On Target
While life goes its own way, humans create all sorts of tools, machines and weapons that obey mathematically determined courses. The impact of this hubris is fascinating and scathing.
In this combined programme
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I’ll Be Late for Dinner
A rhythmic montage of photographs made by the Cassini satellite in orbit around Saturn, including the ‘imperfect’ images that never made it into the p
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The Exquisite Corpus
After a deceptively quiet prelude, Tscherkassky tears the integrity of naked bodies to pieces and aims our voyeuristic gaze completely at the medium i
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The Miniaturist
A contemporary variation on Hiroshima, mon amour, but with a strong emphasis on the use of colour and with the voice of nuclear physicist J. Robert Op
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Scales in the Spectrum of Space
A dive into the collective memory of the City of Chicago. In a very associative way, Silva samples 35 films to compile a mini city symphony.
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They Were Just People: an Excerpt
Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations: an eyewitness report of atom bom
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Between the Bullet and the Hole
During World War II, it was mainly women who, as human computers, made calculations for ballistic tests and early computers.