Playlist

RISC - 2nd edition

23-25 November 2007
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La Physique Du Coin De Table (The Physics of the Kitchen Table)
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La Physique Du Coin De Table (The Physics of the Kitchen Table)
FILM France 2003 · 52 min
Gilles Sévastos

Filmed in a small village in the Southern Alps where he spends his holidays with his family, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes shares his story as a man and as a researcher. Through numerous interviews, interspersed with scenes from his daily life, he performs simple demonstrations to explain the fundamental principles of physics he has worked on. He then delves into broader societal issues such as the decline in scientific vocations among young people, the origins of life, and the relationship between science and religion.
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La Physique Du Sac De Billes (The Physics of the Bag of Marbles)
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La Physique Du Sac De Billes (The Physics of the Bag of Marbles)
FILM France 1997 · 28 min
Alexis Martinet

The film explores the physical properties of granular materials (powders and grains), whose behavior lies between that of a liquid, a solid, or a gas. Additionally, these materials exhibit unique properties, such as their reactions to vibrations or deformations. This highly active field of study raises fundamental questions with significant implications for numerous industrial applications.
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La Lettre Scellée Du Soldat Döblin
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La Lettre Scellée Du Soldat Döblin
FILM France 2006 · 86 min
Jürgen Ellinghaus Hubert Ferry

During the French capitulation of 1940, a French infantryman took his own life in the Vosges village of Housseras. Four years later, he was identified as "Soldier Döblin, Vincent." However, his true identity, life, and story would only be uncovered much later. Wolfgang Döblin, a mathematician, was the son of writer Alfred Döblin (Berlin Alexanderplatz), who, as a Jewish anti-Nazi, had fled Germany with his family in 1933. Naturalized in 1936, Wolfgang Döblin continued his research on "random movements" in probability theory during his military service and the "Phoney War." His final manuscripts (On Kolmogorov's Equation) were sent as a sealed document to the French Academy of Sciences in February 1940 and were not studied until 2000. His groundbreaking work, far ahead of its time, places him among the great innovators of modern probability theory, the "mathematics of chance."
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Les Palmes De Monsieur Schutz
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Les Palmes De Monsieur Schutz
FILM France 1997 · 106 min
Claude Pinoteau

With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Charles Berling... To stimulate Pierre Curie's research, Rodolphe Schutz, the director of the School of Physics and Chemistry, assigns him the assistance of Marie, a young Polish woman who is as brilliant as she is eccentric. Marie quickly disrupts Pierre Curie's routine. However, her work will go on to change the course of humanity.
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Archimède: Carte Blanche
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Archimède: Carte Blanche
FILM France 2003 · 90 min
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An Archimedean projection, featuring distinct subjects, surprises, information, experiments, precision, and humor. A projection to be viewed as if the topics were composed yesterday for today's screening.
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La Maladie De La Mémoire (The Disease oF Memory)
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La Maladie De La Mémoire (The Disease oF Memory)
FILM France, Switzerland 2002 · 90 min
Richard Dindo

With great tenderness, the director brings us close to people suffering from Alzheimer's disease. In the intimacy of families, through interviews with relatives, patients, and caregivers, he shows us how the disease progresses and the relational upheaval it causes: increasingly difficult communication, the despair of parents, their courage, and their dedication.
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Goliath (2007)
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Goliath (2007)
FILM Germany 2007 · 11 min
Roswitha Von Den Driesch

In Marl (an industrial city in western Germany) in August 2006, the "Goliath" building was demolished. Based on this event, the film illustrates the shifting values in society, construction blueprints, and the economic activities of the cities of Berlin, Marl, and Eisenhüttenstadt (formerly known as Stalinstadt).
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Raymond (2006)
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Raymond (2006)
FILM France, United Kingdom 2006 · 5 min
BIF

Raymond, a lazy lifeguard, would love to discover the ocean. A team of scientists is looking into his case.
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Energie ! (2007)
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Energie ! (2007)
FILM Germany 2007 · 5 min
Thorsten Fleisch

An uncontrolled discharge of about 30,000 volts impresses the photographic paper. It is then set in motion to produce new visual systems for organizing electrons.
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Pyllyq (2007)
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Pyllyq (2007)
FILM France 2007 · 16 min
Florent Tarrieux

Pyllyq is the name of the psychoactive pill whose molecular structure will shape the spatiotemporal architecture of the narrative during this 8-phase experience.
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Esprit De Bière (Spirits of Beer)
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Esprit De Bière (Spirits of Beer)
FILM Belgium, France 2000 · 52 min
Claudio Pazienza

X-ray of a glass of beer and the man who drinks it. Just as barley transforms through encounters (water, fire, yeast, etc.), could the man transform through his own encounters, whether accidental or not? Through curious scientific experiments, Claudio Pazienza talks about beer, its transformations, and its recipes, but gradually shifts the subject towards what truly interests him: his father. An odd and surreal wander that beautifully reconciles art and science with exquisite refinement.
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L’homme Sans Douleur
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L’homme Sans Douleur
FILM France 2006 · 51 min
Muriel Coulin Ruth Zylberman

Each week, men and women suffering from chronic pain visit Dr. Danziger at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. He listens to them, advises them, and tries to ease the pain that holds them in its grip, dedicating his research to it. One day, he hears about Alain Bastien, who, after a motorcycle accident, no longer feels any pain. After a series of experiments, Dr. Danziger discovers that Alain Bastien does indeed feel pain, but it no longer affects him—it has become indifferent to him...
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Le Silence Des Nanos
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Le Silence Des Nanos
FILM France 2007 · 75 min
Julien Colin

The action takes place on the screen of a computer connected to the network. From link to link, from site to site, from download to download, the film uncovers the history of these emerging technologies, the visions and dreams they stem from or generate. It also addresses the fears they provoke and the questions—perhaps not new—regarding our relationship with technology, development, and progress, which, in the face of the announced technological revolution, are raised with urgency.
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Bon appetit, Mr. Sun (Bon Appétit Monsieur Soleil)
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Bon appetit, Mr. Sun (Bon Appétit Monsieur Soleil)
FILM France 2005 · 27 min
Boris Claret

On the edge of the Sahel, firewood is becoming rare and expensive. The desert advances steadily each year. To counter this deforestation and the poverty it causes, a network of NGOs, metalworkers, and women's associations has been developing an effective alternative to firewood for the past ten years: parabolic solar cookers.
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Brilliant Noise
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Brilliant Noise
FILM United Kingdom 2008 · 6 min
Semiconductor

Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.
More at: semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm
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Carlitopolis
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Carlitopolis
FILM France 2006 · 4 min
Nieto

Lecturing to a room full of people, a young man uses the latest technical gadgetry to show off a violent and shockingly funny experiment with his cute little pet mouse Carlito.