Playlist
<p>At the National Institute of Preservation, all problems in the world are resolved. Swiftly, and with little pain involved.</p>
<p>A girl is enjoying a ride in an open convertible on a sunny day when she stops at a service station to have the tank filled with green gasoline. Her drive takes a different turn when the gasoline leads her to discover the fuel’s real nature: only apparently ecological, green fuel is actually, as she will soon see, the cause of devastating environmental damage.</p>
<p>Against the backdrop of 19th-century wireless telegraph experimentation, a scientist must survive a confrontation with a distraught local who claims the mysterious technology keeps him from contacting his recently departed wife.</p>
<p>Genius Marius Borodine's spectacular new invention that can transform any and all objects into drinkable water, bewilders the public, scientific communities, and the family of the misunderstood creator, especially after he takes one step too far.</p>
<p>In 1939, the Manhattan Project began with an experiment and a meeting at Columbia University. Hungarian-born physicist, Leo Szilard, has advanced beyond the recent splitting of the atom — which was believed to have no practical application — and discovers the next step in physics that will make atomic energy and a bomb imminently possible. Szilard must convince his colleague, Enrico Fermi, and the Physics Dean, George Pegram, to keep their nuclear research secret and protect the world from a technology that could end all human life</p>
<p>In a not too distant future, a Plastic Bag goes on an epic journey in search of its lost Maker, wondering if there is any point to life without her. The Bag encounters strange creatures, brief love in the sky, a colony of prophetic torn bags on a fence and the unknown. To be with its own kind, the Bag goes deep under the oceans into 500 nautical miles of spinning garbage known as the North Pacific Trash Vortex. Will our Plastic Bag be able to forget its Maker there?</p>
<p>An animation about the human immune system created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a revolutionary theory by Nobel Laureate, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, illustrating how the body fights infection. The animation Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a revolutionary theory called "Clonal Selection" by Nobel Laureate, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Narrated using simple yet scientifically accurate language, the animation tells the story of how the body fights against a common bacterial infection. Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection is a world-first in visualizing the immune system with both microscopic and atomic detail, and is firmly founded on scientific research. The animation was designed to raise the understanding of the immune system in the general public and as a teaching resource for university students and scientists.</p>
<p>A young man, accompanied by his mysterious mechanical bear, visits an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and follow his Father on a journey into the unknown. A magical journey about relationships and what it is to be human.</p>
<p>The experiment has ben a succes: protomatter exists.</p>
<p>In the polarized economy of the near future, corporations offer financial incentives to their high-ranking female employees to pay for chemically accelerated surrogate births. The surrogates, for the most part, are people on the lower end of the economic spectrum — often immigrants or people looking to make their rent. Though the windfall to a woman who agrees to be an accelerated-birth surrogate is substantial, there are side effects. One can only undergo three surrogate births before becoming sterile.</p> <p><em>Silver Sling</em> follows Lydia, a Russian immigrant in her late 20s, as she tries to decide whether or not to agree to her third surrogate pregnancy. If she does, she will be able to bring her little brother over from Russia to care for him, which she had promised her dying mother she would do. But making good on that promise will end her own dreams to have a child with her devoted boyfriend, Stephan. Lydia, motivated by her familial responsibilities, chooses to undergo a third accelerated pregnancy.</p> <p>As she begins the process to be accepted as a potential surrogate, Lydia meets Ana, a nurse on her first day at the Silver Sling clinic. While Lydia is gruff, hardened by her time in the U.S., Ana is kind and unassuming. But beyond their visible differences, Ana and Lydia have something in common that Lydia would never have imagined — a secret that will unite them.</p> <p> </p>
<p><em>Tagged</em> introduces us to the raging debate over the ubiquitous Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip, touted as a tool with invaluable medical applications by its supporters and denounced as the death knell for civil liberties by privacy advocates. This playfully smart short doc lets the audience decide: Is it “hip to be chipped,” as a proposed marketing slogan claimed, or could RFID implants accelerate a slide down the slippery slope from surveillance society to totalitarian nightmare?</p>
<p>Based on the English author E.M. Forster’s short-story of the same title, The Machine Stops is a science-fiction drama that follows two inhabitants of an underground technological dystopia, deemed simply as “the Machine.” Kuno and Vashti have conflicting opinions about the world in which they live & struggle to find hope on the very day their society comes to a sudden collapse. This prediction of Man’s oppressed yet complacent role in the midst of a technology-crazed world in relentless pursuit of an undefined “progress” is seemingly more relevant today than when it was published 100 years ago.</p>
<p>In a indeterminate future, the Earth is dead under plains of waste and global warming. The surface is uninhabitable and Mankind lives inside a huge machine that controls their five senses and provides them pay-dreams.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">A gynaecologist is working at her hospital as everyday. But the next patient...is a boy!</span></span></p>
<p>I don't know if you've ever heard a goat eating carrots? It's almost too much, it's so lovely' An Eyeful of Sound conjures up the fascinating visually complex internal world of audio-visual syn-aesthesia, where senses make unique connections the rest of us don't experience. In this Wellcome Trust funded project award winning animated documentary maker Samantha Moore has worked with Dr Jamie Ward, leading researcher into synaesthesia and head of the UK Synaesthesia Research Group, and a group of people with synaesthesia to portray an accurate and insightful portrait of what it is like to experience the condition. Synaesthesia is discussed, argued over, dissected and celebrated in this beautifully sensitive animated documentary.</p>
<p>This animated film reflects on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its environmental impact. The film was created by 6th-8th grade students at Sidney Gutierrez Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico, under the direction of animator Karen Aqua and composer Ken Field. The students used hand-drawn animation techniques (cut-outs and flipbooks), and created all the artwork, sound effects, music, and narration.</p>
<p>Three-year-old Jake is kidnapped by his grandparents and great aunt, who don't believe that he is safe in his father's care. Five years pass and Jake, more mature now, wants to know why his father has not returned for him. He fills the void with fantasy, drawing upon some 1930s encyclopedias and an old stereoscope. The characters in the stereoscope cards occupy his world, offering friendship and advice in his search for his father. When Jake attempts to turn a photograph of his father into a stereoscope card, he hopes to conjure his dad out of the card and into his life; instead, a detail in the picture provides a clue as to his father's whereabouts, reuniting Jake with his his dad and ending his grandparents'flight.</p>
<p><em>Off-Line</em> is a short stop-motion animated film that I created and produced over four years. It tells about my relationship to work and how I understand it. The film is focused on a small orange capacitor named “IZ” that lives on the circuit-board control-panel of a microwave oven. The microwave is constantly being abused by a human through overuse and inappropriate application and in the end the microwave shorts out. This is based on my own personal experience. When the microwave is shorted-out the human bangs the machine and on the inside IZ is jolted out of its connection holes. IZ is forced to travel around its world, the circuit board, seeking life force and discovering the world around it. In a classic “hero’s journey” fashion, IZ eventually comes to the edge of the world and has a vision about work and its place in that system. IZ discovers its unique role in the grand scheme and decides to return to its position once the human gives the work-command. Now, enlightened, IZ chooses to step out of its connection holes by “free will” and encourages others to do the same. They concur, but in the end greater forces in life overcome the gift of the hero’s journey.</p>
<p>The short, CGI animation, Smart Machine, captures a little boy's unusual encounter with a vending machine during a family vacation. The child discovers that the machine can talk and it has a very strong opinion on what he should eat! About nutrition, the piece presents a healthy food choice to children 5-12, and their families, through visual storytelling.</p>
<p>A young medical assistant is giving a nice presentation about the principles of evolution. The genetic information of each living being is subject to modifications. Mutations can lead to bacterial resistance towards antibiotics.</p>
<p>This animated, upbeat ode to the periodic table of elements and how they form our world, appears on the new They Might Be Giants kids’ album “Here Comes Science.”</p>
<p>A scientist working on memory in the amygdala of the brain sees a vision of a lost love through the microscope. He decides to go visit her and have a last moment of intimacy.</p> <p>A music video for <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBSh4R8G7jg">Mind Over Matter </a> </em>song, part of the new album <a href="http://www.amygdaloids.com/?page_id=815">Theory of my Mind </a>of the American rock band from New York <a href="http://www.amygdaloids.net">The Amygdaloids</a> led by neuroscientist <a href="http://joseph-ledoux.com">Joseph LeDoux.</a></p> <p> </p>
<p>Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cms from himself..If he wants to open a door, sit on a chair, or pick up the phone, from now on he just has to do so from 91 centimetres away.</p>
<p>After arriving at his remote research station, a scientist performs experiments with the Nanosporin AI serum, first on grapes, then on himself. A tiny, bespectacled, beret-wearing micro-organism begins ‘painting’ his host (the scientist) on a cellular level. This causes the host some discomfort as well as some rather intense hallucinations. The experiment culminates in the host becoming a ‘living work of art’ and then expiring.</p>
<p>Here is an animated podcast featuring the fried egg jelly, the moon jelly, parasitic amphipods, and some crabs. Narration is by Trisha Towanda, the score is by Amil Byleckie, and the drawing and editing is by Sophia Tintori. The video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. Check out CreatureCast.org to read about this story, or to find others stories about animals.</p>
<p>In a simplistic and playful animated fashion, James retraces the course of a medicine and goes inside the world of the prescription drug.</p>
<p>BREU is a visual journey into the aspects of fear – an ancient and useful characteristic of our self preservation that can easily become an unforgiving handicap. This dark(ish) tale explores its dangers and benefits using live image and animation.</p>
<p>From the collection Curious Brain, <em>The Velvet Cell </em>itself turns Gravenhurst’s usual murder ballads into a murder mystery: over spiky electric guitars and a Krautrock-inspired motorik beat, Talbot sings, “To understand the killer/I must become the killer.”</p>
<p>This experimental video was created as a final project for my procedural animation class at Savannah College of Art and Design. It was inspired by demoscene and sub-atomic particle collision images. The name comes from the Higgs Boson particle which is expected to provide a scientific foundation for the origin of mass in the universe.</p>
<p>Humans have invented many useful artifacts to support life. Some of them are not only harming other creatures but impairing this planet.</p>
<p>Devastated by the death of his beloved daughter, Annie, Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) sinks into a deep depression, and cannot bring himself to finish his book about evolution. Though Annie's death has broken Darwin's faith in God, it has galvanized that of his wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly). Darwin's associates urge him to finish his revolutionary work, while Emma strongly objects, leaving Darwin with an agonizing choice.</p>
<p>Higgs takes us inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on a quest for the Higgs particle. Sometimes called "The God Particle," this is the missing link in particle physics. At CERN, a physics lab underneath the border between France and Switzerland, the biggest research project in history is under construction: the LHC, which at 17 miles long is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. Thousands of scientists from all over the world are working together at CERN to find the Higgs particle, which is a needle hidden in a million haystacks. Filmed over the course of four years, as research at the largest laboratory on earth unfolds, the filmmakers take us on an amazing cinematic journey into the heart of imagination.</p>
<p>Most people have found themselves in situations where they have got to choose between two things. But sometimes that seems quite hard, as if two mysterious inner voices fight against each other. Our work deals with this topic to give science a new preposterous explanation about the human brain.</p>
<p>Being a mamma requires sacrifice, especially for the Diaea ergandros. The spider lets herself be devoured by her babies. After showing the world the unconventional mating and scandalous sex lives of animals in her Webby-award winning, internationally acclaimed short film series GREEN PORNO and SEDUCE ME, Isabella Rossellini returns to Sundance Channel and sets her provocative lens on creatures' rites of passage into motherhood in her latest series MAMMAS.</p>
<p>"If I were a dragonfly..." The Dragonfly episode in Season 1 of Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno series.</p> <p>The series features Rossellini on both land and sea as she acts out the reproductive habits of marine animals and insects, both scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining.</p>
<p>We live today in a globalized world, and although we are aware of where a product is from, we don't know where it has been. Due to the low cost of shipping it pays to outsource production to wherever in the world production is cheaper. Shipping emits globally twice as much CO2 as aviation, but CO2 emissions from shipping are not regulated by the Kyoto Protocol or the European legislation. This movie is based on a fish sticks trip.</p>