Planktonium | The Art of Connection: People, Places, Plants (shorts program) | 2023 ReFrame Film Festival

2023 ReFrame Film Festival

The Art of Connection: People, Places, Plants (shorts program)

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The Art of Connection: People, Places, Plants is a shorts program; multiple films are part of this screening. The collective runtime is 74 minutes.

Nature’s wonders not visible to the naked eye are revealed in a documentary shot through a microscope lens. It shows to the viewer various kinds of plankton, a ubiquitous form of life, without which life on Earth wouldn’t exist. The vivacious movements of the water microorganisms are accompanied by the music of Jana Winderen, a Norweigan artist, composed using the sounds of water organisms, waves and icebergs.

Watch this film as part of the shorts program "The Art of Connection: People, Places, Plants" in the ReFrame Virtual Theatre.

Year
2021
Runtime
15 minutes

Director
Jan van Ijken

6 films in package

Inuktitut Dialects

Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut.

Dear Mr. Dudley

Dear Mr. Dudley follows a series of hand-written letters between the filmmaker and his estranged father.

"A Hundred Joys" is a film about the main intersection of Toronto’s East Chinatown, a community whose stores spread out onto the streets.

Burnt. Land of Fire

This short documentary captures life in a little village in Calabria in southern Italy.

The breathtaking landscapes of Western Sahara don’t seem to have a memory. Yet, the eyes of its people bear enduring signs of the tragedy that has marked their existence for decades. Through small details, fragments of a lasting conflict find their way to the screen.

Planktonium is a short film about the secret universe of living microscopic plankton. These stunningly beautiful, diverse and numerous organisms are invisible to the naked eye, but are drifting in every water around us.

Protected ContentThis content can only be viewed in authorized regions: Canada.

The Art of Connection: People, Places, Plants is a shorts program; multiple films are part of this screening. The collective runtime is 74 minutes.

Nature’s wonders not visible to the naked eye are revealed in a documentary shot through a microscope lens. It shows to the viewer various kinds of plankton, a ubiquitous form of life, without which life on Earth wouldn’t exist. The vivacious movements of the water microorganisms are accompanied by the music of Jana Winderen, a Norweigan artist, composed using the sounds of water organisms, waves and icebergs.

Watch this film as part of the shorts program "The Art of Connection: People, Places, Plants" in the ReFrame Virtual Theatre.

Year
2021
Runtime
15 minutes

Director
Jan van Ijken