CERN is the largest gathering of knowledge in the history of mankind, larger even than the Apollo moon missions. Thousands of scientists are lowering hundreds of tonnes of equipment into a deep underground cavern in order to examine almost infinitely tiny fragments of atoms. ‘When I made the final prints of the Large Hadron Collider, they resembled, cupolas, crop circles or Tibetan mandalas.’ (SN)
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Yota
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My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points
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The World as Will and Representation
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Particle Projection
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Geo Goo
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The Surging Sea of Humanity
A stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893 turns into a movie, into an enormous rugged 3-D landscape. -
Manifest Destiny
Silk-screened over an existing photograph, these pictures suggest a barren desert where some of the Mars mobiles have been tested. A study of close-up -
The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success
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His Affair with Time
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Aspect Ratio (Fisher)
Fisher deconstructs the machinery of cinema. This conceptual work consists of a series of mirrors cut to the proportions of various formats of film fr
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- -
- Director
- Simon Norfolk
