Ommatidia is an experimental tutorial on genetically manipulating the retina of fruit flies to alter signals from the eye to the brain. This hybrid documentary depicts the perspective of the neuroscientist and the fly as they meet eye to eye.
Credits
Created by Jaime Sunwoo and Sromana Mukherjee
Original Score by Gideon Broshy
Filmed and Animated by Jaime Sunwoo
Research by Sromana Mukherjee
Special thanks to Desplan Lab - Department of Biology - NYU and Sriivatsan G. Rajan This film was made possible by Imagine Science Films, Simons Foundation, Science New Wave, and Labocine.
This film was made as part of the 2024 Symbiosis initiative presented at the Science New Wave Festival XVII and supported by the Simons Foundation
Produced by Free Rein Projects