Culture is Science. Science is Culture.
Experiments become cinema
A movement of artists, researchers, educators and hybrids of every kind who cross disciplines and take real risks with how science is filmed. Every member is given a genetic sequence when they join — the strand above is made of them.
Manifesto
The Science New Wave turns down the conventions of the traditional science film — the authoritative voice, the tidy explanation — in favour of experiment and personal expression. Six traits hold it together. Like anything alive, they will keep changing.
Culture is Science. Science is Culture.
Diversity feeds the ecosystem.
Experiments become Cinema.
Structure dictates function.
Science & Story never collide.
We are all messengers.
The Science New Wave was founded on 26 August 2016 in Lairoux, a commune on the west coast of France.
At a town hall meeting, citizen scientists presented years of data on the collapse of the local bat population. To almost everyone's surprise they ended not with a conclusion but with a short experimental film, shot from the point of view of one distressed bat — research and surrealism in the same breath.
Many, though not all, agreed that fusing science, the imaginary and cinema mattered. One attendee went home and drafted the first version of the manifesto. It draws on early cinema and on developmental biology in equal measure.
The original, as it was typed. Open it to read the whole thing, or download the PDF members are sent when they join.
Membership
Membership is a Labocine subscription. It opens the archive, the tools and the open calls — and it gives you a genetic sequence of your own, which is how the wave counts itself.
Everything on Labocine: the monthly issues, weekly spotlights, live showings and the whole archive.
See plansEverything in monthly, and a yearly membership is what makes you eligible for Luminary status: open calls, festival voting, and an invitation to take part in what the wave makes.
Join the waveLabocine PRO, for festivals, universities and institutions who programme and teach with the archive.
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Monthly Issues, weekly Spotlights, Live showings and the Pick of the Day.
Keep field notes on your work
Write up how a film was made — the research, the tests, the things that never made the cut — from My Work.
Share privately with other members
Send a film, a cut or raw data to another Habitat member without making any of it public.
Apply to open calls
Monthly themed calls, the Luminary Residency and the Science New Wave Fund. A yearly membership opens more of them.
Host events and workshops
Invitations to run something at the Science New Wave Lab in Brooklyn or Galerie Labocine in Paris.
Partner perks and the store
Discounts, curated tours and passes from Science New Wave partners, and 20% off everything in the store.
Subscribe
Pick a plan on Labocine. A yearly plan is the one that makes you eligible for Luminary status.
Fill in your Habitat profile
Complete About Yourself on your account page. A public profile with a biography is what the community grid below is made of.
Record a manifesto film
Optional, and the best part. A short piece to camera on how you resonate with the wave — it joins the films at the bottom of this page.
Luminaries
Luminaries are active members — artists, filmmakers, journalists and researchers who work across disciplines and argue with the manifesto rather than just agreeing with it. They shape what the wave programmes next.
1,674 of the 2,024 members hold Luminary status today.
Think you should be one? Write to sciencenewwave@labocine.com and make the case. There is no deadline.
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SNW Community
2,024 members across 87 countries. Search by name, craft or city — every profile here is a Habitat page you can open.
Latest work
The newest films and scenes on Labocine by members of the wave, finished or still being made.
One Lightyear (2026)
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Garúa (2025)
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I Left That Way (2026)
Damla Basturk
Transformation of an Image (2019)
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Our Eyes (2018)
Ramith Kunhimangalam
What Goes Wrong in Cancer?
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This / Keep (2026)
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In The Wake (2026)
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Festival
A week of films that experiment with form and style and change how science is seen on screen. It runs on Labocine, so members watch the whole programme from wherever they are — no travel, no tickets.
16–23 October 2026 · online, on Labocine
The Luminary Awards
The festival's prizes are decided by the community itself. Every Luminary holds a vote.
Submitting a film
Entries come through FilmFreeway. Luminaries get until 31 August and a fee waiver. Entries for XIX have closed.
Everywhere at once
The whole programme screens online, so a film from Lagos and its audience in Lima meet on the same night.
Nineteen years of it
With thanks to Imagine Science Films, who carried the crossover of science and cinema for more than fifteen of them.
Everything we wrote as it happened.
We Are All Messengers — Science New Wave Luminary Awards 2025
Science New Wave Festival XVIII: Radical Change of Every Kind
Science New Wave Festival XVII Tackles Science and Art
Field Notes from the 2024 Science New Wave Funded Projects
Science New Wave XVI Festival: What’s Important in 2023
Symbiosis & The Science New Wave
Science New Wave Manifesto
Son of Monarchs: Riding the Science New Wave
Manifesto films
Short pieces to camera on what the Science New Wave means to the person saying it. Any member can record one from their account.
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filmmaker
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Sami Mahmood
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Mathew Dominic
student of time
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audiovisual artist, filmmaker
Beatrice Steinert
biologist, historian, filmmaker
Jesse McLean
filmmaker
Ellie Ga
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Melissa Ferrari
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Ariel Martínez
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filmmaker and sociologist
Anthony Banua-Simon
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filmmaker
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filmmaker
Emily Pelstring
artist, filmmaker
Sarah Schenck
filmmaker, writer
Omar Al-Nakib
filmmaker, visual artist, poet
Zahra AlMahdi
artist, writer, filmmaker.
Niccolò Bigagli
physicist
Danny Alveal Aravena
photojournalist, cinematographer
Anthony Chesebro
neuroscientist,physician-in-training,biomedical engineer
Sol Cabezas
licenciada en marketing y maestranda en museología
Jean-Jacques Martinod
filmmaker, media artist, researcher, radio dj
Kaeti MacNeil
animator, pianist
Janna Kyllästinen
documentary filmmaker
María Casas
filmmaker, science communicator, artist
Janelle VanderKelen
artist, filmmaker
Kelly R Sutherland
marine biologist, science communicator, underwater explorer
Adriana de Lucio
filmmaker
Lauren Vetere
neuroscientist, writer, science communicator
Arun Dayanandan
forest ecologist
Wyatt Toure
ph.d. candidate
Maya Theresia Laughton
neuroscience researcher & filmmaker
Jess X. Snow
filmmaker
Julia Castro
filmmaker, sound designer
Julián Galay
filmmaker, composer, researcher, sound designer
Yumeng He
transdisciplinary artist, documentary director, cinematographer, sound designer
Jeffrey Zablotny
director
Marnie Ellen Hertzler
filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist
Chris Gude
filmmaker
Maurício Chades
filmmaker, artist, ecologist
Pauline Blanchet
filmmaker
Felix Lamarche
filmmaker
Jaime Sunwoo
filmmaker, animator, artist
Luciana Decker Orozco
filmmaker, artist, anthropologist
A. Laurel Lawrence
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Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert
filmmaker, anthropologist
Andres Haye
researcher
Manuel Del Médico
composer, filmmaker
Phillip Gladkov
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Penelope Lindsay
plant biologist,musician
Karl Kaisel
filmmaker, artist, designer
Nora Long
documentary filmmaker,plant-lover,camera wizard
Elodie Freymann
primatologist + naturalist
Courtlin Byrd
artist,filmmaker
Hanae Utamura
visual artist,researcher,filmmaker
Magdalena Bermudez
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visual artist, filmmaker
E E Oliver
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Amelie Barbier
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Iyad Abou Gaida
co-founder, ecorove
Kyle Finnegan
documentary filmmaker, creative director
Anouk Phéline
filmmaker, researcher
Heather Andrews
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Shelbatra Jashari
visual+musical artist
Na'ama Keha
filmmaker
Justin Jinsoo Kim
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Daryna Mamaisur
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filmmaker, photographer
Lisa Walker
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Donny Bianchi
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artist
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Sidney Gordon
artist, cultural worker
Kym McDaniel
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Nina Cholet
director
Nicolas Queinec
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Zahid M. Ornelas
liquid student, filmmaker
Celine Caly
designer, filmmaker
Jenny Amdi Sørensen
filmmaker, photographer, storyteller
Peter Nauffts
filmmaker, archival researcher
Marley McDonald
filmmaker, animator, painter
Sébastien Robert
artist, researcher
Jiayi Chen
artist, projectionist, film archivist
Rani Messias
screenwriter, film director, cultural translator
Rafaella Costa
producer, founder
Rajani Mani
filmmaker
Iain Mitchell
filmmaker
Andrés Vázquez
writer, director
Andres Ramos
filmmaker, phd researcher
Lara Tabet
transdisciplinary artist, medical doctor
Michał Matuszewski
researcher, curator, essay filmmaker
Carleen Maur
professor, filmmaker
Sarah Keeling
filmmaker, artist
Thomas Pausz
media artist, researcher
Eliza Collin
film maker, researcher, producer
Allison Radomski
filmmaker & magic lanternist
Sandra Rozental
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Laís Sambugaro
director, filmmaker
Nicolau Araujo
writer-director
Nika Saravanja
filmmaker, director, author
Eshika Fyzee
filmmaker
Sarah Garrahan
filmmaker
Georgia Krause
documentary filmmaker, world enjoyer
Tania Hernández Velasco
film worker
Shalini Adnani
writer, director
Alyson Larson
filmmaker, producer
Michele Ferris-Dobles
filmmaker, researcher
Caroline Stokholm
architect
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filmmaker
Taira Malaney
filmmaker
Alexander Hahn
artist
Isabela Costa
filmmaker
2,024 people in 87 countries are making science on screen stranger, more personal and more honest than it was. Membership takes a minute and starts at $5 a month.
Science New Wave Manifesto.
The Science New Wave is characterized by its rejection of traditional scientific film conventions and stereotypes in favor of experimentation and personal expression.
The Science New Wave was established on August 26, 2016 in Lairoux, a commune in the Vendée department on the west coast of France.
During a town hall meeting, citizen scientists presented longitudinal data showing the devastating impact of human activity on the local bat population. To the surprise of many, these avid amateurs ended their talk with a short experimental film, revealing a new world from the perspective of an anguished bat and merging scientific research with surrealism.
Many (but not all) agreed on the vital importance of fusing science, the imaginary and cinema. One attendee decided to put pen to paper, drafting the early version of the manifesto.
The Science New Wave heavily draws inspiration from early cinema and the field of developmental biology.
The SNW Central Dogma is built on 6 fundamental traits yet, as any other living organism, it will keep evolving.
It ends with two typed lines of DNA sequence, the word Labocine, and the initials A.G.
