By pairing a series of beautiful images with just a few lines of poetry, Heliotropes shows how patterns repeat themselves at different levels of nature, whether we know it or not.
Like birds and flowers, humans go to all kinds of trouble to stay in the light
Director: Michael Langan
21 February 2014
videoEcology and environmental sciences
Racing rising tides, volunteers work to save a bird on the brink
25 minutes
videoEcology and environmental sciences
Close-ups reveal how caterpillars live long enough to cocoon
9 minutes
videoBiology
What would it mean if we were able to ‘speak’ with whales?
65 minutes
videoBiology
For 3 billion years, life was unicellular. Why did it start to collaborate?
4 minutes
videoBiology
Dive deep into an egg cell to see how ageing reboots when a new life begins
2 minutes
videoNature and landscape
Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery chart the turn of the seasons
7 minutes
videoMathematics
After centuries of trying, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour
20 minutes
videoHistory of science
Insect aesthetics – long viewed as pests, in the 16th century bugs became beautiful
8 minutes
videoLove and friendship
What does it mean to say goodbye to a creature that doesn’t know you’re leaving?
13 minutes