From August 19 – September 4 we will exhibit public projections in the city center of Cairns, Australia as part of Cairns Festival 2011. Under the direction of Morphologic collaborator Michael F. McPeake, Underwater Worlds celebrates Cairns’ intimate relationship with the coral reef. Showing alongside our films is Australia’s seminal underwater documentary Invisible Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, shot in 1961 by Noel and Kitty Monkman off the coast of Cairns.
This Saturday night (June 11) we will exhibit our film ‘Helios‘ at Digital Graffiti in Alys Beach, Florida. Digital Graffiti is a unique event in which the small town of Alys Beach (a town painted entirely white to best serve this annual night of projections) invites video artists from around the world to display their work on the town’s facades.
This past week our short film ‘Oyster Vision’ was included in the second episode of Adult Swim‘s new ten-minute mind-boggle of a show, Off the Air. The episode is titled ‘Food’, click here to check it out at the Adult Swim site (recommended) or view below via the DIY YouTube rip.
This weekend we will exhibit a selection of our Natural History films and projections at the Miami Science Museum in celebration of the inaugural Miami Underwater Festival. The festival is a formal offshoot of the annual Festival Mondiale de l’Image Sous-Marine (World Festival of Underwater Images), in Marseilles, France. Over the weekend, the fest will screen a selection of prize-winning films from the 37th Festival Mondiale de l’Image Sous-Marines.
We are psyched to share that a selection of our Natural History films will screen on ATP TV during this upcoming weekend’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival as curated by Animal Collective, in Minehead, UK. This will be the first international exhibition of our physical work; read more about the festival here.
‘Man O War’
Physalia physalis
Film + Aquarium: Morphologic
Original Soundtrack: Geologist
In this special installment of our Natural History film series, Geologist soundtracks a macroscopic view of a Portuguese man-o-war’s beautiful, yet highly venomous tentacles.
The man-o-war is often mistaken as a jellyfish, but this is not the case. It does not swim, but is instead propelled by the winds, tides and currents across the ocean’s surface. In fact, a man-o-war is not even a single organism, but an entire colony of organisms called siphonophores, that live together as a singular unit. They are found floating across all of the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans. Even more impressive is that the man-o-war colony is comprised of four different types of polyps, called zooids, that each serve a different purpose to the overall functioning of the colony.
Above is a fresh video for ANR‘s ambient track ‘Dead Gulf’, which appeared as the B-Side of our ‘Big Problem’ 7″ on Discosoma Records this past January. The song soundscapes a remixed clip of our ‘Corynactis viridis‘ Natural History film from last year. Video artist Jamie Harley reworks the original clip, effectively transforming the 8mm corallimorph polyp into a anthropomorphic troubadour.
