Archival Footage

Cristina de Middel | 5 min | South Africa, Spain | 2012 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE SYNOPSIS In 1964, still leaving the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first african on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race. Only a [...]

Jim Lo Scalzo | 3 min | USA | 2012 WINNER: 2012 IMAGINAL DISC VISUAL SCIENCE AWARD, 5th ANNUAL ISFF SYNOPSIS Deep in the desert of southern California sits one of the worst environmental sites in America—a former tourist destination that has turned into a toxic soup: the Salton Sea. The sea was born by [...]

Alex Pasternack | 20 min | USA | 2011 SYNOPSIS The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world’s largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the particle and its [...]

Kirby Ferguson | 16 min | USA | 2012 SYNOPSIS Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren’t so tidy. They’re layered, they’re interwoven, they’re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality… the [...]

RETROSPECTIVE Roman Vishniac | 3 mins | Russia/USA | 1967 SYNOPSIS A silent tour of Roman Vishniac’s laboratory. SCREENING SCHEDULE TBA PRODUCTION CREDITS DIRECTOR’S BIO Roman Vishniac Roman Vishniac (1897 – 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Vishniac [...]

Minette Mangahas | 3 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE SYNOPSIS Filmed through a microscope, this piece superimposes footage from Anna May Wong’s performance in the silent film “Piccadilly” (1929) unto a magnified strand of my hair. The film sampled is a scene from “Piccadilly” (1929). Anna May Wong plays a dishwasher in the [...]

Jack Truman | 3 min | USA | 2012 WORLD PREMIERE SYNOPSIS PEANUT MAN is a documentary short film about the story of a man born in slavery, that revolutionized the world with the peanut. George Washington Carver was the first known American Black Scientist. He discovered and invented over 300 uses for the peanut; [...]

Michele Famiglietti | 4 min | Italy | 2012 WORLD PREMIERE SYNOPSIS From the discovery of cosmic particles 100 years ago by Victor Hess, until the last experiments in space through vintage images, this film introduces the International Conference SpacePart12 to be held in early November in Geneva on the scientific research in this field. [...]

Alex Pasternack | 13 min | USA | 2012 SYNOPSIS Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them. He suffered no fools, and though he would [...]

Adela Pickles | 1:30 min | United Kingdom | 2009 When I Am 18 is an animated short film featuring the drawings and voices of sisters Maja, 8, and Lily, 5, from the UK. SCREENING SCHEDULE Science for Nanos 2:00pm  Sunday, October 16, 2011 New York Hall of Science PRODUCTION CREDITS Drawings and Voices | [...]