Liquid Crystals [Cristaux liquides]

Release Year
1978
Runtime
6m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Jean Painlevé
Liquid Crystals

Title cards introduce images we watch without narration; they are displays of shape and color. François de Roubaix's electronic music accompanies these images, photographed under a polarizing microscope. The crystals appear to move like tiny organisms: small four-part fans share the frame with flowing lines of pink. Multiple patterns appear side by side.

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