Sonja Baumel | 4mins | Austria | 2009 US PREMIERE A vision of the four layers of the (in)visible membrane: already existing skin bacteria, a communication layer, a slime mould and plants, and how theoretically this clothing could transmute into […]
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Dannan Breathnach | 2 min | USA | 2011 The path of true love never did run smooth… especially if you’re a milk bottle. Follow these star-crossed lovers from factory to fridge and beyond. SCREENING SCHEDULE Science for Nanos 2:00pm […]
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Andres Cota Hiriart | 6 min | Mexico | 2011 Shoot over the night sky of Mexico City upon landing. What is home? Where is home? SCREENING SCHEDULE Ciencias Cinematograficas 8:00pm Tuesday, October 18, 2011 indieScreen PRODUCTION CREDITS Director | […]
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Joris Clerté| 2 min | France | 2010 The traceologist’s speciality is to find traces of wear and tear on tools. Archeology experts explain how it is possible to reconstruct a past era from elements that an inexperienced person would […]
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Julian Hernandez | 15 min | Mexico | 2010 Cecilia, Alberto and Felipe are trapped because of an epidemic that has taken over the streets of a beach town. They wander alone in a desperate attempt to look for fresh […]
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Field Test | 2 mins | USA | 2011 Students at UW Madison spend their summer in the wetlab preparing for the 2010 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition. SCREENING SCHEDULE Controlled Experiment 8:00pm Monday, October 17, 2011 The Bell House […]
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Percy Smith | 1 min | USA | 1910 The Birth of a Flower is a very early example of time-lapse photography and one of the first films ever made, exploring a variety of plants as they burst into bloom. […]
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Boris Hars-Tschachotin | 6mins | Germany | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE Blank reproduces the sterile conditions of a genetic laboratory of molecular medicine. The room, the bodies and cells of the animals are subject to the strictest controls; everything has been […]
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Etsuko Uno & Drew Barry | 3 mins | Australia | 2010 WORLD PREMIERE An overview of the human mammary gland with a focus on the role of breast stem cells during pregnancy. SCREENING SCHEDULE Controlled Experiment 8:00pm Monday, October […]
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Christopher Abbas | 2 mins | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE Using archival footage from the Cassini Solstice Mission and a tune from the band Nine Inch Nails, a rather surprising — and atmospheric — experience awaits. Somewhere, something incredible […]
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Field Test | 1 mins | USA | 2011 High School students from Gaston Day School in North Carolina spend their summer in the lab preparing for the 2010 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition. SCREENING SCHEDULE Controlled Experiment 8:00pm Monday, […]
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Stephani Gordon | 10 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE Enter into the ultra-adventurous world of pilot-biologists chasing wild birds in the no-man’s-land north of the arctic circle. Their world is one of beauty and grit, humor and science. […]
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Kim Pimmel | 2 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE A mix of everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble […]
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Sophia Tintori | 2 min | USA | 2010 WORLD PREMIERE In this episode, Dr. Phil Pugh talks about studying jellyfish that cannot be collected in nets, and about his first times seeing live ones. These jellyfish are called siphonophores. […]
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Sophia Tintori | 2 min | USA | 2010 Here is a little plant that starts it’s life high up in the tree tops, where it can find more light than the dark understory of the rainforest. As it grows […]
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Sophia Tintori | 1 min | USA | 2010 A problem that all living things have — how long and thin DNA is, and how easy it would be to get it all tangled. SCREENING SCHEDULE Science for Nanos 2:00pm […]
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Ross Butter | 1 min | UK/Scotland | 2010 EAST COAST PREMIERE The art of ballet is performed by a collection of tutu-wearing dinosaurs in this short and simple, child-like animation. SCREENING SCHEDULE Science for Nanos 2:00pm Sunday, October 16, […]
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Daniel Gies | 3 min | USA | 2010 Small, Very Small, But When It Comes To Making Your Body Work It Is Big, Very Big. SCREENING SCHEDULE Science for Nanos 2:00pm Sunday, October 16, 2011 New York Hall of […]
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Jerry Rothwell | 78 min | USA | 2010 Donor Unknown is a documentary feature following the journey of JoEllen Marsh as she goes in search of the sperm donor father she only knows as Donor 150. SCREENING SCHEDULE Genetic […]
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg | 5 mins | United Kingdom | 2011 E. chromi is a collaboration between designers and scientists in the new field of synthetic biology. In 2009, seven Cambridge University undergraduates spent the summer genetically engineering bacteria to […]
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Mikey Please | 9 mins | England | 2010 Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to obsession […]
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Rakesh Chaudhary | 21 mins | India | 2010 An old man takes his grandson to witness a solar eclipse in this gorgeously rendered view of life in a small town in India. Mr. Pathak is a retired civil engineer […]
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Kirby Ferguson | 11 min | USA | 2011 Creativity isn’t magic. Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen. SCREENING SCHEDULE Avant-Garde Science 8:00pm Saturday, October 15, 2011 Anthology Film Archives PRODUCTION CREW Director | Kirby […]
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James Theophane | 2 min | USA | 2009 We reinterpret the Christmas tree and its role as the traditional focal point for a communal space. ‘Mobile Mobile’ is a six metre circumference interactive sculpture, and signature piece for the […]
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Joel Schumacher | 115 mins | 1990 | UK/Scotland Medical students bring themselves near death; their experiment begins to go awry. SCREENING SCHEDULE Suspended Animation 7:00pm Wednesday, October 19, 2011 CUNY Graduate Center PRODUCTION CREDITS Director | Joel Schumacher Writer […]
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Daila Huerta Cano | 26 min | Mexico | 2009 The story of nine parts of the body of persons who have suffered irrevocable changes during the year. Animations of body transformations – through growth, aesthetic or pathological changes – […]
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Federico Pardo | 5 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE The world’s oldest carrion beetle fossils were found in China and represent species that were alive 165 million years ago. Follow Margaret Thayer and Chenyang Cai as they work […]
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4 mins Geneticist in a laboratory. SCREENING SCHEDULE Controlled Experiment 8:00pm Monday, October 17, 2011 The Bell House […]
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1 min Vintage footage of the telephone. SCREENING SCHEDULE Avant-Garde Science 8:00pm Saturday, October 15, 2011 Anthology Film Archives […]
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Rob Seward | 2 min | USA | 2010 Four Letter Words consists of four units, each capable of displaying all 26 letters of the alphabet with an arrangement of fluorescent lights. The piece displays an algorithmically generated word sequence, […]
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Ian B. Johnson | 1 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE An audioscape journey around a Greenhouse. SCREENING SCHEDULE Controlled Experiment 8:00pm Monday, October 17, 2011 The Bell House PRODUCTION CREDITS Director | Ian B. Johnson Music | Tipsy […]
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Michele Famiglietti | 3 min | USA | 2011 A closer look at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment, outside the International Space Station, among the cosmic rays. SCREENING SCHEDULE Controlled Experiment 8:00pm Monday, October 17, 2011 The Bell House […]
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Denis van Waerebeke | 9 min | France | 2008 US PREMIERE The world food system is extremely complex. Trying to comprehend how farmers in Africa are impacted by decisions we make at the grocery store in the west – and […]
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2 mins Through the looking glass of Mexican scientists in the United States and around the World. SCREENING SCHEDULE Ciencias Cinematograficas 8:00pm Tuesday, October 18, 2011 indieScreen SCIENTISTS Gabriel Gasque Gabriel began his research in neuroscience at the National Institute […]
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Alberto Mar | 4 mins | Mexico | 2009 US PREMIERE Somewhere in the near future a man that could be identified as an astronomer scouts the night sky. Suddenly, he spots something strange and discovers a new planet. He […]
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Mathias Thery | 24 min | France | 2004 Talk to me about your research. Mathias Thery initiates us into the world of his scientific research through narration and representation. He accompanies his story with humor, showing that the life […]
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Graham & Nelson Talbot | 15 mins | Canada | 2011 Failed astronomer Theo meets struggling student Miles in this introspective look at the big picture and why giving up is never an option. SCREENING SCHEDULE Reaching Space 3:00pm Saturday, […]
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Philip Hunt | 24 min | USA | 2008 One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep and decides to take it home…even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole! SCREENING SCHEDULE Science for […]
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Vincent Fournier | 5 min | Japan | 2010 The Man Machine’ film features some of the latest robot technology interacting with humans and the built environment. SCREENING SCHEDULE Avant-Garde Science 8:00pm Saturday, October 15, 2011 Anthology Film Archives […]
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Jaco Von Dormael | 155 mins | 2009 | USA/Belgium EAST COAST PREMIERE Mr. Nobody, is a sci-fi drama directed by Jaco Van Dormael and stars Jared Leto and Diane Kruger. It begins in the year 2092 with Nemo (Mr. Nobody) as a […]
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Leandro Tadashi | 13 min | Brazil | 2010 NEW YORK PREMIERE Based on an indigenous tale from the Amazon Forest, a girl falls in love with the moon after learning how the stars were created. SCREENING SCHEDULE Reaching Space […]
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David Feinberg | 18 min | USA | 2010 WORLD PREMIERE Picture Perfect travels with photographer Vincent Fournier (whose work has been compared to the style of Jeff Wall and Stanley Kubrick) to the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida […]
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Monica Zope | 5 min | Italy | 2010 In just 4 minutes a group of scientists (active in the fields of protein motion and visual representation of cell biology) will lead you on a journey to discover an entire […]
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Jesse Zaninger | 2 min | USA | 2011 A follow up refraction experiment featuring the Alphabet spoken by the late GREAT Richard Pryor. SCREENING SCHEDULE Science for Nanos 2:00pm Sunday, October 16, 2011 New York Hall of Science PRODUCTION […]
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Chase Heavener | 5 mins | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE NASA released footage of The Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final launch from 4 cameras connected to the solid state rocket boosters. I thought it would be interesting to sync up […]
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Markus Kayser | 6 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. […]
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Felipe Aguilar | 8mins | Columbia | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE Spacefaring outlines the true story of the high tech Indian Space Program against the backdrop of a rural village that appears to be suspended in time. In the near future […]
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Stanley Milgram | 10 mins | USA | 1972 The City and the Self is a study of human relations in the city, based on psychological concepts formulated by Stanley Milgram. The City and the Self examines city dwellers’ perceptions […]
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Antoine Delacharlery, Léopold Parent, Lena Schneider, Thomas Thibault | 7 mins | France| 2010 US PREMIERE A whole new science. Using a subatomic resonance engine we generate an electromagnetic field capable of interfering with the space around us. SCREENING SCHEDULE […]
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Kevin Collins | 8 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE The Action of Attraction depicts entomology research that investigates the relationships between the genes, receptors, pheromones, behaviors, evolution, and ecology of moths and other insects. SCREENING SCHEDULE Genetic Attraction […]
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Catherine Chalmers | 2 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE We follow this colorful parade as the ants traverse the forest and enter their underground colony. They descend through a labyrinth of tunnels to the heart of their colony […]
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Andrew Legge | 20 min | Ireland | 2009 US PREMIERE A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the past. SCREENING SCHEDULE Avant-Garde Science 8:00pm Saturday, October 15, […]
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Sam Molleur | 3 min | USA | 2011 Impressive visual from artist Sam Molleur as he uses stop motion, miniature sets and rotoscoped character expression to create this awesome video for Miracle Parade’s ‘The Dying Physicist’. SCREENING SCHEDULE Closing […]
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Ryan Murdock | 2 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE Witness the last days of the Elm Tree in time-lapse heartfelt music video. SCREENING SCHEDULE Closing Night | Time Sensitive 8:00pm Friday, October 21, 2011 Symphony Space […]
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Andres Cota Hiriart | 3 min | Mexico | 2009 The Sixth Obstruction inspired by The Perfect Human by Jorgen Leth and based on The Five Obstructions by Lars Von Trier. What does it mean to be perfect, as one […]
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Amanda Tasse | 8 min | USA | 2010 Reality Clock is an experimental animated portrait of an elderly watchmaker as he struggles to accept the influence of early stage Dementia on his identity and sense of time. Shot in […]
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SCREENING SCHEDULE Closing Night | Time Sensitive 8:00pm Friday, October 21, 2011 Symphony Space […]
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Klemen Trupej | 2 mins | Slovenia | 2011 US PREMIERE Let me show you my world of the synthetic future. A fluorescent animated slideshow of reverie, which depicts a future with glowing trees, a cure for HIV, biological spaceships, […]
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Alex Pasternack | 25 min | USA | 2011 The Thorium Dream explores the growing grassroots movement in the United States behind the element thorium, and the powerful forces that could keep it buried in the dustbin of history. After the […]
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Andrew Bowler | 11 mins | USA | 2010 When Stillman discovers the secrets to time travel, his big discovery gets lost in the smallest details. SCREENING SCHEDULE Avant-Garde Science 8:00pm Saturday, October 15, 2011 Anthology Film Archives PRODUCTION CREDITS […]
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Field Test | 6mins | USA | 2010 US PREMIERE It’s clear, if you think about it very carefully, that it would be impossible to breed a goat that had spider silk protein in it. There’s no way that mutation […]
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Maria Torres | 10 min | Mexico | 2010 Two children begin a journey to see the stars with their sick grandfather, wondering if he will smile one last time. When a number of obstacles present themselves, the children realize […]
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Barry Gibb | 30 mins | USA | 2010 WORLD PREMIERE The human lifespan is increasing by two hours every day. But how much life is enough – 100 or 1000 years? Part science, part philosophy, Until is a journey […]
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Catherine Chalmers | 2 min | USA | 2011 WORLD PREMIERE We Rule is from “The Leafcutters” series – a project that includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture. It was filmed at Liquid Jungle Lab, a biological research station on […]
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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 […]
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Kate Miller and Lisa Coscino | 2 min | USA | 2010 Willem is 5 years old and has a lot on his mind! Take a quick journey through the eyes of a child as Willem explains why people should […]
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Anthony Vouradoux | 14 mins | Germany | 2011 US PREMIERE After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha 46, the cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with an extraordinary paradox. Unlocked from the mothership, Yuri begins his startling journey through space, […]
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