Magnetic Movie

Semiconductors: Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt

IndieLisboa 2008 • Laboratório

United Kingdom, United States of America, Experimental, 2007, 4′

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries. All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries. Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

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