Fractals provide the mathematical tool set to describe complex structures including clouds, stock-exchange prices or the distribution of matter in outer space. The easiest way towards understanding them is to start experimenting oneself.
Also in this combined programme
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Sinus Aestum
The title refers to the name of a lunar sea. Accordingly, this piece is comprised of arcs, or waves, moving through unstable states. -
Optra Field IV
An elegant, dichromatic time-based drawing that explores the propinquity between space, time, movement, perception and opposites. -
The Life Size Zoetrope
The celebratory life story of one man, from the celebration of creativity to its eventual loneliness, regret and repetition. -
Flat Earth
A ‘desktop documentary’ which uses satellite imagery found online and voices of bloggers to re-establish what distances between people mean. -
Energy Shifts
This animation represents a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations. -
Three Blueprints (Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta)
266144 photos are extremely compressed in clusters again and again to almost unimaginable nano-dimensions; then filtered to their last essence. -
Bigger than Big
How big is big? This spectacular film takes us on a journey from the Moon’s surface to the far reaches of the visible universe. -
Powers of Ten
This short documentary film depicts the relative scale of the Universe. A camera reproduces in equal steps the picture of a couple during a picknick. -
Land of Cockaigne
In one continuous camera movement, Reupke presents a god’s eye view of the Sussex Downs, punctuated with choreographed incidents of human activity. -
Electron Jumps
An updated visualisation of a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations. -
Iris Out
Composed of single frames from sequences of expanding or contracting irises, this video was reformatted for different aspect ratios.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
