A scene is a single unedited recording — a process caught as it happened, kept whole. Take one and build something else with it.
Most watched
2,136 viewings across the archive
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perpetually am I troubled, stirred, frozen, or smothered by the noise of your death
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The Arrival of Monarch Butterflies in Sierra Chincua Butterfly Reserve
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Entrance of the Sun Dancers (2022)
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An Extremely Graphic Frog Dissection in the 1920s
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Dancing Devils of Chuao (2026)
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Mechanical Bending of micropillars by C. elegans
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The word for world is forest no 1.: The oak tree
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Transferring Female Fruit Flies into the Chamber of a Courtship Mating Wheel
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What a scene is
Not a film. A scene is one continuous recording that captures something real as it happens — a cell dividing, a river moving, a bird landing. It is left unedited on purpose, so that someone else can pick it up and put it to a use its maker never imagined.
Caught, not composed
A process recorded in real time — through a microscope, a drone, a camera left running. No cuts, no commentary.
Made to be reused
Scenes are here to be taken somewhere else — into a film, a lecture, an installation — and to mean something different when they arrive.
24 subjects, 20 countries
Cell division, forests, neurons, weather, ritual — filmed everywhere from a laboratory bench to the middle of the ocean.
The archive
If you have footage of a process — something you filmed down a microscope, in the field, or out of a window — it belongs here. Scenes are reviewed by the Labocine team before they join the archive.
