Space and Time

• Spacetime - Documentary Film (Runtime 12:00) Jeroen Hoekstra, Netherlands

  A movie about the Einstein telescope and the future of gravitational wave detection.

  The Dutch Black Hole Consortium is closely involved in the plans to build a giant underground telescope capable of detecting gravitational waves, the Einstein Telescope.

  These waves can, among other things, provide insights into the origins of the universe and the properties of black holes. Since gravitational waves and the specific telescopes that can measure them are not yet widely known to the public (unlike the "classic" optical telescope often seen in alien movies), the DBHC consortium wanted to make them accessible through a film for a broad audience.

  This film clearly illustrates how these new telescopes effectively give Earth "ears," in addition to the "eyes" it already has with classical telescopes for visible light. This way, even the darkest regions of the universe become visible.

  The film was developed for the Earth Theater of the DISCOVERY MUSEUM in Kerkrade and adapted for regular projection on a 4K or HD screen. 

• Pulsars - Art Film (Runtime 1:00) Carlos Alberto Pereira da Silva, Brazil

  Blending pulsar sounds with elements of everyday life, this short film seeks to craft a poetic narrative through words, sounds, and images inspired by the objects observed in radioastronomy: pulsars.

  Using the programming language Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/), Pulsars creates sounds with cadences similar to real pulsars, as well as the various musical backgrounds featured in the film.

  Real pulsar sounds from three sources, obtained by the University of Manchester, are subtly incorporated to enhance the ambiguous meaning of the images, shifting between themes of life and the Cosmos.

• Neutrinos and Andyrtau - Documentary Film (Runtime 17:48) Maryam Makhieva, France/Russian Federation

  Film about the neutrino observatory in the mountains of the Caucasus into Andyrtau mountain. This laboratory is unique in Russia, this observatory is one of the most profound, is located at a depth of 4000 m. The scientists collect information for about 40 years, catch a ghost particle neutrinos which is being emitted by the Sun and stars of galaxy.

• Yggdrasil - Fiction Film (Runtime 9:59) John Sizemen Watts & Jean Charles Pitrel, France

  In a desolate world, far removed from our time, a young man struggles to survive. As the only human he knows of, he has no idea who he is or where he came from. His days are spent searching and hunting for food, and scavenging "relics" from the world before.

  His companion is a survival electronic unit: U.N.I.T (Neural Unit for Interventions and Tactics), his only friend, on whom our protagonist relies to understand his universe, educate himself, and survive.

  An event will disrupt everything he thought he knew, plunging him into an infernal spiral...

• Poong - Fiction Film (Runtime 1:40) Laurent Hiroyuki Rohrbasser, Robin Szymczak, Vinh Nguyen, Switzerland

  A failed trick shot attempt leads to the adventure of a ping pong ball