2009

2000: a documentary science fiction Andrey Paounov \| 7 mins \| Bulgaria A black & white celluloid sci-fi film in retro style for a new world in which hand in hand man and robot would be building a better life.
Chances Are Josh Kameyer \| 13 min \| USA When a probability geek loses a $20 bill with a girl’s phone number on it, he tries to calculate where the bill, and his chances for love have ended up.
So Far and Soar Jocelyne Chaput \| 11 min \| Canada A portrait of a woman and the invisible connections that fill her world, leaving her with nothing to grasp until a solid connection is made.
After Tomorrow Emma Sullivan \| 15 min \| UK In this psychological suspense, James returns to the village of his estranged wife, and grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave.
Les Outils Simon Laganiere \| 8 min \| Canada Seeing his faithful friend quietly losing the battle against the disease, Jean- Pierre doesn’t let things go. Knowing that his friend is a true believer of the Catholic religion, he decides to invent an appearance of the Virgin Mary.
Problems Mike Paterson \| 8 min \| United Kingdom Life as a theoretical physicist can be tough, particularly when your brand new $6 billion super-collider breaks down.
Dharini Anupama Pradhan \| 21 min \| USA In the aftermath of a tragic accident, a smart, scientifically inclined teenage girl struggles to redefine her understanding of nature’s forces.
Inside Me Gintas Tirilis \| 4 min \| Canada Using cutouts, drawing, hand-held anima- tion, and voiceover, Tirilis takes viewers on a tour through the inner workings of his bodily functions – from the bugs living in his entrails to the computer in his brain.
Extropy Jonathan Sanden \| 16 min \| USA A geneticist discovers the key to stopping the aging process.
Ginger Nick Rutter & Dr Helen Cooper \| 7 min \| UK Comedian Paul Smith gets back to his red-haired roots and explores the upside of his genealogy.
In Search of Memory Petra Seeger \| 95 min \| Germany “Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,” says neuroscientist Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on the physiology of the brain’s storage of memories.
The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil Joel Garber \| 17 min \| USA A boy meets girl… boy gets shot in thehead… boy turns to God short film.Inspired by a true story.
Parallelostory Kelly Meador & Daniel Elwing \| 3 min \| USA Spend a couple minutes in the multiverseand you may find it comfortable enoughto participate in your own Parallelostory,which is just hip meta-universe slangfor “parallel love story”.
Five Graeme Hawkins \| 3 min \| UK The five senses, through the eyes and imagination of a young boy.
6ft. in 7min. Rafael Del Toro \| 14 min \| USA A short dark comedy about Rajeev Reddi, an East Indian guy, who has always has been surrounded by death. Today, on Rajeev’s 18th birthday, his parents will finally tell him why.
Dreams of a Scientist Yaron Bar \| 2 min \| Israel What do scientists dream of?
Abigail Emily Yoshida \| 13 min \| USA A teenage girl disappears under mysterious circumstances only to become an international icon overnight. When her best friend goes looking for her, she must navigate environments both real and virtual to find out what her disappearance means not only to their friendship, but to all of society.
Coagulate Mihai Grecu \| 6 min \| France Absence, presence and aquatic distortions in this choreography of fluids, mysterious forces twist the physical laws and affect the behavior of living beings in purified spaces.
The Incident at Tower 37 Chris Perry \| 11 min \| USA Day in and day out the lone steward of a water processing station monitors the tower’s activities, never realizing that the tower is slowly destroying an entire ecosystem. When two unexpected guests arrive, the tower’s operator learns the high cost of his ignorance.
Improvisations No. 2 Fred Viola \| 3 min \| USA A turning ritual under the West Side Highway through the ’technological’ dilating eye.
The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 Chema García Ibarra \| 6 min \| Spain Robots send messages via telepathy to one man about the destruction of Earth and how he is the only person who can save it.
Skylight David Baas \| 4 min \| Canada A mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.
Skylab Mark Landsman \| 12 min \| USA It’s the summer of 1979 and 12 year-old Benj Handle has plenty to worry about – his mom’s about to get remarried, and a 90-ton chunk of NASA space trash is heading right for his house.
Malice in Wonderland: The Red Queen Theory Ed Watkins \| 5 min \| USA Sometimes, unexpected guests can very quickly become pests. What happens when you ask them to leave?
The MisInvents of Milo Weatherby William Whirity \| 23 min \| USA When young inventor, Milo Weatherby, accidentally creates a time machine, he and his best friend Levi set out on an adventure through time.
Killers of the Earth Jeff Bruno \| 2 min \| USA Two delightful aliens demolish planets for a living, and their next assignment is the earth.
Wormhole Chasers Gregory Zymet \| 4 min \| USA According to the logarithmic map of the universe, the poles are aligned—which can only mean one thing: a wormhole is about to open in the corner of Marjorie Adam’s apartment.
Universal Superkinetics Jackson Adams \| 11 min \| USA A high school freshman’s approach to a girl he likes is mirrored in a cause and effect relationship during a presentation of his science project; a rube goldberg machine.
Psych Out Tim Pyle \| 5 min \| USA Does the Helix Nebula look like a human eye… and why do we think we see wellknown objects in nebulous images from space? An astronomer and his therapist clash over the issue in this comedic but educational animated short.
Leonardo Jim Capobianco \| 10 min \| USA Leonardo da Vinci and his dream of flight. An allegory for the creative muse.
The Clone Returns Home Kanji Nakajima \| 110 min \| Japan Human cloning is no longer science fiction, but a reality. Technology is such that cloned human’s minds can be implanted and completely merged with the memories of their forbears.
Naming Pluto Ginita Jimenez \| 13 min \| United Kingdom Naming Pluto is a heartfelt account of an extraordinary event in astronomical history and an inspirational gem for youth audiences.
Animated Minds Andy Glynne \| 10 min \| England Real testimony from survivors of mental illness, combined with engaging and sometimes humorous visuals, to enter the minds of the mentally distressed.
The Moth and The Firefly Daniel Stedman and Aron Epstein \| 5 min \| USA A moth goes on a journey to find new light during a New York City blackout and finds an unlikely friend.
PCR Rap Zachary Charlop-Powers \| 4 min \| USA Biochemistry as you’ve never experienced it before: The Science Rapper makes you feel as if its your first time replicating DNA.
MEPE Claire Bardet \| 7 min \| France Investigation around killings of unusual animals by a strange private detective named Dick Mipy. We sought to better understand the evolutionary patterns of MEPE in mammals and when and how its functional regions were acquired during evolution.
Lab Waste Eva Amsen \| 4 min \| USA A brief look at waste byproducts of life science research.
The Exquisite Corpse of Science Tim Jones, Arko Olesk, Graham Paterson \| 9 min \| UK What happens when a scientist, a professional communicator, and the public are asked to think about what is important in science today… AND THEN DRAW IT? All is revealed in this film.
A Micrometer From Here Amit Zakai \| 6 min \| Israel A comic surrealistic short movie measuring daily life in single units and multiplying them by powers.
Natural Selection A.J. Korkidakis \| 10 min \| Canada An eccentric old man solves the mystery of time travel, but cannot unravel the secrets of natural selection…
Quantum Quest Dan St. Pierre & Harry Kloor 45 min \| USA Dave (Chris Pine), a photon who lives in the sun, is drawn into an epic galactic battle between Good: The Core (William Shatner) and Evil: The Void (Mark Hamill) which will determine the fate of humanity and the universe in this CGI aimated 3D/2D large format adventure.
Magnetic Movie Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhard \| 5 min \| UK The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic everchanging geometries.
Decoding Alan Turing Christopher Racster \| 17 min \| UK Turing was a brilliant Mathematician, Logician and Cryptographer. A Cambridge graduate, who was fundamental to cracking the Nazi’s Enigma Code during WWII, and created what is hailed by some as the first modern computer.
Hairytale Lisa Forrest \| 7 min \| UK Saving the world, one hair at a time.
Babbage Claire Barker \| 15 min \| UK Charles Babbage, the man who invented the first computer and failed to build it.
The Ecstasy and Agony of Planet X Chas Miller \| 13 min \| USA For 76 glorious years, Pluto remained a proud member of our solar system. Then, in 2005, a challenger to the mantle of the true ninth planet was discovered.
Big Bang Day Mike Paterson \| 8 min \| UK Adam, a PhD student at CERN, introduces us to life at the world’s largest physics lab and the excitement surrounding ‘Big Bang Day’.
What’s the Matter at CERN? Christopher Butcher \| 16 min \| Canada This short, about the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, features interviews with leading physicists and science experts.
Planes Lapse Armando Accardo \| 2 min \| Italy The premise in recording this time lapse was to capture numerous airplane trails, to see how their vapor would display when recorded at 1 frame per second.
Sizzle Randy Olson \| 84 min \| USA Olson sets out to make a global warming documentary, but first he must confront his cameraman, a global warming skeptic.

Video Pick of the Week

Dr Andrew Gillis explains how an elephant fish embryo lives off a large yellow yolk sack for 7 to 10 months before hatching out as a fish.

Under the Microscope is a collection of videos that show glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up. They are released every Monday and Thursday and you can see them here.

2000: a documentary science fiction Andrey Paounov \| 7 mins \| Bulgaria A black & white celluloid sci-fi film in retro style for a new world in which hand in hand man and robot would be building a better life.
Chances Are Josh Kameyer \| 13 min \| USA When a probability geek loses a $20 bill with a girl’s phone number on it, he tries to calculate where the bill, and his chances for love have ended up.
So Far and Soar Jocelyne Chaput \| 11 min \| Canada A portrait of a woman and the invisible connections that fill her world, leaving her with nothing to grasp until a solid connection is made.
After Tomorrow Emma Sullivan \| 15 min \| UK In this psychological suspense, James returns to the village of his estranged wife, and grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave.
Les Outils Simon Laganiere \| 8 min \| Canada Seeing his faithful friend quietly losing the battle against the disease, Jean- Pierre doesn’t let things go. Knowing that his friend is a true believer of the Catholic religion, he decides to invent an appearance of the Virgin Mary.
Problems Mike Paterson \| 8 min \| United Kingdom Life as a theoretical physicist can be tough, particularly when your brand new $6 billion super-collider breaks down.
Dharini Anupama Pradhan \| 21 min \| USA In the aftermath of a tragic accident, a smart, scientifically inclined teenage girl struggles to redefine her understanding of nature’s forces.
Inside Me Gintas Tirilis \| 4 min \| Canada Using cutouts, drawing, hand-held anima- tion, and voiceover, Tirilis takes viewers on a tour through the inner workings of his bodily functions – from the bugs living in his entrails to the computer in his brain.
Extropy Jonathan Sanden \| 16 min \| USA A geneticist discovers the key to stopping the aging process.
Ginger Nick Rutter & Dr Helen Cooper \| 7 min \| UK Comedian Paul Smith gets back to his red-haired roots and explores the upside of his genealogy.
In Search of Memory Petra Seeger \| 95 min \| Germany “Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,” says neuroscientist Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on the physiology of the brain’s storage of memories.
The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil Joel Garber \| 17 min \| USA A boy meets girl… boy gets shot in thehead… boy turns to God short film.Inspired by a true story.
Parallelostory Kelly Meador & Daniel Elwing \| 3 min \| USA Spend a couple minutes in the multiverseand you may find it comfortable enoughto participate in your own Parallelostory,which is just hip meta-universe slangfor “parallel love story”.
Five Graeme Hawkins \| 3 min \| UK The five senses, through the eyes and imagination of a young boy.
6ft. in 7min. Rafael Del Toro \| 14 min \| USA A short dark comedy about Rajeev Reddi, an East Indian guy, who has always has been surrounded by death. Today, on Rajeev’s 18th birthday, his parents will finally tell him why.
Dreams of a Scientist Yaron Bar \| 2 min \| Israel What do scientists dream of?
Abigail Emily Yoshida \| 13 min \| USA A teenage girl disappears under mysterious circumstances only to become an international icon overnight. When her best friend goes looking for her, she must navigate environments both real and virtual to find out what her disappearance means not only to their friendship, but to all of society.
Coagulate Mihai Grecu \| 6 min \| France Absence, presence and aquatic distortions in this choreography of fluids, mysterious forces twist the physical laws and affect the behavior of living beings in purified spaces.
The Incident at Tower 37 Chris Perry \| 11 min \| USA Day in and day out the lone steward of a water processing station monitors the tower’s activities, never realizing that the tower is slowly destroying an entire ecosystem. When two unexpected guests arrive, the tower’s operator learns the high cost of his ignorance.
Improvisations No. 2 Fred Viola \| 3 min \| USA A turning ritual under the West Side Highway through the ’technological’ dilating eye.
The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5 Chema García Ibarra \| 6 min \| Spain Robots send messages via telepathy to one man about the destruction of Earth and how he is the only person who can save it.
Skylight David Baas \| 4 min \| Canada A mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.
Skylab Mark Landsman \| 12 min \| USA It’s the summer of 1979 and 12 year-old Benj Handle has plenty to worry about – his mom’s about to get remarried, and a 90-ton chunk of NASA space trash is heading right for his house.
Malice in Wonderland: The Red Queen Theory Ed Watkins \| 5 min \| USA Sometimes, unexpected guests can very quickly become pests. What happens when you ask them to leave?
The MisInvents of Milo Weatherby William Whirity \| 23 min \| USA When young inventor, Milo Weatherby, accidentally creates a time machine, he and his best friend Levi set out on an adventure through time.
Killers of the Earth Jeff Bruno \| 2 min \| USA Two delightful aliens demolish planets for a living, and their next assignment is the earth.
Wormhole Chasers Gregory Zymet \| 4 min \| USA According to the logarithmic map of the universe, the poles are aligned—which can only mean one thing: a wormhole is about to open in the corner of Marjorie Adam’s apartment.
Universal Superkinetics Jackson Adams \| 11 min \| USA A high school freshman’s approach to a girl he likes is mirrored in a cause and effect relationship during a presentation of his science project; a rube goldberg machine.
Psych Out Tim Pyle \| 5 min \| USA Does the Helix Nebula look like a human eye… and why do we think we see wellknown objects in nebulous images from space? An astronomer and his therapist clash over the issue in this comedic but educational animated short.
Leonardo Jim Capobianco \| 10 min \| USA Leonardo da Vinci and his dream of flight. An allegory for the creative muse.
The Clone Returns Home Kanji Nakajima \| 110 min \| Japan Human cloning is no longer science fiction, but a reality. Technology is such that cloned human’s minds can be implanted and completely merged with the memories of their forbears.
Naming Pluto Ginita Jimenez \| 13 min \| United Kingdom Naming Pluto is a heartfelt account of an extraordinary event in astronomical history and an inspirational gem for youth audiences.
Animated Minds Andy Glynne \| 10 min \| England Real testimony from survivors of mental illness, combined with engaging and sometimes humorous visuals, to enter the minds of the mentally distressed.
The Moth and The Firefly Daniel Stedman and Aron Epstein \| 5 min \| USA A moth goes on a journey to find new light during a New York City blackout and finds an unlikely friend.
PCR Rap Zachary Charlop-Powers \| 4 min \| USA Biochemistry as you’ve never experienced it before: The Science Rapper makes you feel as if its your first time replicating DNA.
MEPE Claire Bardet \| 7 min \| France Investigation around killings of unusual animals by a strange private detective named Dick Mipy. We sought to better understand the evolutionary patterns of MEPE in mammals and when and how its functional regions were acquired during evolution.
Lab Waste Eva Amsen \| 4 min \| USA A brief look at waste byproducts of life science research.
The Exquisite Corpse of Science Tim Jones, Arko Olesk, Graham Paterson \| 9 min \| UK What happens when a scientist, a professional communicator, and the public are asked to think about what is important in science today… AND THEN DRAW IT? All is revealed in this film.
A Micrometer From Here Amit Zakai \| 6 min \| Israel A comic surrealistic short movie measuring daily life in single units and multiplying them by powers.
Natural Selection A.J. Korkidakis \| 10 min \| Canada An eccentric old man solves the mystery of time travel, but cannot unravel the secrets of natural selection…
Quantum Quest Dan St. Pierre & Harry Kloor 45 min \| USA Dave (Chris Pine), a photon who lives in the sun, is drawn into an epic galactic battle between Good: The Core (William Shatner) and Evil: The Void (Mark Hamill) which will determine the fate of humanity and the universe in this CGI aimated 3D/2D large format adventure.
Magnetic Movie Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhard \| 5 min \| UK The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic everchanging geometries.
Decoding Alan Turing Christopher Racster \| 17 min \| UK Turing was a brilliant Mathematician, Logician and Cryptographer. A Cambridge graduate, who was fundamental to cracking the Nazi’s Enigma Code during WWII, and created what is hailed by some as the first modern computer.
Hairytale Lisa Forrest \| 7 min \| UK Saving the world, one hair at a time.
Babbage Claire Barker \| 15 min \| UK Charles Babbage, the man who invented the first computer and failed to build it.
The Ecstasy and Agony of Planet X Chas Miller \| 13 min \| USA For 76 glorious years, Pluto remained a proud member of our solar system. Then, in 2005, a challenger to the mantle of the true ninth planet was discovered.
Big Bang Day Mike Paterson \| 8 min \| UK Adam, a PhD student at CERN, introduces us to life at the world’s largest physics lab and the excitement surrounding ‘Big Bang Day’.
What’s the Matter at CERN? Christopher Butcher \| 16 min \| Canada This short, about the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, features interviews with leading physicists and science experts.
Planes Lapse Armando Accardo \| 2 min \| Italy The premise in recording this time lapse was to capture numerous airplane trails, to see how their vapor would display when recorded at 1 frame per second.
Sizzle Randy Olson \| 84 min \| USA Olson sets out to make a global warming documentary, but first he must confront his cameraman, a global warming skeptic.

2000: a documentary science fiction

Andrey Paounov | 7 mins | Bulgaria

Chances Are

Josh Kameyer | 13 min | USA

So Far and Soar

Jocelyne Chaput | 11 min | Canada

After Tomorrow

Emma Sullivan | 15 min | UK

Les Outils

Simon Laganiere | 8 min | Canada

Problems

Mike Paterson | 8 min | United Kingdom

Dharini

Anupama Pradhan | 21 min | USA

Inside Me

Gintas Tirilis | 4 min | Canada

Extropy

Jonathan Sanden | 16 min | USA

Ginger

Nick Rutter & Dr Helen Cooper | 7 min | UK

In Search of Memory

Petra Seeger | 95 min | Germany

The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil

Joel Garber | 17 min | USA

Parallelostory

Kelly Meador & Daniel Elwing | 3 min | USA

Five

Graeme Hawkins | 3 min | UK

6ft. in 7min.

Rafael Del Toro | 14 min | USA

Dreams of a Scientist

Yaron Bar | 2 min | Israel

Abigail

Emily Yoshida | 13 min | USA

Coagulate

Mihai Grecu | 6 min | France

The Incident at Tower 37

Chris Perry | 11 min | USA

Improvisations No. 2

Fred Viola | 3 min | USA

The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5

Chema García Ibarra | 6 min | Spain

Skylight

David Baas | 4 min | Canada

Skylab

Mark Landsman | 12 min | USA

Malice in Wonderland: The Red Queen Theory

Ed Watkins | 5 min | USA

The MisInvents of Milo Weatherby

William Whirity | 23 min | USA

Killers of the Earth

Jeff Bruno | 2 min | USA

Wormhole Chasers

Gregory Zymet | 4 min | USA

Universal Superkinetics

Jackson Adams | 11 min | USA

Psych Out

Tim Pyle | 5 min | USA

Leonardo

Jim Capobianco | 10 min | USA

The Clone Returns Home

Kanji Nakajima | 110 min | Japan

Naming Pluto

Ginita Jimenez | 13 min | United Kingdom

Animated Minds

Andy Glynne | 10 min | England

The Moth and The Firefly

Daniel Stedman and Aron Epstein | 5 min | USA

PCR Rap

Zachary Charlop-Powers | 4 min | USA

MEPE

Claire Bardet | 7 min | France

Lab Waste

Eva Amsen | 4 min | USA

The Exquisite Corpse of Science

Tim Jones, Arko Olesk, Graham Paterson | 9 min | UK

A Micrometer From Here

Amit Zakai | 6 min | Israel

Natural Selection

A.J. Korkidakis | 10 min | Canada

Ginita Jimenez | 13 min | United
Kingdom

Daniel Stedman and Aron Epstein |
5 min
| USA

Zachary Charlop-Powers | 4 min |
USA