Schismogenesis

Art Film

Runtime 4:51

Georgios Galanopoulos, Greece

Schismogenesis—from the Greek σχίσμα (skhisma, “cleft”) and γένεσις (genesis, “generation, creation”)—is a cinematic exploration of division and creation at the scale of the universe. Shot across diverse landscapes in Greece, Italy, the Maldives, and Dubai, and interwoven with personal cymatics photography and video, the film unfolds as a meditation on rupture, resonance, and emergence.

Rooted in cybernetic systems theory, the project investigates the nature of positive feedback loops: cycles in which each action amplifies the other, spiraling toward disorder and entropy. Left unchecked, such loops drive systems toward collapse. Yet within this instability lies the paradoxical beauty of creation—the birth of form through the friction of opposites.

Through image and sound, Schismogenesis seeks to illuminate the delicate balance between conflict and union, entropy and order, chaos and genesis. In the realm of quantum mechanics, all possible realities coexist, though humans perceive but one. This work ventures into that hidden multiplicity, where polarity and duality are not contradictions, but the fundamental laws of evolution.

At its heart, Schismogenesis suggests that life and consciousness are not mere byproducts of matter, but primal forces of the universe itself—active principles that grow through complexity, opposition, and unification.An event will disrupt everything he thought he knew, plunging him into an infernal spiral...