Selected Works

The Signal and the Noise

Charlie Tweed

The film is voiced by an anonymous group of 'hybrid' machines, from some point in the near future, who look at humans and animals as inefficient machines and consider ways of editing and improving their code. Whilst the work appears to be a piece of science fiction all of the technologies and ideas discussed are based on actual advances and research and real visions of how things might materialise in the future including the concepts of DNA and biological computing and the recent technology for gene editing known as CRISPR.
A film by Charlie Tweed, in collaboration with Dr Darren Logan. Commissioned by Animate Projects and supported by the Wellcome Trust.
silentsignal.org/Collaborations/the-signal-and-the-noise

Sleepless

Ellie Land

Sleep. Do we get enough? The latest developments in circadian biology research are uncovering the detrimental effects that a lack of sleep can have to our well-being. Sleepless is the result of a two year conversation between artist Ellie Land and scientist Professor Peter Oliver about the links now being discovered between sleep and mental health. Its rhythm is inspired by the circadian cycle and displays visual icons rooted in the science of sleep, whilst featuring the voices of a group of mental health service users who share their experience of disrupted sleep/wake patterns.

Loop

Samantha Moore

Loop is about what can be seen and what cannot, how scientists imagine their work and how they describe it. The film is based on the work done in Dr Serge Mostowy's lab on septin assembly in cells, using a zebrafish model. Lab members describe the intricate sub-cellular septin dynamics and structure. Their explanatory drawings, and discussion with the filmmaker about how they see the research, are incorporated into the animation. Each person's unique and idiosyncratic vision of the process brings a different facet to the complex and secret world of septin cytoskeleton dynamics. The scientists' different theories of assembly reveal the creative and discursive nature of science. The scientists' original sketches, included at the end of the film, emphasises how closely they worked with the filmmaker to translate their individual vision to the whole.