Fradique is an Angola filmmaker, born in Luanda in 1986.  He is notable as the director of the critically acclaimed films Alambamento, "Independência" and “Air Conditioner”. He attended the New York Film Academy (2006) and obtained his bachelor's degree in fine arts (directing) at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco (2010). His first feature film “Air Conditioner” had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Bright Fu...

Peter Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997 Galison was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; won a 1998 Pfizer Award (for Image and Logic) as the best book that year in the History of Science; in 1999 received the Max Planck and Humboldt Stiftung Prize, and in 2018, the Abraham Pais Award in the History of Physics. His other books include How Experiments End (1987), Einstein’s...

Meet Samantha, the AI Voice from the App Voice Aloud Reader. Are you too busy to read books, newspapers, or favorite websites? Or maybe you have health problems that make reading difficult? If so, then you must try this app. The app can read aloud any text document, e-book, website, or paper book. Voice Aloud Reader - text to speech (TTS) converts text to a natural sounding voice.

Naman Gupta is an award-winning director & writer. Originally from India, now based in Los Angeles. Diverse, inclusive and loves blending fiction with contemporary social issues so that his films can reach a wider audience and is into science and space.

Pamela is a Venezuela film and social research and public policy student at NYU Abu Dhabi interested in gender, migration, and systems of care. She is also interested in embodiment and the use of the body to access knowledge and produce knowledge.

Sarah's mission in life is to elevate our level of scientific conversation. Her latest film is the feature documentary THE INVISIBLE EXTINCTION, about the critical role of the microbiome in human health, featuring the research of scientists in the USA, Venezuela, China, Israel, and Switzerland. Sarah is a writer, director, and producer who is deeply passionate about using filmmaking and emerging media to advance public health goals for diverse audiences. She makes short videos for nonprofit o...

Omar Al-Nakib is a visual artist and poet. He has exhibited with Visual Therapy and Gallery BAWA as a painter, and his illustrations have appeared in Word For/Word, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Denver Quarterly, Blackbox Manifold, and Caesura. His poetry has been published in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Silver Pinion, the AUKuwait Review, and Poetics for the More-than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry & Commentary (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2020).

Artist, writer and filmmaker Zahra Al-Mahdi's work reveals the unintended impacts humans have on their societies and ecosystems. She is known for collage work using ink sketches layered over photographs, animation on live action and installations that deal with dissected anatomical figures that probe themes in science fiction, post-colonialism and post-structuralism.

Original footage of the typewriting process of the Science New Wave Manifesto. Music: Les Gymnopédies by Erik Satie

Arantxa Vazquez - Poesia en el Acto - En el Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.

Signe Baumane is a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 16 award-winning animated shorts but is best known for her first animated feature “Rocks in my Pockets”. The film covers a 100-year history of depression and suicide of women in her family, including herself. It premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2014, went on to over 130 international festivals and opened theatrically in the U.S. through Zeitgeis...

Jake grew up in Palo Alto, California but now considers himself a dedicated peripatetic, having spent much of the past decade wandering the globe. After graduating from Stanford University with degrees in Psychology and Film Studies, he began a career making short documentaries for nonprofits and social impact ventures working in the global south – his work has been featured on NYTimes.com, Wired, NPR, and MSNBC. In 2015, hungering to get to know a single community more in-depth, he mov...

Born in Quito, Ecuador. Pável Quevedo studied film in Argentina, where he specialized in directing. He studied music and piano in Quito. His first film, La Tola Box, will soon be premiered in movie theatres nationwide. He is also developing his first feature film, Samson, and his second feature documentary, Danzante del Destino, now in the post-production stage. He has directed several short films and received film and poetry awards. He wants to develop a visual language that represent...

Tim Grabham (AKA iloobia) is an award winning film maker who has produced still and moving image work independently for 30 years. Comprising of short films, animation, photography, illustration and installations, as well as documentary and long-form features, his work has been presented internationally at festivals, cinemas, online and galleries. Ongoing interests in his work include reconfiguring abandoned, decaying and orphaned celluloid material into complex collages with ambiguous fragmenta...

Beatrice is a developmental biologist and historian whose work explores how organismic form has been imaged and imagined in biology, art, and architecture from the 19th century to the present. She is particularly interested multicellularity, microscopy, and the pratices of scientific making and knowing. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and History of Science at Harvard University.

I dedicate my life to cinema. Sometimes horror, some times documentary, always into stories that demands deep deciphering.

Derek Dabkoski is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened at festivals around the world, including the San Francisco and Vancouver International Film Festivals. He completed his undergraduate degree from NYU despite a debilitating physical attack that left him permanently disabled. He recently achieved his MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in film and television production, where he pursued his dream of directing. With a passion for telling raw, personal stories, DERE...

Andres Rovira is a Cuban-American, LA-based filmmaker from Miami, whose writing/directing work spans films, music videos, and branded content. His scripts have placed in the 2020 Sundance Episodic Fellowship (Finalist), the 2016 Austin Film Festival (Finalist) and the Academy Nicholl Fellowship (Semi-Finalist). His short, “Noche Buena,” premiered at the Miami International Film Festival, was selected for a grant, and aired on PBS’s Latino Experience Showcase. In 2019, he cre...

Mauricio Sanchez Arias graduated from the National School of Cinematographic Arts of UNAM (ENAC-UNAM), formerly known as CUEC. He works primarily as a cinematographer and colorist. In parallel, he teaches the Cinephotography I workshop in Pohualizcalli, the Community Film and Photography School of Iztapalapa.

In 2018, Rodrigo Moreno entered the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográfico (CUEC), currently the Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas (ENAC), where he is working on his film thesis, specializing in animation. During 2020, he taught a film appreciation workshop for the Anáhuac Querétaro University. And he has taken 2D animation courses and workshops at Fantástico Encarnado and Escuela Escena.

Sofia El Khyari grew up in Casablanca. She moved to Paris to study cultural management, and learned animation by herself. She directed her first short film and then obtained a Master’s degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London. Her films have been awarded and screened at various international festivals.

Camille was born in Montreal to a Newfie father and a Trinidadian mother. She moved to Toronto as a teenager and now resides in Vancouver. She’s appeared in shows The Twilight Zone, Valley of the Boom, Motherland and The Big Sky.           Camille’s first film No. 2: Hush Little Baby, which she wrote, directed, produced and starred in, won Best Debut at the Discover Film Awards in London, where it went on to win the Craghopper’s Film Prize of &p...

My name is Danilo Trinidad Pérez-Rivera. I’m a Puerto Rican student-scientist unraveling networks: mostly neurons, sometimes people. I am particularly interested in the construction of theoretical frameworks through which the intricacies of neural circuits, cognitive development, and decision-making can be causally linked to pathological outcomes in mental health. My research interests have converged and diverged from the ends of chemistry to the depths of mathematics and the com...

Butterflies and moths comprise 12% of all species known to man (180,000 species!), and their seemingly endless biodiversity is visually translated on their wings through color and pattern variation. Incredibly, we humans share these specific wing shaping genes with butterflies, and actually these major molecular paintbrushes are found in numerous other creatures as well. 

Shot at two cutting-edge research labs which specialize in the evolution of butterflies and moths, BIopixel...

Making the invisible, visible! 

Images of butterfly wings at the microscopic scale are stunning, and at the nanoscopic scale they become otherworldly. 

The colorful images in the animated short Nanoscapes were taken with light and electron microscopes at magnifications up to 50,000x. From iridescent blues to vivid greens, butterflies produce colors by modulating how light is ...

Emi, a young girl with a stomach upset, enters the magical, microscopic world inside a zebrafish and aids the defenders of her cells to outwit the invading Shigella bacteria. At a time when there is increased anxiety around the viral attack on our cells by Coronavirus, this enchanting fairytale film decodes and celebrates the research happening in The Mostowy Lab at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In an accessible and engaging way it aims to convey cutting edge research ...

Set in a botanical glasshouse, Hybrid Terrains brings vegetal and human bodies into dialogue. With an audio created from electromagnetic signals emitted by plants, the work seeks a non anthropocentric approach to filmmaking. The film invites you to observe, sense and question our relationship with the vegetal world.

Chemical Somnia is a visual exploration of phase transition, fluid dynamics, and chemical reactions. Timelapse and high speed photography were used to capture these elemental relationships in less then a square inch of a petri dish.

Algae have helped shape life on Earth in ways we can barely imagine. But in his visually exquisite science fiction documentary ‘The Two Faces of Tomorrow’, film artist Patrick Hough gives us a speculative insight into this peculiar life form. Through the observations of an unseen scientist, we move from a Roman bathhouse to a high-tech laboratory where a team of scientists in space suits are developing bio-fuels and artificial food. The relationship between human and non-human lif...

Language is a visible organic material. It has the particular feature of being transparent and of allowing a passage through. Language as a material unfolds in its own environment between different states : as a magma or as crystallized shapes. Then, a prosody emerges and tries to define itself.

A stunning visual exploration of matter in various states of microbial transformation begs fundamental questions about our complicated relationships with other species.

Wrought begins with that universal moment of disappointment: despite all best efforts, our food has gone bad. But instead of turning away in disgust, Wrought zooms in, approaching the usually hidden world of decay with curiosity and stunning time lapse photography. Spoiling dinner leftovers bloom with successions of ...

A former cowboy turned janitor with an eighth-grade education, Milt Humason forms an unlikely friendship with astronomer Edwin Hubble and assists him at Mt. Wilson Observatory, a partnership that leads to their discovery that the universe is expanding.

An Animated Conversation with the late, great theoretical physicist & Nobel Laureate, Steven Weinberg. Excerpts from interviews recorded between 2020 & 2021.

Between the microscopic and the macroscopic, the most remote past and the future, this short film investigates the observation practices of the scientists that participated in the exhibition Synapse. Art and Science since Ramón y Cajal at the Museum of the Nobel Foundation in Sweden. The scientists interviewed are: Javier de Felipe, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Casiana Muñoz, and María Blasco.

A short film about existence and sentience. Satirical in tone, the film chronicles evolution and the development of the carnivore.

"Constant" is a journey through the social and political histories of measurement. For most of recorded history, the human body was the measure of all things. “Constant” asks what led measurement to depart from the body and become a science unto itself. The film explores three shifts in the history of measurement standardization, from the land surveying that drove Early Modern European land privatization, to the French Revolution that drove the Metric Revolution, to the ...

Inspired by my love of trees and wood, and wanting to experiment with a new way of animating, "Of Wood"  is a unique experimental stop motion film created by progressively carving images into a large round of wood, enhanced with wooden objects emerging from the wood. It examines the role of wood in daily life through the ages and comments on the impact of excessive consumerism on our lives.

A python slithers and curls over the abandoned control room of Chernobyl’s sister, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, its radioactive core an unleashed monster that will slither through time for a million years. From Etruscan ruins and sunken cities to the most modern of underground repositories, director Emilija Škarnulytė follows our attempts to bury the immortal. Addressing the epochal effects of nuclear technology on all levels, Burial follows the cycle of power, an eternal re...

My world was jolted by two shadow images: one, thrilling, the other terrifying.  After a years-long effort—with 200 other scientists—we made the first image of a black hole, its shadow of no return.  Then I fell into debilitating pain. A deadly shadow blot appeared on an MRI of my spine.  Faced with emergency surgery and no assurance of success, I sought comfort in memory images from the past and, from collaborative work that engrossed me: images of the whole visibl...

Burial is an intertwined section through the current entanglement of identities, spatial practices, infrastructures and geological resources.

Terrain Vague is a 16mm photo-roman, based on the images and accompanying log of a fictional female researcher who, over the summer of 2016, chronicles the development of a new private, university-based innovation center from the shell of a former color and coatings laboratory in a poor and working class Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood--an industrial hub that shuttered in the wake of the crisis of 2008.

In her investigations into the history of the site and its environs...

Quarries follows the mysteries surrounding prehistoric stone tools from Kenya alongside the neglected labor of stonemasons who paved the streets of Lisbon. The humble gesture of these artisans, stooped over the pavement, morphs into a confrontation with the hubristic act of monument building. For the artist’s brother, the struggle to regain the use of his hands after a serious injury transforms into a narrative about agency in the face of being forgotten, marginalized and deemed of no i...

During a cosmic event, a tree transmits a strange disease to a girl. Both organisms are linked by a mysterious bond through time until the moment of their death.

Ellie Ga is a New York City-born artist and writer. Her narrative based-videos and performances reflect a passion for multi-disciplinary knowledge exchange told through everyday conversations, poetic sidesteps and obsessive research. Her wide-ranging investigations address pressing social issues, often in unexpected contexts: from the submerged ruins of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria (Square Octagon Circle) and the charting of the quotidian in the frozen Arctic Ocean (The Fortunetellers...

A lonely couple downloads a new technology that allows them to unveil the spirit realm through their smartphone, only to discover that they aren’t as lonely as they thought.

A survivor without modern education, a military robot born for war, they met in the ruins after the destruction of civilization, but became the starting point of a new civilization. Human beings created poetry in the most difficult times of survival. Poetry has no meaning for survival. But what is the meaning of survival itself? Taking the doomsday wasteland as the cloak, exploring the meaning of life and civilization, is the soul of this story.

A demon enters the frequencies of a song as it's being recorded and possesses the musician, who vomits out the sound. The sound then sends the musician on a wild goose chase from the roof of her house to the city, farmlands, the desert and, finally, the beach—where she collapses from exhaustion. 

She makes her way back home, cools off, and grabs a glass of water. As she sips, she comes to a sudden realization, and spits it out. She takes out her bo...

A furious and silent hurricane is about to reach a village in the Latin American tropical forest. A grandmother and her grandson are elected to travel and give themselves as offerings. Sacred songs and an arduous walk revive the hope of the commune to survive the natural disaster.

Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.

A Perfect Storm is a landscape film or, more precisely, a landscape imprinted on the film's emulsion. The artist has used seeds, tiny composite flowers and other small elements of cultivated plants that grow in his garden and wild plant species gathered from a nearby nature reserve. The film consists of sequences that are intricately composed and parts that are completely 'self-organised'. As such plants appear not merely as inanimate objects but rather as characters who are expre...

When a mysterious light invades socially awkward Lila, she encounters its source: a cyborg who comes to remind her who she was in a past life.

Exposition of two different processes of forensic identification in exhumed bodies with signs of violence.

Churchill, Manitoba, is famous as an international destination for photographing polar bears. We’ve seen the majestic images and classic wildlife series captured here - but what do these bears see of us? Through a shift in perspective 'Nuisance Bear' reveals an obstacle course of tourist paparazzi and wildlife officers whom bears must navigate during their annual migration.

Patouille is a little creature who lives in harmony with the plants. With his friend Momo, he discovers the amazing features of plants.

On a remote coast of the Russian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.

In Natal, the Northeast of Brazil, the country is preparing to launch its first manned spaceship into space.
A couple lives with their two children near the space center, the husband is a mechanic while the wife is a cleaning lady, who dreams of other horizons.

The reality of beach snails is not that much different from human lives, filled with an intricate interplay of social interaction and solitude, curiosity about the world and its rigid rules, fleetingness of life and the resilience to go on.

She-wolf Naya, monitored on her journey from her birthplace in Germany through the Netherlands to Belgium, becomes more and more famous and visible – until it endangers not just her wildness, but her existence. 

When coming out to his traditional parents, Sid uses his time machine to reset the day trying to make sure everything goes perfect.

In the middle of the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous trans women from the Embera tribes. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in their unique world - an aesthetic and spiritual universe in which documentary and fiction merge into a transcultural narrative. Enchanted by the beauty and power of their jais (spirits), Aribada decides to join Las Traviesas in creating their own trans*futurist community.

Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born.

In 2019 an iron meteorite was filed to dust, stirred into cream, and fed to 36 people. Flis’s uterus was rife with tumours soon after. Their belly swelled as a fleshy block pushed its way out at astonishing speed. From the first poke of a finger, to WebMD, to x-rays, every diagnostic tool came up short. But Flis’s telling of it is rather different to the medical notes. The video asks about diagnosis, and how certain people’s testimony is dismissed as unreliable. From meteori...

As playful in its form and technique as it is thoughtful in its take on womanhood, this animated wonder by Quebec’s Marie Valade uses a woman’s surrealist journey to explore her love–hate relationship with her breasts, body, and femininity.

Cristobal returns with his family after an unsuccessful migration attempt. While fishing with his father in an industrialised area, his dreams and his body connect with the sea that gets sick day after day.

Superstar scientists Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser confront an international public health emergency - the loss of our ancestral microbes – while three patients with life-threatening diseases triggered by this disruption explore experimental treatments to save their lives.

Most people think germs (another word for microbes) are bad for us, but what if they’re mostly good and wiping out the ones inside us is creating a health crisis that threatens humanity&rsquo...

Born in Iran, raised in Iowa, and trained as a geneticist and cell biologist, Katayoun has been conducting research to better understand why some students share her love for biology, while others recoil from the subject. Part of her work suggests that biology courses must be contextualized and made relevant, especially for those students who don’t initially see biology as important to their everyday experiences. To promote this education reform, she has developed seminars, workshops and...

Steven Lawrence (Co-Director/Co-Producer) has produced three feature-length documentaries for director Michael Apted, including MARRIED IN AMERICA, a longitudinal doc about 9 couples married in 2001; THE FURIOUS FORCE OF RHYMES, about hip-hop as protest music around the world, and SARABAH, about a Senegalese rapper’s campaign to end female genital cutting. He co-directed the Vis à Vis interactive documentary series for PBS and most recently co-directed THE CAT RESCUERS about 4 an...

A Bolivian park ranger and a young Hong Kongese journalist risk their lives to go undercover and investigate a new, deadly jaguar trade that’s sweeping South America. Along the way, they grapple with questions of empathy, responsibility, and bridging a cultural gap to prevent the jaguar trade from spiraling out of control. Shuttling between the breathtaking biodiversity of Madidi National Park in Bolivia and the tense China-Myanmar border, TIGRE GENTE juxtaposes the tranquility and sple...

Elizabeth is a National Geographic Explorer and filmmaker whose work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine. A passion for wildlife and cuisine has led Elizabeth across seven continents, steeping her in rich anthropological experiences that have shaped her into the storyteller she is today. Elizabeth holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and has worked as a PhD research assistant for big cat and primate projects across Latin America. Elizabeth was...

Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa, four dandelion achenes rescued from nuclear explosions that destroyed the Earth, find themselves projected into the cosmos. After landing on an unknown planet, they start searching for a suitable soil to perpetuate their species. But they will have to overcome the elements, the fauna, the flora and the changing climate.

When Luanda is sinking, a grieving young state photographer is assigned to find an eccentric over-suspicious Cuban biologist who disappeared after she joined a secret expedition to find a new capital for Angola thirty years ago.

"When soil becomes ‘land’ it is inherently political; as ‘earth’ it prompts a consideration of the wider environment." (Katherine Earshaw) A teaspoon of soil contains more living organisms than people in the world: biological diversity makes terrestrial life possible. This film will take soil as its starting point, and ask us to see land and our engagement with it differently.

This project aims to utilise the idea of a teaspoon of soil as a met...

Scientists are on the cusp of a biomedical and industrial revolution to utilize the strongest material in the world: spider silk. The Gossamer Thread traces the DNA of orb-weaving spiders across the United States on a transgenic journey, from the woodlands of Florida, to goat farms in Utah, and medical labs in California, revealing the complexity of human intervention in the web of life.
 

Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera unfolds in 5 movements as we journey from cutting edge genetic engineering to the very origins of pig domestication 10 millennia ago, and back to the wild boars still inhabiting our forests.

This documentary and personal narrative is set to an original score by composer Bethany Barrett and presents an intimate account of the interspecies relationship at the heart of the science of xenotransplantation–specifically the genetic engineering o...

Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera unfolds in 5 movements as we journey from cutting edge genetic engineering to the very origins of pig domestication 10 millennia ago, and back to the wild boars still inhabiting our forests.

This documentary and personal narrative is set to an original score by composer Bethany Barrett and presents an intimate account of the interspecies relationship at the heart of the science of xenotransplantation–specifically the genetic engineering of pigs to...

Julio is dead. It's terrible news for OVNI Levante, the association of ufology aficionados that he ran. The death hits one its members, José Manuel, particularly hard. Julio and he had a secret project to change human destiny. Now he must carry on alone..

José Manuel and the other members of the ufology association Ovni-Levante meet weekly to exchange information about extraterrestrial messages and abductions. Julio, their leader, dies unexpectedly, leaving Jos&eac...

Writer and director Chema García Ibarra was born in Elche, Spain in 1980. He studied advertising and public relations at the Universidad de Alicante and, alongside music videos and commercials, also made short films. His ‘domestic science-fiction’ films have screened at festivals worldwide, including at the Berlinale, Sundance, San Sebastián, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Ann Arbor. He teaches ‘anti-filmmaking’ at the Escuela de Cinematograf&iacut...

Man tries to recreate himself by how he views himself, but this broken reflection only gets lost in the uncanny valley.

As her team digitises the traces of an unidentified creature, a palaeontologist mourns a loved one. A meditation on preservation, daughter of discovery and mother of loss.

Tropical fruits and vegetables radiate on a blizzard-struck street corner in Brooklyn, NY. A visual oxymoron, tugging at the edge of an interconnected and collapsing global order.

The "Carlo Colla & Figli Puppet Company" is one of the most ancient and famous puppet companies in the world. The Company's Atelier in Milan houses more than three thousand puppets. Each has a face, a body and specific characteristics, which makes it unique. "Diteggiatura" recounts, in a reverse chronology, a year spent in the Atelier of the Colla Company, following the rituals of a community called upon to accompany the life of anthropomorphic objects.  The f...

When a disillusioned woman is implicated in the disappearance of a lonely aging scientist, she must convince the police that hope has the power to bridge dimensions.

On an estate, Sadia engages in a mysterious traffic. Arthur, a friend of hers, finds out what she is hiding. He will have to make a choice...

The world is about to end. Maya is forced to go home to the province of Zambales. There, she confronts her childhood house that terrorizes her as frogs rain outside.

In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary

In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes butterflies.

In this cavalcade of cameos, the souls of celebrities are ensnared in robot bodies and forced to be at the beck and call of a keeper obsessed with the fictional personas that made them famous.

A short animation explaining the condition of Aphantasia and its subsequent impact on creativity.

This is a satirical review of our times. Suzi doll is an ego-warrior. My online avatar, marching to the algorithms of social media. She is lit by temporary outrage. A trending indignation. A passion that is fashion. A politics of the popular. Her activism is abstract. Her help is hypothetical. We know many girls like Suzi, and many times we are her: vacuous virtual voices, echoing injustices.

If the Moon could speak, what would it say?

A commercially-driven, international Space Race has propelled us to this moment in the 21st century: within a few years, the Moon’s surface may be subject to permanent human occupation, its resources aggressively mined for profit, and its ancient nature-spaces polluted by private industry. Do we want to stand by silently as such irreparable damage is caused to our sister satellite? What if we actually listened to what the Mo...

"Here we teach you to stand in love, rather than fall in it" 

PRAGMA is an off-beat romantic comedy, set in a Post Graduate Partnering Programme, led by the world's leading practitioner in sustainable love. We follow our protagonist Willow on a series of hilariously intense compatibility assessments lead by Dr Francis (Nick Mohammed) with an onslaught of outrageous suitors. She is left caught between a rock and a hard place asking herself the ultimate question; sh...

Nothing really survives here. The bottom is so deep that no light ever reaches it. Very few boats go through. It is unknown when the falls will take place. This experimental documentary portrays a space object and its fall into the darkness of a space cemetery. A woman scientist reveals her attachment to this object and the absence of images documenting this mysterious place. As a reverse sci-fi journey, this essay mixes real and fictional archives to guide us, like a stalker, to the outskirt...

After losing his mother to illness and his best friend to an unexpected move, a young boy discovers a crashed spaceship and makes a new friend with awesome powers (although she does need a little help with her earthly social skills). Together, they embark on a zany, fun-filled adventure while taking on the bad guys and helping Maika find her way home.

Ham Tran is a Vietnamese American film writer, editor, and director. In his films, stories gone untold too long are unraveled, voices kept silent too long are heard. They are the stories of the Vietnamese boat people and the survivors of education camps, and they are not easy to tell. Tran found his way to do so through laughter.

Conceived as a way to interrogate processes of neo-colonialism, and highlighting the alienating effects of technological progress, Jake Wachtel's KARMALINK is a mind-bending tale of reincarnation, artificial consciousness, and the search for enlightenment. 

In near-future Phnom Penh, the rich and privileged are augmented with nanotech, and new skyscrapers crowd the skyline. In Tralok Bek, a tight-knit community threatened with forced eviction, 13-year-old Leng Heng is havin...

Jake grew up in Palo Alto, California but now considers himself a dedicated peripatetic, having spent much of the past decade wandering the globe. After graduating from Stanford University with degrees in Psychology and Film Studies, he began a career making short documentaries for nonprofits and social impact ventures working in the global south – his work has been featured on NYTimes.com, Wired, NPR, and MSNBC. In 2015, hungering to get to know a single community more in-depth, he mov...

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The fourth feature-length work by Simon Beaulieu, this film essay plunges viewers into a subjective sensory adventure—a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. White Noise transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization in the era of climate change and eco-anxiety into a visceral aesthetic experience.

The global problem of light pollution is growing exponentially every year, but we have not found a real solution to solve it yet. The problem that negatively affects the lives of animals and plants, the work of astronomers, but most of all the health of each of us, although we are not aware of it, yet.

A purple and orange fluid spreads in volutes in the maritime estuary of the St. Lawrence. Between visual ballet and lyrical flights, Release plunges us into an enigmatic and sensory experience.

“[…] ‘alles Nahe werde fern,’ everything near becomes distant. Goethe was referring to the evening twilight. Everything near becomes distant. It is true. At nightfall, the things closest to us seem to move away from our eyes. So the visible world has moved away from my eyes, perhaps forever.” Jorge Luis Borges, “Blindnes,” in Seven Nights, New Directions, 1984, p. 1215. In 2006 my friend Xiaoxin caught an eye disease and, from that moment on, began l...

Off Power starts with an urban development analysis of Hong Kong Island though the lens of its electric infrastructure. But the documentary-like tone slowly shifts to science-fiction. A mysterious phenomenon forces its electricity supply to be cut off. Therefore, Hong Kong is plunged into total darkness.

Celluloid film is reconfigured into a graphic musical score, with obscure narratives emerging as the film is reanimated.

35mm, 16mm, std 8mm, super 8mm and 9.5mm gauge films are hand edited, glued, taped and scraped together into one continuous 6 meter collage, before digital stop motion brings the material back to life in its new incarnation.

'Cinegraffic Score' continues an ongoing interest in reconfiguring abandoned, decaying and orphaned celluloid material into...

A dark voyage into one of the most contaminated bodies of water in the United States. In New York City, a Superfund cleanup is now underway, unearthing the toxic sediment of ‘black mayonnaise' at the bottom of the Gowanus Canal.

In an evicted apartment, a ghost-like presence remembers its luminous past and its progression towards its current state of decay. It yearns to be what it once was.

This audiovisual essay advocates imagination through a travelogue of constructed and anonymous landscapes. It is a note about the future. Narratives that intertwine in the interstices between the visual, the auditory, and the expressed, speak about loss, exploration, presence, vigilance, responsibility, struggle and freedom.

A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms. Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea.

By weaving together different cinematic textures, the short film Aralkum re-imagines the dried-up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.

Ants, earthworms, bees, butterflies and woodlice are the heroes of this animated short. From the drawings they have made, a group of children tell us about the development, the places of life, and the roles that these insects have within the ecosystem of which they are a part.

The director Félix Lamarche questions our relationship with the St. Lawrence River during the winter. Aboard the Amundsen, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker, we follow passionate scientists who explore the mysteries of an inaccessible nature. Combining the landscapes of the ice floe and the invisible movements of underwater life, the film takes us on a documentary journey to the heart of this still little known river.

In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial -- only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate decade-long journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line ...

Lisa and her partner Guy Mossman run LA-based, Vox Pop Films, a production company specializing in non-fiction content and commercials. She has lived with type 1 diabetes for 30 years, for about as long as she’s worked in film and TV. Lisa has produced a variety of films and programs for Sony Pictures Classics, HBO, A&E, PBS, Lifetime, Discovery, MTV, TLC, and the CBC. She has produced for acclaimed directors Jonathan Demme, Michael Apted, Julie Taymor, and Lisa F. Jackson, among ot...

A love letter to cinema, shot across the US, Iran, Chile, China and Thailand, by seven of today's most vital filmmakers. New life in the old house. A breakaway, a reunion. Surveillance and reconciliation. An unrecognizable world, in the year of the everlasting storm.

Years after the death of my grandmother Anita, I inspected the old building where she and my grandfather Arnoldo worked all their lives as printers. Among offset machines, accounting notebooks and paper envelopes smelling of mothballs, I found thousands of photographs and hundreds of home movies. The images not only revealed their secret profession as amateur filmmakers, but also related a line of painful family tragedies that marked the destiny of their existence.

I dedicate my life to cinema. Sometimes horror, some times documentary, always into stories that demands deep deciphering.

Helena is a 17-year-old student in Finland. Her father is Swedish, and her mother is originally from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, who live in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. On a recent trip there, Helena participates in the traditional Uyantza Raymi cultural festival, and meets with Kichwa leaders who ask her to deliver a message to the world — Kawsak Sacha, or ‘Living Forest,’ an innovative concept in conservation, in which the jungle is considered to be a living bei...

Eastern white pines submerged under the waters of a hydroelectric reservoir on unceded Innu territory transform into flames. This exploration between water and fire illustrates our current climate emergency through multiple stories about the relationship between a community and it's land.

Eriberto is a photographer, musician and activist who began making films in his twenties, when he began to document and tell the story of the defense of the jungle following the incursion of a state-backed oil company and the military in his territory.

Life on Earth begins and ends with Greenland. Researcher Minik Rosing’s landmark discovery of the first life contrasts with the melting ice masses in Ivalo Frank’s tribute to her beautiful homeland. 

Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua. His discovery predated all previous traces of life by over 300 million ye...

Ivalo Frank, born in Greenland to Danish parents, has lived in several countries and now resides in Berlin and Copenhagen. Holding a MA in Philosophy and Social Science from Lund University, she works as an artist and visual anthropologist.

INTO THE ICE is a journey of discovery to the vast masses of ice and the secret of our future that the ice harbouring. Director Lars Ostenfeld accompanies three of the world’s leading glaciologists on pioneering scientific expeditions to and INTO the Greenland ice sheet. Cool and hardworking Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, sensitive and politically engaged Jason Box, and daring and fearless Alun Hubbard are all working to collect new crucial data that can help us answer some key questions of our ti...

Director Lars Ostenfeld takes us in an awe-inspiring cinematic adventure on and into Greenland’s ice sheet, with three leading glaciologists Alan Hubbard, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Jason Box, each dedicated to understanding the scale of the climate crisis and its implications for the future.

At the age of six, Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with leukemia and the lives of her and her parents were suddenly thrust into uncertainty. Through bracingly honest interviews and home videos, Of Medicine and Miracles details her family’s experience bouncing from hospital to hospital, trying to stay hopeful amidst hopelessness, and their fateful correspondence with a doctor whose research could hold the key to her survival. But time is of the essence. 

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Ross Kauffman is the Academy Award winning director, producer, cinematographer and co-editor of Born Into Brothels, which won the Oscar® for Best Documentary 2005 as well as the Emmy for Best Documentary 2005. The film’s accolades include National Board of Review Best Documentary 2004, LA Film Critics Best Documentary 2004 and the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award.  With Katy Chevigny, Ross co-directed E-Team, an award-winning NetFlix feature documentary about Human Ri...

A Letter from Yene emerges from conversations with the community in the seaside town of Yene, Senegal, where Diawara lives for part of the year. The area was traditionally and primarily occupied by fishermen and farmers but has in recent decades been besieged by coastal erosion and uncontrolled urbanisation. Fish have become scarce and the pirogues, traditional fishing boats, cannot go far enough into the sea, so their owners have turned to new occupations. Modern fishing requir...

A young indigenous Bunong woman and her older brother spend one last day in their rural village in northeastern Cambodia, before an impending move to the capital city in search of a more prosperous life.

Manthia Diawara was born in Mali, West Africa. He is a distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University. Manthia Diawara is a prolific writer and film-maker. His essays on art, cinema and politics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, LA Times, Libération, Mediapart and Artforum. He is the author of two acclaimed memoirs: In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 2000) and We Won’t Budge: An African in the World (Basic Books, 2008). H...

The zoo in Salzburg, Austria is open to visitors 365 days a year. In the spring of 2020, when the first Covid lockdown brought life almost to a standstill, the zoo had to close its doors to the public for the first time in its existence. Like actors in a theater, it is the animals at a zoo that attract the audience. Unlike actors the animals don’t play roles. They are just being themselves and their home transforms into a stage every day. When the paying visitors fail to appear because ...

Andreas Horvath is an award winning filmmaker and photographer.  He was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1968 and studied photography in Vienna and multimedia-art in Salzburg. Horvath´s films premiered at festivals in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam or Amsterdam. They won best film awards in Karlovy Vary, Chicago, Haifa, Orenburg or Minsk. He is a recipient of the Max Ophüls Prize, and the Outstanding Artist Award of the Austrian Ministry of Culture. Horvath’s film Helmut...

Set in a dystopian landscape, SCALES is the story of a young strong-willed girl, Hayat, who livesin a poor fishing village governed by a dark tradition in which every family must give onedaughter to the sea creatures who inhabit the waters nearby. In turn the sea creatures arehunted by the men of the village.

Saved from this fate by her father, Hayat is considered a curse on the village and grows up anoutcast. Nevertheless, she does not surrender to this fate and fights for a place ...

Argentinian poet Fabian Casas wrote that everything which rots forms a family. There are two families in this film, each mirroring the other, but time is not there to orchestrate a decomposition. When things end abruptly and unintentionally, they leave a void that resembles a cliff; a movement suddenly cut, like jumping off a spinning carousel and finding the stillness of the ground profoundly disorienting.

This is the exact feeling produced by VIDA COMIENZA, VIDA TERMINA. A man bui...

Born in 1978 in Mexico City. 2002 Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences. During the two-year master's degree at the American Film Institute in Directing, he received the "Filmanthropy Fundation" award and the 'Daniel Petrie' scholarship. With his first feature film MACHO (2010), he won 'Best Micro-Budget Film' at the Raindance Film Festival in London. His short film MAN IN A ROOM premiered in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival and was part of the official selection of the Cler...

The Italian coastal town of Rosignano is known and loved for its extremely white beaches and intensely blue sea. From far and wide, camera crews and tourists come to enjoy its beauty. But these extraordinary features are the result of decades of pollution by a plant belonging to the Solvay company, which produces soda ash, or sodium carbonate.

This unorthodox and creative film shows how the chemical company has brought not only pollution but also much wealth to the community. In sta...

Chloé Malcotti lives and works in brussels. She is a teacher at the ERG (Ecole de recherche graphique) and she is the co-founder of the curatorial project Level Five Blue Screen with Emma Van Der Put. She is now starting a new video project within and with the city of Seraing in Belgium. The latter will be part and will be shown during the next edition of the Europalia festival in Brussels. In 2017, she completed the making of H-H, a feature film that tells the story of the Medvedkine ...

Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker col...

Another Presence recounts the unique and often curious experiences of people living with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the third most common form of dementia in the UK. A multi-sensory condition that can cause dream-like symptoms, it’s a condition like no other. Told through the testimonies of those living with DLB, the film explores the surreal and lesser known effects of dementia, compelling us to question how our brains function and to what extent we can trust our senses.

Cell Worlds is a journey to the heart of the microscopic living world. It is an unprecedented discovery of a hidden biodiversity: our cells. A journey of introspection and emotion to discover unsuspected microscopic forms, colors and behaviors. Migrations, hunts, symbioses and even communications, who would have thought that the infinitely small was so grandiose? The exploration of these worlds is accompanied by a poetic narration, supported by an original music specially composed for the occ...

In the courtyard of the Air Bel primary school in Marseille, during recess, the boys take up much more space than the girls to play football. The girls have had enough! They decide to mobilize, and a team of reporters goes out into the field to meet the students to find out what actions have been put in place...

The father of neuroscience Santiago Ramón y Cajal wakes up one day with magnified vision.

Based on the short story "The Corrected Pessimist" by Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Voice over : Carlos Bardem / Brain Images by Jeffrey Lichtman / Animation by Shiv Kachiwala

The Great Refractor, a collaboration with Irish poet and neuroscientist Laurence O’Dwyer, charts the undulating terrain of our attempts to understand the world through both scientific and poetic inquiries. The film contrasts histories of mapping, visualizing and territorializing with contemporary practices centered on sounding, listening and collective resonation. The film models a ‘refractive’ method of narration and authorship, one that seeks out possible transformations a...

Distant lights reveal the outline of a city. Illuminated ships cross the water with sleeping people on board and the night appears to become liquid.

The sower of stars wakes them and travels with them through the city. They talk about this and that – and say goodbye to everything.

The Sixth People’s Hospital is one of the biggest in Shanghai. Its corridors are filled with medical staff, patients and families whose lives have been turned upside-down. A series of interconnecting stories paint a picture of China as it is today, where hypermodernism meets cultural tradition. Confronted with life’s ups and downs, the sensitivity and sense of humour of the Chinese people emerges when least expected, helping them to find a sense of personal balance.

Chinese-French director Yé Yé visited the No 6 People's Hospital in Shanghai and followed a series of protagonists, including both patients and doctors. In a sensitive, but not sentimental, way, she shows the different hardships of these individuals. Not only does she give a valuable insight into the Chinese health system, but she also portrays these people’s particular social behaviours and attitudes towards life. We talked to the director about her approach to the topic ...

The unconventional documentary “O” exposes the intriguing fascination for the Egg. 

O is set in the twentieth century, when the German ornithologist Max Schönwetter devotes himself to his life’s work: the scientific handbook of the egg. While he frantically collects and studies 19.206 eggs and corresponds with ornithologists, oologists, expedition members, museum staff, collectors, traitors and soldiers to expand his knowledge, the Second World...

Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions, documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural world. Director Sara Dosa and the filmmaking team fashion a lyrical celebration of the intrepid scientists’ spirit of adventure, drawing from the Kraffts&rsqu...

Sara Dosa is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated director and Peabody award-winning producer whose interests lay in telling character-driven stories about the human relationship to ecology and economy. Her most recent project, FIRE OF LOVE, premiered at the Sundance film festival in 2022 and will be theatrically released and broadcast by NatGeo.

Derek Dabkoski enrolls in a year long,  double blind medical study of the effects of modified stem cell surgery to treat traumatic brain injuries in the hopes he might regain the function lost after the brutal mugging that left him partially paralyzed on his right side. What he discovers, ultimately, is that his commitment to improving his quality of life, shows him he has the strength to help his wife Nadia attain her US residency and raise their newborn daughter Carmen. 

Derek Dabkoski is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened at festivals around the world, including the San Francisco and Vancouver International Film Festivals. He completed his undergraduate degree from NYU despite a debilitating physical attack that left him permanently disabled. He recently achieved his MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in film and television production, where he pursued his dream of directing. With a passion for telling raw, personal stories, DERE...

Mike fails a CAPTCHA and now must prove that he is human.

Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New Wave.

Two bears are hungry in NYC. Hungry for salmon. Follow Big Bear and Little Bear's respective expeditions through the city in search of a scrumptious meal. From lavish fine dining to lively food carts – through the simple act of eating – the relationship between bears and salmon enables the health of the entire ecosystem.

Film created as part of the Symbiosis 2022 competition during the 15th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival around the theme of the Science New ...