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Made as part of a series exploring the kinds of complexities in various domains of the physical-natural world, through form, this film turns to the microscopic Systematic cellular structures lead to intricately patterned leaves, and diverse appendages from flagella to cilia, along with the properties of water at these scales, result in movements, some composed and assertive, some instinctive and ambiguous, all the while enigmatic and otherworldly The speed and polar coordinates of the microbes are mapped to the compounded frequencies and amplitudes of the synthesized sound Five leaves were scanned, reassembled, and overlaid, frame-wise, based on the transformed coordinates of the microbes from circular space to that of the leaves' dimensions, resulting in apparent motion while retaining some of the glitchy artifacts from the process of assembly

Year

2025

Duration

10 min

Country

United States, United States