Science: It's Alive!

75 min.

A collection of applied animation for the advancement of the noble fields of the sciences, animated films that have been inspired by scientific progress or films that explain complex material in a comprehensive manner.


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They Might Be Giants: What Is a Shooting Star?

Director: 
Pascal Campion
 / 
United States, 2009
2 min.

Music video for American rock band They Might Be Giants.

Student Film

Outside the Box

Director: 
Joseph Pelling
 / 
United Kingdom, 2009
2 min.

Two pretentious intellectuals try to prove to each other that their thinking process is more advanced than the other. 

Dandelion: Making Sense of Ones and Zeros

Director: 
Johannes Weiland
 / 
Germany, 2008
3 min.

A small educational film on how an image is scanned.

Student Film

Nature by Numbers

Director: 
Christóbal Vila
 / 
Spain, 2010
4 min.

A short movie inspired by numbers, geometry and nature.

Is 1 + 1 altijd 2?

Director: 
Coen Rens 
Elte Hartland
 / 
The Netherlands, 2009
2 min.

A fun little explanimation made for Wise Bits.

Röyksopp - Remind Me

Director: 
Ludovic Houplain 
Hervé de Crécy
 / 
France, 2002
4 min.

Music video for Norwegian duo Röyksopp.

The Hybrid Union

Director: 
Serguei Kouchnerov
 / 
United States
 / 
Ukraine, 2009
5 min.

Somewhere in the imaginary land of cyberdesert, two abstract characters, Plus and Minus struggle with a dependency on an obsolete source of energy and as a result they create the Hybrid Union. 

Student Film

Cerebral Dichotomy

Director: 
Florian Juri
 / 
Austria, 2009
2 min.

Most people have found themselves in situations where they have got to choose between two things. But sometimes that seems quite hard, as if two mysterious inner voices fight against each other. Our work deals with this topic to give science a new preposterous explanation about the human brain.

Towards a Living Artificial Kidney

Director: 
ICMS Animation Studio
 / 
The Netherlands, 2010
1 min.

Explanimation on how an artificial kidney might be created.

Wie is de Oermoeder?

Director: 
Mathijs Stegink 
Michaël Veerman
 / 
The Netherlands, 2009
2 min.

A short film on where we're all from.

Student Film

The Origin of Mass

Director: 
Aleksander Rodic
 / 
United States, 2009
2 min.

An experiment inspired by demoscene and sub-atomic particle collision images.

Student Film

Big Bang Big Boom

Director: 
BLU
 / 
Italy, 2010
10 min.

Argentinian street artist Blu delves into evolution and its possible consequences in an unscientific wall-painted animation. Blu painted everything on sidewalks, buildings, beaches and pipes for this ingenious stop-motion film which is as grandiose as it is bold and critical. 

Student Film

Evolution

Director: 
Olov Burman
 / 
Sweden, 2009
1 min.

Air ID for Cartoon network. Evolution turned backwards to discover the origin of life.

Student Film

Duelity

Director: 
Marcos Ceravolo 
Ryan Uhrich
 / 
Canada, 2007
3 min.

'Duelity' is a split-screen animation that tells both sides of the story of Earth’ s origins in a dizzying and provocative journey through the history and language that marks human thought.

Student Film

The Order Electrus

Director: 
Floris Kaayk
 / 
The Netherlands, 2005
8 min.

Nature adapts, even to human actions that seem to destroy everything. The amazing power of evolution has given birth to a new species of insect. Their ideal habitats are old industrial locations. Some call them electrical insects, others simply speak of a miraculous phenomenon, or even better, a self supporting order; the Order Electrus.

Student Film

Fauna Sutra

Director: 
Johan Klungel
 / 
The Netherlands, 2004
4 min.

An informative, yet bizarre short about some of the most bizarre mating habits in the animal kingdom. What would our world look like if humans behaved like this?

Student Film

Loom

Director: 
Jan Bitzer 
Ilija Brunck 
Csaba Letay
 / 
Germany
 / 
United States, 2010
5 min.

The story of a moth being drowned in nature's complex cycles. 

Fried Egg Jelly

Director: 
CreatureCast
 / 
United States, 2010
4 min.

An animated podcast featuring the fried egg jelly, the moon jelly, parasitic amphipods, and some crabs.

Noggin - Bacteria

Director: 
Head Gear Animation
 / 
United States, 1999
1 min.

Bacteria-inspired TV ident for Noggin.

REXIN-G: Mechanism of Action

Director: 
Hybrid Medical Animation
 / 
United States, 2010
2 min.

Explanimation for REGIN G, a a tumor-targeted genetic medication for cancer.

James: The Inside Story of a Prescription Drug

Director: 
Dennis Van Waerebeke
 / 
France, 2010
4 min.

In a simplistic and playful animated fashion, this film retraces the course of a medicine and goes inside the world of the prescription drug.

Have a Taste of Nuclear Waste!

Director: 
Jon Frickey 
Till Penzek
 / 
Germany, 2008
2 min.

Mr Atom is back! The uber-cute mascot of the nuclear power lobby once again takes a stand on atomic energy.

They Might Be Giants: I Am a Palaeontologist

Director: 
Sean McBride
 / 
United States, 2009
3 min.

I love diggin' in the dirt with just a pick and brush.