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The Nightly News II by Candy Chang + James A Reeves

❝ The Nightly News is a participatory installation that invites visitors to delve into the scenes of anxiety, desire, and possibility that fill our heads each night. Devoted to the intensely private yet universal symbols delivered to us each night by forces beyond our control, The Nightly News shows us that we’re all deeply weird creatures bound together by nerves, fantasy, and the unknown. ❞ *

The Nightly News II

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2023/04/24/the-nightly-news-ii/

❝ Chemical Somnia is a cross-continental collaboration between filmmaker Scott Portingale and composer Gorkem Sen. The film transports the viewer into chemical dimensions, exploring phase transition, fluid dynamics, and chemical reactions. Timelapse and high speed photography were used on a macro scale to capture these elemental relationships in less than a square inch area on a petri dish. ❞ *

❝ My favorite imagery to create was the metal displacement sequences. A replacement reaction occurs when a metal-aqueous liquid and a solid metal are paired. In Chemical Somnia, I used zinc and an aqueous compound, silver nitrate. This reaction to an unaided eye doesn’t look like much but under a small amount of magnification, a rich textured world emerges. When looking into the monitor a sense of awe is definitely present. Events like this are happening around us all the time beyond the narrow reach of our unaided senses. ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2023/01/06/chemical-somnia-is-a-cross-continental/

❝ The film is credited to [Marcel] Duchamp’s female alter ego Rrose Sélavy, with his frequent Dadaist collaborator Man Ray serving as cinematographer. Like much of Duchamp’s oeuvre, Anémic Cinéma is a peculiar and somewhat opaque provocation, hinting at symmetries or parallels between words and images in its composition and near-palindromic title. ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/28/the-film-is-credited-to-marcel-duchamps/

❝ In many parts of the world, a warm summer evening sets the stage for a familiar sight: the lightning bug. Through a phenomenon called bioluminescence, these winged beetles generate chemical reactions in a part of their abdomen known as the lantern to produce flickers of light. Of more than 2,000 species found throughout the world, only a handful coordinate their flashes into patterns and are known as synchronous fireflies. Filmmaker Sriram Murali captured a rare gathering of billions of these insects at the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in western Tamil Nadu, India. […] For the past ten years, Murali has been working to raise awareness of light pollution through a series of documentaries. Focusing on the reserve and its nighttime fauna, he hopes to highlight the significant role that darkness plays in the natural world. ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/25/in-many-parts-of-the-world-a-warm-summer/