MICRO EMPIRE
… moving on from the Macro Kingdom, we pass through the portal of a microscope to venture into the Micro Empire … surrounding us … inhabiting us…
Stranger than fiction … molecular conflict and mitochondrial warfare … a heart-stopping, subcellular epic … a truly microcinematic experience …
Austria 2012 / 2:00 / Director: Clemens Wirth
THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE
This film is a single-channel moving image work which explores humankind’s place in nature through the science and technology of CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva.
United Kingdom 2018 / 13:00 / Director: Semiconductor
THE GARDEN OF THE FUTURE
The father of neuroscience Santiago Ramón y Cajal wakes up one day with magnified vision. Based on the short story “The Corrected Pessimist” by Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
Spain 2022 / 4:00 / Director: Alexis Gambis
GERMANO
Germano paints a portrait of a scientist. The film features Dr. Germano Cecere, a geneticist from Italy who runs a lab at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The film takes us on a journey both inside and outside of the lab, allowing us to get an intimate look into his world and thereby gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a scientist.
France 2022 / 8:00 / Director: Nona Griffiny
NO TWO PLANTS
To know every plant, even when time is of the essence. To produce careful work, even in the face of systemic, external, and internal pressures. To maintain joy, even when the future looks bleak. To know and love corn. A journey across time, space, and along the history of the maize plant, No Two Plants explores resilience and different ways of knowing.
United States 2024 / 6:00 / Director: Penelope Lindsay, Nora Long
EINSTEIN-ROSEN
Summer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him – at least not for now.
Spain 2017 / 9:00 / Director: Olga Osorio
I INVITE YOU
A sensory journey that illustrates the challenges that the brain faces in our everyday conversations, where the linguistic signal is often unclear, disrupted or obstructed.
India, United States 2021 / 5:00 / Director: Arianna Zuanazzi, Yashaswini Raghunandan
THE RESEARCHER’S ARTICLE
How do scientists publish their discoveries? From first idea to publication, this film takes you through the long, painstaking, but ultimately elating process of a discovery in physics.
France 2014 / 7:00 / Director: Charlotte Arene
BLANK
Blank reconstructs from an artistic perspective an experiment in which mice with Alzheimer’s disease fail – even after repeated training – to remember where the island is concealed under the surface of the white water in a white tub. They are used to test whether new substances can repair the defects in the brain.
Germany 2011 / 7:00 / Director: Boris Hars-Tschachotin
FALL INTO THE GALAXY
Every night across the globe, billions of zooplankton migrate from the depths of the ocean to its surface. Fall into the Galaxy offers an illuminating glimpse into the enigmatic early developmental stages of cephalopods, while immersing viewers in the unique morphology and behaviors of these creatures in the open ocean at night.
Philippines 2017 / 2:00 / Director: Jialing Cai
DREAMER OF A FINAL THEORY
This animated conversation with the late, great theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, Steven Weinberg, is based on excerpts from interviews recorded in 2020 and 2021.
United States 2021 / 2:00 / Director: Molly Murphy
CHASING THE WORLD'S LARGEST NUMBER
A personal, poetic and philosophic math road trip through California, guiding the viewer through the mental journey it is to grasp truly large numbers, via the universe, human cells, travel planning and paradoxes of the infinite.
Norway 2014 / 22:02 / Director: Christian Holm-Glad