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<p>Muerto Canyon is a medical thriller. The hantavirus sweeps through a Native American community in New Mexico. A dedicated Native American doctor and a Center for Disease Control researcher work to find the cause of the debilitating and sometimes fatal virus.</p>
<p>In this tale of the high psychological cost paid by those who worked on the bomb, a scientist is wracked by guilt over the destruction and death the bomb will cause. He imagines finding a poor family – father, sick mother, and young son – living in a shack near the test site’s ground zero.</p>
<p>The story of The First Vampire centers on the true origins of the western Vampire Legend: fourteenth century Scandinavia. A Viking fleet is decimated by an unknown force, which drains men of their blood. The main character tries to make sense of the horror unfolding in front of him.</p>
<p>In Vivid Detail is the unusual love story between Leslie and Justin, an architect who suffers from Prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that makes him incapable of recognizing faces. Face blindness is a broken bridge, a disconnected line between sight and mind. Somewhere along the path of recognition, there is an error of interpretation... </p>
<p>Ever since Man’s first thought, he has striven to understand and master matter and the elements, organise chaos, channel energy. Just as water is essential for Life, scientific knowledge and research cannot be disassociated from the history of mankind. L2i follows the history of the national center of scientific research (CNRS) in France.</p> <p>Ever since Man’s first thought, he has striven to understand and master matter and the elements, organise chaos, channel energy. Just as water is essential for Life, scientific knowledge and research cannot be disassociated from the history of mankind. L2i follows the history of the national center of scientific research (CNRS) in France.</p> <p> </p>
<p>What would the world be like if biometrics was used everywhere? Would life really be simpler? Would it be more complicated at times? Here is the story of Little Red Riding Hood reinterpreted for exhibition in a biometric world.</p>
<p>The passage between light and dark, between happiness and despair, find an elegant scientific metaphor in this film. Wally watches his grandmother lecture college students about wormholes that connect black and white holes, and the immense gravitational pull between them. He remembers the time before his little brother was kidnapped, tearing his family apart.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Anne is lonely. She lives with her mother, has no friends, and is fighting cancer. Her escape from reality exists in the form of The Aviatrix, an intergalactic superhero alter ego who rockets through space to fight the powers of evil on distant planets. Anne’s fantasy world is her only way of experiencing the adventure and romance that remain painfully absent from her life—until Miles shows up.</span></p>
<p>What happened in the desert? The voice of her psychiatrist keeps repeating in her head. Carol, just released from the hospital, wakes up one more time totally confused. Why does she feel strangely out of place in her life now? Why is she haunted by a little girl who keeps talking about a big black bubble? A supernatural thriller where physics and a little girl's uncanny intuitions mix with a haunting Joshua tree in the desert.</p>
<p>"A Clockwork Orange" meets "Pleasantville" in this sci-fi short set against the backdrop of a dystopian society that idolizes celebrity assassins called Agents. Carl Phillips dreams of giving his young son a 'better' life by sending him to Agent Training Camp. His wife, Sophie, doesn't share the same dream and does the unthinkable to save her son from a life of murder.</p>
<p>Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In California King, a womanizing mattress salesman – who employs faux physics to get female customers into bed – falls for a skeptical insomniac who knows her science better than her heart. Of course these lovelorn characters deserve nothing less than each other.</p>
<p>In 2020 global travel is simple. Step into a matter transporter in one time zone and arrive seconds later in another. But this apparent golden age of travel without boundaries has another side. When the system malfunctions, one man discovers the dark truth behind the corporate facade.</p>
<p>Summoned to a remote warehouse by the enigmatic Fermat, four brilliant mathematicians are given pseudonyms -- Galois, Hilbert, Olivia and Pascal -- and tasked with solving highly complex numerical riddles. As the apparent strangers struggle to solve the puzzles and determine why they are there, the stakes get higher as the walls literally begin to close in around them.</p>
<p>It’s a tragic, maddening story, pitting common sense against the entrenched ignorance that drove Semmelweis to a nervous breakdown. In 1847, he discovered that many cases of childbirth fever had been caused by the fact that doctors weren’t washing their hands before treating pregnant women. His findings were spurned by the medical community. Shortly after his breakdown, Semmelweis died.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Nikola Tesla finds himself inside the sort of fantasia in which Fellini might feel at home. It’s not just Tesla the genius that intrigues Shapiro, but Tesla the showman.</p>
<p>Paprika celebrates the hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi who received a Nobel Prize in 1937 for his work on the isolation of Vitamin C.</p>
<p>Take a flight over NYC, the lab and the history of fruit fly research. The rapport that a scientist may have with his model organism is similar to what a painter may have with his canvas. Through the microscope, the fruit fly appears like a monstrously beautiful insect that has sacrificed itself in the pursuit of science.</p>
<p>Peculiar scientist Dieter and stubborn soccer robot Max are protagonists in this film, which reveals insights into soccer through humorous action. The pilot episode presents The Physics of the Mexican Wave. More topics could include: Does heading make you dumb; How can a ball fly a curve; How do fans shout the referee onto their side?</p>
<p>Poison toads. Missing socks. Carpet Leeches. So many ways to die at home!</p>
<p>John Volt is an aging physics professor who wants to win back the respect of both his colleagues and his wife. When he announces to the world that he has made a profound discovery that will ensure his place in the history books, it is up to Seeta, Volt’s former student, to give him what he really deserves.</p>
<p>Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the icons of space travel and landing on the moon were. But years before they conquered space, a 6-year-old boy took part in one of the first secret NASA moon expeditions: Apollo 10 1/2. The film follows the story of Nicolas Gordon Gambis from his intensive NASA training, through the gripping shuttle take-off, into his three day voyage into space. An inspiration to all the budding astronauts out there!</p>
<p>Astrophysicist geeks and the scientifically-challenged alike, enjoy! Follow along on a hardcore, risk-filled, scientific adventure into the heart of the Big Bang. In the ongoing attempt to unlock the mysteries of the origins of the universe, an international team of ultra-adventurous astrophysicists, led by Dr. Mark Devlin, is aiming to launch a multi-million dollar telescope attached to the NASA high-altitude balloon. As the telescope and team travel from Kiruna, Sweden, deep into the Canadian North, and to Antarctica, BLAST! tells a human story – the daily frustrations, enormous sacrifices, catastrophic failures and transcendent triumphs – of scientific pursuit.</p>
<p>In the wake of global devastation a lone survivor is running out of time. As he desperately searches for survivors will he find hope in a junk pile?</p>
<p>Sleep Dealer, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S. / Mexico border, tells the story of Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña), a young man from Mexico who dreams of coming to the United States. However, in this brave new borderland, crossing is impossible, and Memo ‘migrates’ in a new way — over the net. By connecting his body to a global digital network, Memo controls a machine that performs his labor in America, sending his pure work without the body of the worker. </p>
<p>In "Séance of Maths" Jackie Goss and Andrew Gori tell a hermetic Hansel and Gretel story, with a brother and sister who keep missing each other while they're looking for their mother among a forest of hotel rooms; videographer Tyler Coburn pays homage to his room by draping plastic over his mirror and all the furnishings in "Hotel, Hotel, Hotel."</p>
<p>CosmicConnexion, an attempt to bring together inhabitants of the Cosmos. Thirty years after the Voyager and Pioneer probes, a television channel, relayed by an antenna of the National Center for Space Studies, sends a new message from humanity to the stars.</p> <p>A documentary directed by Denis Van Waerebeke for the program Cosmic Connexion co-produced by Cargo Films / ARTE France 2006.</p>
<p>This experimental documentary, which includes interviews with Avital Ronnell, Oliver Sacks, and Merce Cunningham, explores pilgrim mathematician Paul Erdos, Hellen Keller, and the philosophical ideas of genius and stupidity. Great Genius and Profound Stupidity is the fourth in a series of films by Benita Raphan on visionaries that were generally considered to be "the future." The others are Absence Stronger Than Presence, 2+2, and The Critical Path.</p>
<p>How do different people and groups of people view science? What do they know about it? What do they think is important? In this educational project, two colleagues and I from Imperial College asked three groups of people what they thought was important about science today......and draw it !</p> <p>Here is the result expressed as four drawings joined using the Surrealists' technique of 'Exquisite Corpse'</p> <p>(This educational/non-commercial audio-visual piece incorporates on a fair use basis incidental music extracts from Thomas Newman’s ‘Dead Already’ – from the soundtrack of American Beauty)</p> <p>To add your own drawing, join the Exquisite Corpse of Science Flickr Group.</p> <p>Tim Jones, communicatescience.com</p>
<p> </p> <p>When William Willoughby, an eccentric old inventor, realizes his biggest challenge yet - perfecting time travel- he figures he can spare a minute or two to help his dull minded landlord, who can't seem to stop getting himself killed. One would assume this to be an easy task next to the strenuous work of creating a time machine yet William quickly comes to learn that you can't outwit stupidity, and that Natural Selection sometimes isn't as straightforward as one would think.</p>