Symbiosis x Infinite Sums

MOSS (2026)

Elsa Wong Marc Ritter

<p>How does it feel to do science? We find patterns in nature, and craft a model from it, a faint impression of nature. As we refine it more and more, the model gains clarity and structure. Yet, nature is fundamentally boundless. We never know what we will find, so we must find a new path of ideas at each step. Our ideas are shaped by the natural environment, and by the ideas that have come before us. Our ideas will form an environment for new ideas to grow. It is this endless feedback cycle in which our fingerprint remains.</p>

electron_matter (2026)

Yan Shao Olivier Gingras

<p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">How can one represent a quantum material? How can an electron, a fundamental particle with its own energy, freedom, and uncertainty, shape solid matter and its emergent properties? This film is a visual abstract journey from a single electron to a collective quantum state. Alone in a sea of vacuum fluctuations, an electron is both wave and particle. It emits and absorbs photons, encounters other electrons, and often binds to nuclei. Atoms form a lattice, propagating electrons influence its vibrations, and pairs form and synchronize, forming a coherent state such as a superconductor. In matter, electrons matter.</span></p>

Lacunae (2026)

Danya Abt Lukas Devos

<p>To understand something is to translate it, to shape it, to choose what survives until the picture comes into view. Lacunae is a short experimental documentary about what this shaping leaves behind. Noise crackles in the details of a digital video, at once a flaw and a kind of beauty. A small poem is passed from language to language, warping as it goes. A riddle refuses to cross over. Words are struck through until new meaning surfaces in the gaps between.</p>

Absolute Zero (2026)

Diego Andres Murillo Sonya Hanson

<p>The case of a New York City scientist and her peculiar relation to a microscoping being.</p>

Concrete Cosmos (2026)

Adonis Williams Adrian Bayer

<p>A British physicist and a Brooklyn filmmaker move through New York City, tracing a conversation between the deep Universe and life on Earth. The Cosmic Microwave Background emerges not as a distant echo, but as an infinite field of frequencies, the original hum of existence.</p> <p>As these patterns unfold, they begin to echo in the rhythms of the city; movement, sound, and human connection. What emerges is not a translation, but a reflection: a search for harmony across scales, from the cosmos to the everyday.</p>