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<p>A black, white celluloid sci-fi film in retro style for a new world in which hand in hand man and robot would be building a better life.</p>
<p>In CHANCES ARE, a mathematics whiz, compulsively totting up the chances on everything, uses his skills to locate the girl of his dreams after a chance encounter with her at a bar. When a probability geek loses a $20 bill with a girl’s phone number on it, he tries to calculate where the bill, and his chances for love have ended up.</p> <p> </p>
<p>A researcher is emotionally drained as she searches for connections, both in her lab work and relationships. So lost is she in the depth of her studies, it takes an unexpected event to change shift her perspective to a new direction.</p>
<p>In this psychological suspense, James returns to the village of his estranged wife, and grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave.</p>
<p>Seeing his faithful friend quietly losing the battle against the disease, Jean- Pierre doesn't let things go. Knowing that his friend is a true believer of the Catholic religion, he decides to invent an appearance of the Virgin Mary.</p>
<p>A portrait of a physicsist and what gives a quantative meaning to things and the relationship with music. We take a brief visit to the Large Hardron Collider and explore the Higgs-Boson.</p>
<p>With an inquisitive mind and a love for science, Dharini is full of exuberance and ambition... as well as the naivet̩ of a teenager who has yet to face real loss in her life. Taking place over the 16 days of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle mission of 2003, Dharini delves into the world of an imaginative young woman whose personal tragedy seems somehow linked to the greater cosmos. When a sudden accident forces her to confront questions she cannot answer, Dharini struggles to overcome a numbing grief and begins to grasp the vastness and mystery of a universe that cannot be fully explained.</p>
<p>Using cutouts, drawing, hand-held anima- tion, and voiceover, Tirilis takes viewers on a tour through the inner workings of his bodily functions - from the bugs living in his entrails to the computer in his brain.</p>
<p>A geneticist discovers the key to stopping the aging process.</p>
<p>A documentary short by Bioscientist Dr Helen Cooper and Filmmaker Nick Ray Rutter. The Science on Film initiative is run by the Wellcome Trust in partnership with the Documentary Filmmakers Group. It provided a unique and exciting opportunity for film-makers and biomedical scientists to collaborate on an intensive film production and training scheme taught by leading broadcast professionals and scientists. A total of 16 applicants were chosen to participate in a six-day training programme, which included seminars, script development workshops and intensive hands-on training in the documentary production process. The eight film-makers and eight scientists then worked in partnerships to plan, shoot and edit short films inspired by science.</p>
<p>On their 50th wedding anniversary, neuroscientist Eric Kandel and his wife revisit places tied to their experiences during the Holocaust.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/movies/08insearch.html"><em>New York Times Review (A.O. Scott, Jan 2010)</em></a></p> <p><em>It’s not often that you are invited to spend an hour or two in the presence of a <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/nobel_prizes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Nobel Prizes.">Nobel Prize</a> winner, and “In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel,” Petra Seeger’s new documentary, offers an especially gratifying opportunity. The film’s subject won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into the workings of the brain. He is particularly interested in how, at the cellular level, the mind stores and sorts various stimuli and turns them into long- and short-term memory. </em></p>
<p>A boy meets girl… boy gets shot in the head… boy turns to God. Inspired by a true story.</p>
<p>Spend a couple of minutes in the multiverse and you may find it comfortable enough to participate in your own Parallelostory, which is just hip meta-universe slang for "parallel love story."</p>
<p>An exploration of childhood memories, combining (loosely interpreted) scientific theory, the wandering mind of a child, and largely abstract sound design to evoke feelings of nostalgia, familiarity and comfort.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">6ft in 7min, is a short dark comedy about Rajeev Reddi, an East Indian guy who has been surrounded by death all his life, and on his 18th birthday he finally comes to understand why. </span></span></span></p>
<p>A teenage girl disappears under mysterious circumstances only to become an international icon overnight. When her best friend goes looking for her, she must navigate environments both real and virtual to find out what her disappearance means not only to their friendship, but to all of society.</p>
<p>Absence, presence and aquatic distortions in this choreography of fluids, mysterious forces twist the physical laws and affect the behaviour of living beings in purified spaces.</p>
<p>In the middle of a dry, desolate landscape stands Tower 37: a shimmering water processing station, siphoning every last drop of water from a once pristine lake. Day in and day out the station's lone steward monitors the tower's activities, never realizing that Tower 37 is slowly destroying an entire ecosystem. But when two unexpected guests arrive, the tower's operator learns the high cost of his ignorance.</p>
<p>A turning ritual under the West Side Highway through the ‘technological’ dilating eye.</p>
<p>Almost everybody is going to die very soon.</p>
<p>A mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.</p>
<p>It’s the summer of 1979 and 12 year-old Benj Handle has plenty to worry about – his mom’s about to get remarried, and a 90-ton chunk of NASA space trash is heading right for his house.</p>
<p>Sometimes, unexpected guests can very quickly become pests. What happens when you ask them to leave?</p>
<p>When Milo's newest invention, the Reverse Microwave, actually turns out to be a time machine, he and his best friend Levi set out on an adventure through time.</p>
<p>According to the logarithmic map of the universe, the poles are aligned-which can only mean one thing: a wormhole is about to open in the corner of Marjorie Adam's apartment.</p>
<p>A high school freshman’s approach to a girl he likes is mirrored in a cause and effect relationship during a presentation of his science project; a rube goldberg machine.</p>
<p>Art and science intersect in unexpected ways, as Da Vinci's experiments with flight lead him to the discovery of his most famous muse.</p>
<p>"The Clone Returns Home" is a compelling meditation on the paradox of life and death, and the meaning of love and family. Set in an imaginary - yet utterly imaginable - future, this quietly provocative film skillfully transposes complex emotional drama into the realm of science fiction by exploring the influence of technology on human memory and experience. Filled with stunning imagery and haunting stillness, The Clone Returns Home deftly combines subtly nuanced sci-fi with a uniquely Japanese perspective on the universal themes of family, life, love, and death.</p> <p><em>Eerie twins and wayward clones provide double trouble, to enigmatic, haunting effect, in "The Clone Returns Home," a Japanese oddity that should please arthouse auds and sci-fi cultists alike. </em><a href="http://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/the-clone-returns-home-2-1200472620/">Variety</a></p>
<p>This is the story of Venetia Phair, who as an 11-year-old Oxford schoolgirl in 1930, came up with the suggestion for the name of the newly discovered Planet X over a family breakfast, making her inspiration to name it Pluto a unique contribution to scientific history. 77 years later, Venetia is yet to see Pluto through a telescope and in the recent light of its demotion in 2006, she's invited by Sir Patrick Moore to view the planet she named through his telescope. The sighting proves unsuccessful and Venetia waits a year before a second opportunity is extended, this time by the Science Observatory in Herstmonceux. Coincidentally the viewing happens on the eve of her 89th birthday. Pluto's demotion has divided the scientific community and undone 70 years of learning for millions of children around the world. Before scientific technology takes us to the next chapter of planetary discovery and introduces further wonders to us, Naming Pluto looks back at the extraordinary way a young girl came to name a planet and witnesses her long awaited reunion with planet she named.</p>
<p>A moth goes on a journey to find new light during a New York City blackout and finds an unlikely friend.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Biochemistry as you've never experienced it before: The Science Rapper makes you feel as if its your first time replicating DNA.</p>
<p>Investigation around killings of unusual animals by a strange private detective named Dick Mipy. We sought to better understand the evolutionary patterns of MEPE in mammals and when and how its functional regions were acquired during evolution.</p>
<p>A comic surrealistic short movie measuring daily life in single units and multiplying them by powers.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Quantum Quest centers on the story of Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cassini Spacecraft and save it from the forces of the Void, only Dave does not know exactly what he must do or even where the Cassini Space craft is or what it is. The forces of the Void must destroy Cassini before it sends its great discoveries back to Earth,Dave is the only thing that stands between them and victory.</span></span></span></p>
<p>The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?</p>
<p>The premise in recording this time-lapse was to capture numerous aeroplane trails, to see how their vapour would display when recorded at 1 frame per second.</p> <p> </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 novel blend of mockumentary, documentary and reality exploring the chaos around global warming -- from the silliness of environmental flakes to the seriousness of Hurricane Katrina. </span></span></span></p>
<p>A film inspired by the Victorian inventor Charles Babbage, a man equally famous for inventing the computer and failing to build it. Part historical drama part fantasy, the film introduces us to those Babbage loved and lost. Babbage's story is one of inventive genius, failure and loss focusing on a time which gave birth to the modern world.</p>
<p>A short documentary about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Features interviews with leading physicists and popular science experts.</p>
<p>Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. A Cambridge graduate who was fundamental to cracking the Nazi's Enigma Code during WWII, Turing created what is hailed by some as the first modern computer and was a legendary innovator in his field.</p> <p>He was also gay, and fell victim to the intolerance and legal prosecution of his time, as homosexuality was considered an extreme mental illness and subject to criminal sanctions in the UK. Turing was pursued legally based on his sexual orientation, and eventually ruined professionally, exiled from his colleagues, and forced to undergo chemical castration in an attempt to “cure” him.</p> <p>Posthumously, Turing is lauded; whether in the Academy Award-winning film <em>The Imitation Game</em> or at universities around the world where there are programs and buildings in his name. And, since 1966, the Turing Award has been given each year by the Association for Computing Machinery, widely considered to be the computing world's equivalent to the Nobel Prize.</p> <p>This short documentary features interviews with those who knew him, and those who have studied him, to examine the life of one of the most profound LGBTQ+ historical figures, and a man who changed the course of history for the entire world.</p>