How big is big? This spectacular film (also made for 3D projection) takes us on a journey from the moon’s surface to the far reaches of the visible universe. Combining cutting edge scientific astronomical data and simulations with stunning animation, it brings the universe to life.
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.
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Optra Field IV
An elegant, dichromatic time-based drawing that explores the propinquity between space, time, movement, perception and opposites.
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The Life Size Zoetrope
The celebratory life story of one man, from the celebration of creativity to its eventual loneliness, regret and repetition.
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Flat Earth
A ‘desktop documentary’ which uses satellite imagery found online and voices of bloggers to re-establish what distances between people
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Staubkaskade
Fractals provide the mathematical tool set to describe complex structures. Dust is the mathematical description for a set of non-connected points.<
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Energy Shifts
This animation represents a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations.
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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.
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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 picknic
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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 act
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Electron Jumps
An updated visualisation of a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations.
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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
- Australia
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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