Scenes also serve as clips for teaching, documenting and preserving the accuracy of science through film.
They are precisely unedited and raw. There are meant to be recycled and repositioned into a different context in which they can be framed as cinematic experiences.
Fly Sorting in The Fly Room
A young PhD student works at his dissection scope sorting through male and female fruit flies. All fruit flies are sorted and manipulated by immobiling them on CO2 fly pads. Flies are analyzed under stereoscope microscopes using paintbrushes to gently separate the flies based on gender and various phenotypic features.