Five years have gone since Irenebrination wished for a better integration between the scientific and creative disciplines for example via a fashion shoot in a scientific research laboratory. Since then lots of things happened and now it is not a rare practice for fashion designers to go and visit research laboratories together with other professional figures (such as architects) to look for inspiration (think about designer Iris Van Herpen visiting CERN with architect Philip Beesley).
There are actually even projects that are currently pushing further the links between the performing arts and science such as a dance and opera film entitled "Symmetry" shot inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The film will be screened during the CineGlobe International Film Festival at the Globe of Science and Innovation next week (on Tuesday 24th March, at 8.00 p.m.; address: 385 Route de Meyrin, Meyrin, Switzerland)
Directed by Ruben van Leer, starring choreographer and dancer Lukas Timulak and Soprano Claron McFadden, and with music by Joep Franssens & Henry Vega, "Symmetry" focuses on a CERN researcher who is working on the theory of everything and ends up transforming himself into the smallest moving particle he was looking for.
While some scenes were shot inside the CERN and show dancers in suits and protective blue helmets moving around the spaces surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), other parts transport people in digital landscapes or in real spaces (the scenes shot in Uyuni in Bolivia, the largest mineral landscape in the world and the only place on earth visible to the human eye from the moon, represent the moment after the big bang) where the love story between the main characters Claron and Lukas unravels and where the search for the word's smallest particle becomes a philosophical rather than just a scientific matter.
The result is a mix of opera, dance, digital arts and science/physics focused on the giant particle accelerator. The opera has also got links with the actual researches that are being carried out at the LHC.
The opera is accompanied by the documentary "Symmetry Unravelled", a film by Juliette Stevens with Dr. Michael Doser, Prof. John Ellis (CERN) and Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf (Dir. IAS Princeton).
If you are looking for a different kind of film about science, check out the programme of the CineGlobe International Film Festival at the Globe of Science and Innovation (until 29th March 2015). The theme of this year’s edition is "Convergence" and tackles art, cinema and science through several films that will be screened inside a geodesic dome, an installation that references the mysteries of dark matter.
The event also includes a series of workshops (How to make a pinhole camera with a tetrapak; the Art of the Timelapse; and Stop-motion animation) and interactions such as an eight-month Hackathon challenge to tell stories about science using the Oculus Rift.
The festival will conclude with a screening of Bram Conjaerts' documentary "The Ring", that follows the 27 km length of the LHC ring above ground and analyses the views of the local inhabitants about it. It looks like our wish for an integration between scientific and creative disciplines has more or less been granted.
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