The tree had to be removed due to it hazardous condition. The National Park Service hopes to replace the elm with a genetic clone derived from the original tree once the ground has been prepared and one of the several clones, or propagules, has reached sufficient size. The removal of the Olmsted Elm was captured on this time-lapse video.
Somewhere in the Universe, on the PLANET Z, a miracle happens. A water jet springs up and gives birth to a new life: plants. A desert planet becomes a green planet. Different species cohabit, including liquid and sticky mushrooms. But little by little, the mushrooms invade the green land and destroy the idyllic life. The toxic spores kill the plants and transform the green planet into a mouldy land. After destroying all the vegetation, the future of the mould seems uncertain – a species cannot live without other ones.
Talk to me about your research. Mathias Thery initiates us into the world of his scientific research through narration and representation. He accompanies his story with humor, showing that the life of researchers in cellular biology is neither sad, nor simple.
Regard d'un jeune plasticien sur la recherche dans son quotidien. Manuel, jeune scientifique, transmet avec passion l'énergie de sa démarche personnelle de recherche. En filmant jour et nuit des cellules, il invente des systèmes originaux pour comprendre les règles d'un autre monde. D'échecs en réussites, il progresse tout en gardant les yeux ouverts sur le monde qui l'entoure. On découvre alors que l'exploration des limites de la connaissance se situe entre le réel et l'imaginaire.
A contemplative piece on perception and how people perceive time.
The human lifespan is increasing by two hours every day. But how much life is enough--100 or 1000 years? Part science, part philosophy, Until is a journey in which leading UK age researchers, children, the elderly and a man seeking immortality, explore some of life's most profound questions.