2024 | United States | Experimental

Ommatidia

  • English 5 mins
  • Director | Jaime Sunwoo, Sromana Mukherjee
  • Writer | Jaime Sunwoo, Sromana Mukherjee

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

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Sromana Mukherjee
DIRECTOR
Jaime Sunwoo
DIRECTOR