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    Pasta-making stunningly distills the connection between nature and craft

    Light Plate transforms the iconic, idyllic Tuscan landscape into a richly visual palette that contrasts the old with the new, and urban bustle with bucolic calm. Using hand-processed black-and-white film, the US filmmaker Josh Gibson treats the beauty of an Italian countryside and the sensuousness of the pasta-making process with a light, rhythmic touch to achieve a soothingly pleasing abstraction of nature and craft.

    Director: Josh Gibson

    5 March 2015
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    When a decomposing, century-old film becomes a haunting meditation on memory

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    A sunflower with drooping yellow petals surrounded by green leaves in a field, bathed in natural sunlight.

    videoBiology

    Like birds and flowers, humans go to all kinds of trouble to stay in the light

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    videoFilm and visual culture

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    A modern floating staircase casts shadows on a white wall in a minimalist interior with natural light.

    videoArt

    How humble Quaker origins inspire James Turrell’s otherworldly light art

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    videoAstronomy

    Raw solar-storm footage is the punk-rock antidote to sleek James Webb imagery

    6 minutes

    A dramatic photo of a snowy mountain slope at night with scattered skiers casting long shadows on the illuminated path.

    videoNature and landscape

    A ski mountain as a stunning ethereal reflection on how we move through nature

    14 minutes

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    videoChemistry

    As above, so below – an artist finds the cosmos in a microscopic chemical reaction

    6 minutes

    Blurred night photo of an urban road with bright lights, underpasses, and buildings, conveying a sense of speed and motion.

    videoCities

    A night-time drive through Tokyo transforms into a dizzying sensory experience

    2 minutes

    A starry night sky over a forest with a lake reflecting the trees and stars, and faint lights visible through the trees.

    videoNature and landscape

    What else do we lose when we lose sight of the stars?

    3 minutes